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Junior thesis-writers would be able to test the proposition that senior year is the best time for General Education. The new Gen Ed program makes this approach more practicable; after all, the senior who might feel sheepish about taking Hum 2 would be less reluctant to enroll in one of the new upper-level Gen Ed courses. The senior would also be able to use his liberated time to hear that one lecturer he'd always wanted to hear or to complete the extracurricular project he never had time for before...
Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, is the only Master who also sits on the Committee on Assignments. He has made a major innovation in the House system by introducing lower-level Gen Ed courses within Winthrop House, and is a leading proponents of the new assignments system...
Dean Ford has shown that he and the rest of the CEP will welcome advice and criticism from undergraduates is implementing the new Gen Ed program. His suggestion last week that HPC evaluate General Education courses every year opens a new area of educational policy to undergraduates. The HPC, of course, has virtually ignored Gen Ed in its plans for quadrennial audits; and the long faculty debates have smothered most undergraduate enthusiasm for theoretical discussion. But members of the CEP hope that new course offerings in the Gen Ed program will stimulate a little creative thinking among students, and that...
With this ideal of diversity in mind, any course which the Committee judges appropriate to General Education is an asset, because it increases the options to the student. Wilcox has pointed out that even small, restricted offerings such as Nat Sci 1 mean a few more openings in the Gen Ed program, and every opening means a new opportunity for someone. Small size may eventually prove an advantage, if professors who fear riding a tiger the size of Hum 2 can be encouraged to launch limited, less time-consuming Gen Ed courses within the Houses...
...obvious criticisms of Houses courses can be answered with relative ease. Their small size does not make them inappropriate for General Education, if their subject matter satisfies Gen Ed criteria. Presumably, even departmental offerings could be taught in the Houses. Even if a Master limits the course to House residents, it is pointless to prevent him from offering it to anyone because he is reluctant to offer it to everyone; what is more, Chalmers has said he will not take an inflexible attitude toward admitting non-residents with a special interest in the courses. The courses' small size would...