Word: gen
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...flexibility that the recommendations are advocating for undergrads seems to me a very good thing. The particulars of how that gets framed and how it gets implemented within the curriculum is for the faculty at large to decide. But in principal, it seems to me the Gen Ed committee did a valiant job,” Buckler said...
Buckler said she particularly liked that the Gen Ed report recommended greater flexibility for students and allocated more responsibility for General Education to the individual departments...
...however much I loathe you, I worry even more about your inheritor. My deepest fear, Core, is that the Gen Ed vanguard of today will produce a report so dodgy, so obsequious to “internationalism,” that it will only recreate you into an even greater monstrosity...
Take, for instance, the Gen Ed committee’s dream of a “world literature course,” which “might look at cultural representation in different places and periods, and cultural flows across traditional national boundaries and among hierarchies of cultures...
Thankfully, the Gen Ed Committee’s so-called Gang of Five, meeting clandestinely over the summer, has brought a sense of reason to the process that only a junta can. But will promised “portal” courses be any less vapid than the pipe dream of “Harvard College Courses” promised to be? Will they be mandatory and well-taught, or merely a re-christening of things we already have, with the added dignity of being recognized, rather meaninglessly, as foundational but only recommended...