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...which last year could be petitioned to count for the current Moral Reasoning requirement—as an acceptable scientific general education course is dubious at best. In our view, such a course places too much emphasis on the report’s third, less significant, criterion for a Science and Technology general education course—that it “frame this material in the context of social issues.” In fact, we hope that as the Faculty reconsiders the general education proposal, it drops this third criterion altogether. While certainly courses should be created?...
...equip students for life outside of the academy, content must take precedence over method. By jettisoning the focus on historical approaches, the new requirement opens the possibility of choosing from a variety of disciplines with subject matter as the ultimate criterion for inclusion in the list of approved courses. History courses outside of Robinson Hall are not neglected; the report cites courses from current history, sociology and Social Analysis offerings as ones that would fulfill the requirement...
...needs to put faith into the ability of undergraduates to choose what is right. There must be a large enough menu so that a market for courses develops, allowing the pedagogical cream to rise to the top and allowing students to tailor the curriculum to their interests. A good criterion is that no student with a requirement left in their senior year should be pigeonholed into taking something they are not enthusiastic about.We are also unsure whether the 10 categories specified by the report are the best divisions to fulfill the report’s guiding philosophy. Several criticisms have...
...Carnival of the Vanities.” Dressed up in blazers and smacking of complacent compassion for every cause that crosses their path, candidates advertise their credentials and “their vision for a new UC.” Besides personal networking, the main electoral criterion is the pre-election debate: essentially, how effectively a candidate can give evasive answers to difficult and often irrelevant questions.To an extent, this is the price one pays for holding popular elections. In the case of the UC, however, the whole situation is tragicomic, because the stakes are so low. The UC?...
...York Times noted in August, the book is the latest controversy in a growing literary conspiracy in which powerhouse companies like Viking use an author’s pedigree rather than their talent as their principle publishing criterion. Resist the urge to make another Opal Mehta joke...