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...Ed??s stated missions is to tie what students learn in the classroom to their lives in the present...
...course “Understanding Darwinism,” students will learn Darwinian history and engage in debates about evolution during section. The class will count for Science of Living Systems—Gen Ed??s adaptation of the Core’s Science B requirement...
...Remember—Gen Ed??s not starting in the fall, so there’s not a fixed number of courses we absolutely need to have,” he said in an interview on Friday. “Jay would be telling [interim Dean of the College] David [R. Pilbeam] and me if it were not on schedule...
...Standing Committee on General Education has chosen the class of 2013 to be the first to graduate entirely under the new program. Given that Gen Ed??s goal is a “curriculum that is responsive to the conditions of the twenty-first century,” students graduating before 2013 are left to wonder: are we receiving—gasp—a twentieth century education? And more importantly, is the search for a new “rationale” behind educational breadth a subtle admission of just how badly practical flaws undermine the current...
...Unfortunately, however, Gen Ed is a program not yet ready for prime time. If we wished it to be merely a rearrangement of the same courses into new boxes, the proposed system could start today. But this would not be true reform. Gen Ed??s success will not derive from a creative reassignment of today’s Core courses. Rather, if it achieves its aims, the program’s legacy will be a curriculum that integrates innovative teaching methods, and focuses on the twenty-first century world. Accomplishing such lofty goals requires a period during which...