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Bowersock also appears to be properly cautious about the major issue he will immediately face upon assuming his new position--the possible formation of a core curriculum to replace the General Education program. Although he predicts major changes, Bowersock said last week that he is not satisfied with the structure of the core subject areas proposed by the Task Force on the Core Curriculum. Hopefully, he will consider another point--that devising the elaborate structure of disciplines for a core curriculum is not nearly as important as simply providing general introductory courses that students will want to take without being...
Bowersock also said that if the Faculty moves later this spring to form small committees to investigate the feasibility of a core curriculum in more detail, it would be appropriate to have students on the committees. Such concern for student input is encouraging. In his new job, Bowersock will be chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education and thus will serve as a vital channel through which student opinion can be communicated to the Faculty. He will have a continuing responsibility, then, to understand and articulate student views. A final evaluation of his appointment will be based largely...
...does not, for example, grapple at length with the core curriculum proposal, a major issue in education at the College. In part this may be because he does not wish to openly alter the course of the current faculty debates on the subject, but it is somewhat surprising that he does no more than reiterate the general sentiment that general education needs some kind of boost. Nor does he offer any solutions to the problems the Ed and Divinity School are facing, with graduates that are an odd cross between professionals and academics, or the Med School's problems with...
...student proposal lists seven areas that would make up a core curriculum that are similar to the eight areas proposed by the task force, but it advocates a two-for-one bypass rule to allow students to get core credit for departmental courses...
Overall, the core curriculum issue is not developing into a question about how to categorize the core areas. Most people agree that the present trinity of Nat Sci, Soc Sci and Hum are too broad, and that a greater number of smaller categories are desirable...