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After four minutes of debate and with only one dissent, the Faculty yesterday voted to amend the General Education requirement for undergraduates. Students will now be permitted to substitute two full departmental courses or four half-courses for the one full year of Gen Ed courses previously needed for satisfaction of the basic requirement in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities...
Wilcox said the new regulations, if approved, will take effect immediately and will apply to all current undergraduates. The upper level Gen Ed requirement-two courses outside one's area of concentration-and the half-term expository writing requirement will remain unchanged...
...already endorsed a more massive Gen Ed reform which would drop all Gen Ed requirements in favor of recommendations and an expanded advising system. When the CUE proposal was discussed at the last Faculty meeting, Wilcox and other CGE members spoke out against...
transmit the fundamentals of Western civilization to succeeding generations. A 1965 reform greatly expanded the number of Gen Ed courses and since then the Gen Ed committee has become a place where interdisciplinary or experimental courses could find financing and sponsorship. This new reform will likely accelerate this trend...
...Faculty-watchers are worried that if students no longer have to take Gen Ed courses, General Education will lose some of its aura of "core curriculum" and it may become harder to pursuade senior Faculty members to teach these courses, which are primarily for undergraduates...