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...people would like courses to be individualized,” Maier said. “Whether Gen Ed will achieve this is another question. It’s hard to be so individual when you have such broad topics...
Last Thursday, the Gen Ed committee approved 10 courses for the new curriculum—but History Professor Daniel L. Smail’s new course History 1060: “Europe and Its Borders, 950-1550,” may need to be offered as a departmental alternative which can cap course enrollment—rather than a Gen Ed class which cannot—since Smail may not be able to find enough teaching fellows for the high projected course enrollment...
History Professor Charles S. Maier ’60, who teaches Ethical Reasoning 12: “Political Justice and Political Trials,” said that having small Gen Ed classes may not be possible when syllabi are so expansive...
Kenen stressed that the large class size will hopefully be only temporary since about half the full slate of Gen Ed classes will be taught next year. How large the course selection will be, however, is unclear at present...
Since all of next year’s incoming freshmen will be required to graduate under the new curriculum, and it will take several years to fully develop the program, freshmen might need to get first priority in taking Gen Ed classes, she added...