Word: eds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...originally conceived, General Education was an attempt to give the student a general but still comprehensive intellectual background. Unfortunately, the system soon began to falter; as the number of Gen Ed courses multiplied, their relationship to the general, introductory goals of the program became more dubious. In recent years such courses as "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" found their way into the Gen Ed listings -- while of undoubted intellectual merit (at least usually), they didn't quite seem designed to produce a class of Renaissance men and women. Moreover, certain other courses sprang up that appeared designed to accomodate...
That was when the gloves came off. The Task force's report set in motion the two-year sequence of events that culminated in last spring's Faculty vote to replace Gen Ed with a more detailed Core Curriculum. Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the architect of the Core proposal, calls the curriculum reform "an attempt to redirect the attention of the Faculty to the concerns of undergraduates"; others, such as Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, termed it "a return to 1953 General Education," nothing more than a stiffening of existing requirements...
...step attack had undergone mitosis, not to mention a considerable mutation. The final Faculty Council report reshuffled Wilson's original five areas, and then split each in two--effectively making each student reponsible for a half-course in eight out of ten subdivisions of the Core. As in Gen Ed, the student would not have to take courses in the Core area affiliated with his or her field of concentration...
...Faculty's timetable for implementatioin of the Core calls for the committee to begin offering the first Core courses in the fall of 1979. From then on the number of Core coureses will increase as standard Gen Ed offerings decrease in number, or are incorporated into the Core program. By the time the Class of '82 are seniors, they will have very few Gen Ed holdovers from which to choose; this menas that they must choose carefully when to take the courses that will fulfill the Gen Ed requirements, as the same offerings may not be around for long...
Nonetheless, the transition from Gen Ed to Core involves a careful study of which courses might fit the detailed guidlines the Faculty has prescribed for Core courses. The final say on this rests with the Core committees; however, Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, is in the middle of a preliminary study that shows that close to half the approximately 100 Gen Ed courses might, with modifications, qualify for inclusion in the Core. "This is clearly just a ballpark figure," he warns, stressing that the study is aimed mainly at determining fiscal effects of the increased teaching load that...