Word: gens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the Committee on Undergraduate Education published a long critique earlier this year. That report, authored by Robert J. Kiely, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, one of Rosovsky's assistants with "line responsibilities," recommends the creation of small core-courses of an interdisciplinary nature, replacing many Gen Ed, language and Expository Writing requirements...
Meanwhile the Redbook's pages have yellowed in local eyes as well. With the multiplying number of Gen Ed courses, the focus of the program has dissolved. Since the Gen Ed pages of the catalogue have come to provide a refuge for courses that do not fit into the neatly compartmentalized offerings of the departments, the program no longer possesses even the shreds of an underlying purpose and philosophy. What President Bok has called the "substantial disarray" of the University's undergraduate curriculum is a commonly voiced criticism. In light of Harvard's increasing financial restraints and the competition...
...House seminars have served to provide similar opportunities to students, although they are offered on a more limited basis than upper-level Gen Ed courses, they indicate strategies that the Redbook committee might consider. In next year's seminar on the "Problems of Bilingual People in an Urban Environment," the student's research will be based on his work as a volunteer in agencies such as schools and hospitals in a Boston bilingual community. The combination of fieldwork with rigorous academic inquiry offers a fruitful organizing principle for the Gen Ed program. It might infuse liberal education at Harvard with...
Kiely's report attacks the Gen Ed program on several counts. One major complaint cited in the report is that Gen Ed has become a "collection of departmental splinters" with little reference to the "philosophical" questions and broad areas of learning that supposedly set general education apart from specialized study. More specifically, the report criticizes Gen Ed's failure to counterbalance the "lack of coherence," the laissez-faire or smorgasbord approach to education, that characterizes Harvard's freshman curriculum...
...Italian Renaissance," "The City," or "Technology,"--to be taught by teams of a half dozen junior and senior Faculty members and teaching fellows from different departments. These seminars would count for all but two of the freshmen's eight half-courses and would replace the whole baggage of Gen Ed, language and expos requirements, with the exception of Natural Science. They would each contain 20 to 40 students and, at the start, would be offered as an option to following the present distribution system...