Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some schools have suggested varying the number of students in different kinds of classes. Very large classes might hear lectures on general subjects, thereby freeing some teachers for courses where small groups are required, he said...
Unfortunately, the General Education Committee can only reject or accept whatever courses individual professors choose to offer. It does not have the authority to dictate individual courses, and since no one seems interested in teaching courses which the Bruner committee originally envisioned, they will probably never be given...
Because of this, Wald's course has great significance for both the General Education program and for the teaching of all introductory science courses. One of the fundamental these of the original General Education program and the Bruner report, that a course for concentrators was not General Education, will apparently be supplanted in biology as it has been in geology...
Instead of adopting a General Education course for an introductory offering, however, as the geology department has done with Nat Sci 10, Wald has started out by attempting a genuine synthesis. He is proposing a General Education course, not a biology course, to fill the General Education requirement...
...real question is whether his idea is intrinsically limited to biology, and, more specfically, to biology taught by George Wald. It is no secret that the General Education Committee would be reluctant to accept the course Wald has put forth if Wald himself were not teaching...