Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical problems is the program's relation to the departments. During the early years when there was a great deal of enthusiam for General Education, and the Committee was the central force in guiding undergraduate education, the problem of courses like Social Sciences 1 caused a good deal of discussion, for there was much resentment at the incorporation of a departmental course (Social Sciences 1 was the old History 1) into the program. In the last few years, however, the problem has acquired new aspects...
Most conspicuous, Humanities 6, a course which Professor Brower admits is not General Education in the traditional sense, has taken on a singularly ambivalent character as both an English department course and General Education. It is the only sectioned introductory course, and the enrollment problem has become so difficult that English concentrators were given preference among sophomore applicants last year and this...
Pressure to institute departmental courses in the lower level program has increased in the last few years, in part because many departments felt that they had to offer potential concentrators a way of using the General Education program, as the History department does. Proposals to make elementary Government and Economics courses into part of the Gen Ed requirement have been rejected, but the sentiment is still strong...
...addition to departmental pressures, the entire College is changing its attitude toward the fundamental ideas of Gen Ed. The most recent manifestation is the Freshman Seminar program. Called by one member of the General Education Committee "advanced work for specialists," the seminars are directed toward far more specialized work than is normally done during the Freshman year, and are in direct opposition to the General Education program. "I feel that the fate of the General Education program depends a great deal on the fate of these other experiments," says Howe; "you can't have both...
...seminar program also suggests how much the influence of the General Education Committee has diminished during the last decade. Ten years ago the Committee would surely have been extensively consulted during the planning of such a program; this year it was presented with the accomplished fact, and told, in effect, that if it did not permit Gen Ed credit the entire Freshman year experiment would probably collapse...