Word: gens
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...According to economics department Chair James H. Stock, when the department submitted Ec10 for credit in the category U.S. in the World, the Gen Ed committee sent it back, suggesting that it belongs in Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning instead...
...architects and practitioners of Gen Ed agree: the new curriculum needs to focus on subject matter before method, areas of knowledge before ways of knowing...
...Although Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics” was submitted for Gen Ed approval last February, the Gen Ed Standing Committee and the Economics department have yet to reach an agreement on where it belongs in the new system...
...Ec10 Professor N. Gregory Mankiw wrote in an e-mailed statement that he was not impressed with the Gen Ed requirements when they were first passed, and his opinion has not improved...
...committee that drafted the new Gen Ed rules tried to produce something more innovative than the kind of distribution requirements that other schools have,” he wrote. “In the end, the process generated a product that was innovative but inferior. Unfortunately, it looks like we have little choice now but to live with...