Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed curriculum makes a commendable effort to cure the principal defect of the General Education program. Under the present system, categories such as "Humanities" and "Social Sciences" are simply too broad to capture any coherent educational goals...
Finch's election in 1975 was a signal that the long era of irrationality in Mississippi gubernatorial races was not yet at an end. In that race he defeated William Winter in the Democratic primary and Gil Carmichael in the general election. Both opponents are among the most intelligent, articulate and truly progressive leaders the state had to offer...
There is wide agreement today that the General Education program lacks a clear sense of purpose and permits students to sample from too large and varied an assortment of courses loosely assembled under the broad rubrics of Humanitites, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. In the words of Francis Pipkin, professor of Physics and a former associate dean for undergraduate education: "The General Education committee feels that it is drifting aimlessly in a strange sea with neither a map nor a compass to guide...
...remedy this problem, faculty committees have urged that the General Education program be replaced by a core curriculum, a proposal which the entire Faculty is now considering...
This is a perennial debate, and the proposal before the Faculty strikes a judicious balance. Although the new curriculum provides more structure than the existing General Education Program, the core itself will take up only a quarter of the entire undergraduate program, and the students will be free to choose among several courses in each required category. In addition, undergraduates will continue to select their own concentration and will have a quarter of their courses reserved for free elective choice...