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...Gen Ed courses, especially the lower-level surveys, were taught in the "great man" format, featuring one or several widely-known lecturers facing a full theater of students, all of whom were required to attend weekly sections...
...Guts"--courses reputed to have either generous grading or slim workloads (or in the ideal case, both)--have been a hallmark of general requirements at Harvard since the very earliest years of Gen...
...Gen Ed's most famous gut was an introductory geology course in the natural sciences requirement, known informally as "Rocks for Jocks," or, as one alumnus put it, "Stones for Scholar-Athletes...
William K. Martin '72 says that after reading about the current Core, he feels today's system serves the goals of a liberal education better than Gen Ed did during his time as a student...
...Core] sounded better, it sounded more demanding," Martin says. "It sounded as if it would create a more well-rounded intellectual life than what we had under Gen...