Word: gens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study is split into subdivisions, for a total of ten, and one half- course is required in each of the subdivisions. The Faculty committed itself early, however, to guaranteeing that under the Core plan students will not have to take more than the eight half-courses required under the Gen. Ed. program. The Core will include a system of exemptions from Core courses, depending on a student's concentration, so any student who wishes may complete the Core with only eight half-courses...
...continue this year the process of creating the Core, which began in 1975 when Dean Rosovsky called for a review of the old General Education program. Begun in the '40s when a liberal education was expected to, as Whitlock says, "preserve and pass on western traditions and culture," the Gen Ed. program lost much of its cohesiveness in the '60s when a proliferation of courses added titles to the catalog that had less and less reference to the original goals of the program...
...five-step attack had undergone mitosis, not to mention a considerable mutation. The final Faculty Council report reshuffled Wilson's original five areas, and then split each in two--effectively making each student reponsible for a half-course in eight out of ten subdivisions of the Core. As in Gen Ed, the student would not have to take courses in the Core area affiliated with his or her field of concentration...
...Faculty's timetable for implementatioin of the Core calls for the committee to begin offering the first Core courses in the fall of 1979. From then on the number of Core coureses will increase as standard Gen Ed offerings decrease in number, or are incorporated into the Core program. By the time the Class of '82 are seniors, they will have very few Gen Ed holdovers from which to choose; this menas that they must choose carefully when to take the courses that will fulfill the Gen Ed requirements, as the same offerings may not be around for long...
Nonetheless, the transition from Gen Ed to Core involves a careful study of which courses might fit the detailed guidlines the Faculty has prescribed for Core courses. The final say on this rests with the Core committees; however, Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, is in the middle of a preliminary study that shows that close to half the approximately 100 Gen Ed courses might, with modifications, qualify for inclusion in the Core. "This is clearly just a ballpark figure," he warns, stressing that the study is aimed mainly at determining fiscal effects of the increased teaching load that...