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Emphasizing that, Harvard "must maintain a strong commitment to General Education," the HPC outlined its reasons for supporting the CEP proposal in a statement to all Faculty members. The CEP proposal allows a student to fulfill his Gen Ed requirement in the present manner - by taking lower-level Gen Ed courses - or with selected departmental offerings ("or their equivalents") followed by upper-level Gen Ed courses...
...praised the sequential alternative to lower-level Gen Ed courses as a way "to keep pace with the increasing academic sophistication of entering classes." Its statement warned, however, that the success of the new program "will obviously depend on the creation of new upper-level courses in General Education," especially in the Natural Sciences...
...stressed the need to maintain strong lower-level offerings for those who choose the present approach to Gen Ed. Otherwise, the statement declares, "most students would be compelled to take up to six courses" to fulfill their requirement...
...called the CEP's plan for including departmental courses in the program "a rather clever devise," and said he was glad that the plan provided some competition for lower-level Gen Ed courses
...plan would permit a student to fulfill his lower level Gen Ed requirement in any area either by taking a lower-level Gen Ed course, as at present, or by first taking one of a number of "designated" departmental courses and then an upper-level Gen Ed course...