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...courses appear to be a good thing from the vantage point of University Hall and the office of Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education. As Wilcox interprets it, the Faculty's mandate in creating a new Gen Ed plan was to multiply the paths an undergraduate could choose in fulfilling his Gen Ed requirement. Rather than channelling the entire College through a few large courses, the new plan aims at allowing the student to tailor his General Education program according to his personal needs and interests...
Wilcox pointed out that only a portion of the seminars could become art of the program. "A good many of them bear no relation to the Gen Ed requirement," he said. "Some of them are very narrow research projects...
...Committee has not yet discussed the seminars and their relation to Gen Ed, Wilcox said. He added that the seminar program might not undergo any changes until next year even if the Committee decided to make...
Wilcox said he viewed Gen Ed courses offered by individual Houses as valuable additional sources of diversity under the program, even if they are severely limited in size. Winthrop House now gives Nat Sci 1, and has proposed a Soc Sci course to be limited to ten sophomores in the House...
...Gen Ed courses no longer have to be large-enrollment, full-year undertakings, Wilcox said, professors may become less reluctant to propose and organize them...