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...survey of mythology, from the oral epics of earliest civilization to modern folklore, will be offered as a lower-level humanities course next year...
While most lower-level humanities courses begin with and concentrate on Homer, Hum 9 will give students an opportunity to read the Homeric epics in conjunction with the Bible. Lord thinks that people rarely realize that in fact these were written in part simultaneously, somewhere around the eighth century...
Only five courses can now be offered in any of the three areas. The committee removed the limit in anticipation of a number of new course offerings, some of them half-courses. All lower-level Gen Ed offerings are now full courses...
Under the "Redbook system" on which the present program is based, only one lower-level course was supposed to be offered in each area, and all students would be required to take it. But the single-course idea was never put into effect, and as the Gen Ed system has moved away from the concept of providing a "common core" of knowledge all students would share, the number of courses in each area has been increased...
Wilcox suggested calling present lower-level courses "Basic" courses; the present upper-levels "Elective"; and new courses under the pre-requisite system "Advanced...