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According to the CEP plan, a student may satisfy his Gen Ed requirement in two ways: by taking lower-level Gen Ed courses as he does at present or by first taking a lower level departmental course and then a related upper level Gen Ed course...
...involves the science requirement. Present rules provide two ways of fulfilling the obligation in Natural Science: the student can take either one course sponsored by the Gen Ed Committee or two departmental courses. The rules proposed by the CEP would provide three ways to fulfill the requirement: (1) a lower-level Gen Ed course, (2) one departmental course plus one upper-level Gen Ed course, and (3) two departmental courses plus a course fulfilling the requirements for an upper-level Gen Ed course...
...main point of this change is that many students wishing to bypass the lower-level Gen Ed program in the Natural Sciences will have to fulfill the prerequisites of, even if he does not plan to take, one upper-level Nat Sci course. In almost every case, the prerequisite will be a course in, or knowledge of, calculus. The new rules have one obvious advantage. They will help create a core of non-science concentrators well-trained in mathematics. Knowledge that such students exist might induce top-flight professors to teach sophisticated upper-level Gen Ed courses in the Natural...
...amendment is defeated, the Faculty will more on to consider the Committee on Educational Policy's proposals for revision in the curriculum. This program would permit a student to fulfill his Gen Ed requirement either by taking a lower-level Gen Ed course, as all students presently must de, or by taking first a lower-level departmental course and then an upper-level Gen Ed course. Not included in the legislation but, according to Edward Wilcox, "the sense of the CEP," is the idea that such a two-step requirement would have to be a sequence of courses, that...
Certainly to exclude all present upper-level courses from being counted for Gen Ed course credit would be to fly in the face of all logic. These courses are presently distinguished from lower-level courses by being smaller, designed for upperclassmen, for the most part, half-courses. But the Faculty has now decided that General Education can be postponed until a student's upperclass years; and that it can be administered in small courses (Nat Sci 1 has only a handful of people in it and even Hem 4 is smaller than many upper-level courses). We see no reason...