Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Replacing the 10-odd Gen Ed course requirements split between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, the Core introduced the notion of teaching "approaches to knowledge" in more specific areas including foreign studies, the arts, and "social and philosophical" reasoning. The Core's philosophy has been translated by administrators to mean non-departmental courses focusing not so much on facts as analysis, not so much on teaching a distribution requirement as teaching a "form of inquiry...
...many faculty members, to teach in the Core is to commit an unnatural act," says Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez, who heads the Foreign Cultures subcommittee, one of eight that make up the Core Committee...
...member and North Yard Senior Advisor Ginger Mackay-Smith expressed concern that the foreign language clause would force candidates to enroll in an intense language course during their first semester...
...avoid that problem, the CUE decided to extend sophomore status to candidates who have "satisfactorily completed one semester and are enrolled in the second semester of a foreign language...
Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) and Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) announced that they would oppose the Tower nomination, with Pell's decision a disappointment to the White House, which had worked to win over the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...