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...added that while the concentration has always held a special place in the University—as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities??its honors-only status scared away many people. The removal of the thesis requirement creates another option for students, and it also reflects the department’s commitment to enable students to adapt the concentration to their particular needs, professors said...
Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding and Culture and Belief—the two categories in Gen Ed that are closest to the humanities??were added to the program late in the curriculum’s five-year review...
...real idea is to introduce the widest range of perspectives through the questions as possible, to open up the terrain for discussion,” said Steven Biel, the executive director of the Humanities Center. Kronman reasserted the main themes of his book, arguing that the humanities?? initial and essential role in higher education should be to address the deeper questions of the meaning of life. However, because of the influence of what he calls the “modern research ideal,” Kronman said that the humanities have sacrificed this pursuit...
...Students are initially considered for membership in Phi Beta Kappa based on their GPA after five semesters. The number of students nominated in each of the three broad areas—natural science, social science or humanities??is based on the percentage of students enrolled in each concentration within the class. Phi Beta Kappa sets up a quota for each of the fields in order to ensure parity across these categories. Those students with the highest GPAs are then nominated...
...keep in the new general education system. In particular, Moral Reasoning seems to have garnered a plethora of supporters who want to graft it onto the proposed system of three courses in each of three areas—the Study of Societies, Science and Technology, and the Arts and Humanities??which could be fulfilled with either departmental courses or broad interdisciplinary “Courses in General Education.” Despite their good intentions, we believe that there should not be sub-requirements like a Moral Reasoning requirement.The rationale for the fundamentally simple three-by-three system...