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...various “modes of inquiry” used in different fields; hence, they forbade any substitution of departmental courses, either basic or advanced, for the carefully designed “case study” courses approved by the committee. The result is that, as under the Gen Ed system, students devote about half their courses to their concentration, eight to the Core, and the remaining quarter to electives. But unlike in Gen Ed, the student with a sincere desire not only to learn modes of inquiry, but also to gain an educated person’s familiarity with...
...Meanwhile, it seems obvious that military intervention in Iraq has sent shockwaves through the Islamic world. In November of last year, Bush ally Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, suspending that state’s constitution and silencing the dissent that arrives, organically, with true democracy. The one-time reformist hope for troubled Pakistanis—opposition leader Benazir Bhutto ’73, long in exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled...
...General Education Standing Committee approved six classes in their last meeting of the year, bringing the total number of Gen Ed courses...
...Gen Ed committee chair Jay M. Harris said that he's hoping for 64 Gen Ed classes to be taught per semester...
...think it seems like a good idea to change to Gen Ed,” he said. “I was never really enamored with the theory behind the Core...