Word: gens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communication, the making of relevant judgments and the discrimination of values"-has been lost under a pile of lower and higher level courses, confusing guidelines, and contradictory rules. General Education was supposed to be translated into a specific as "The Scandinavian Cinema" and "Technology, War and Peace") now fulfill Gen Ed requirements. One course in Scandinavian films now equals two Fine Arts offerings in satisfying a Gen Ed requirement in Humanities...
...task force should have suggested concrete incentives or requirements to get Faculty members involved in these programs. Requiring students to take what the task force wants is an easy and potentially damaging way of placing the onus of Gen Ed on student shoulders. To quote the dissent of task force member Robert V. Pound, Malinckrodt Professor of Physics...
...report Rosovsky outlines the basis for the need to reform undergraduate education, noting correctly that many facets of the program, especially the Gen. Ed. requirements, seem to have little meaning or purpose. His call for a "constructive debate on the issues, not merely a battle between those who favor the status quo and those who oppose it," is a welcome one. Considering the unnecessary wariness and pettiness of the Harvard faculty and the opposition it has expressed not only to specific changes but to the discussion of important issues of education in general, such a call is extremely important...
...primary motivation for the changes, the task force members assert in the core curriculum report, is to bring the Gen Ed program back into focus...
...program as it is now, with its 42 humanities, 40 Soc Sci and 28 Nat Sci offerings, and the right to substitute two departmental courses for one Gen Ed offering, has strayed far from the original Gen Ed path...