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...program would abolish compulsory lower-level Gen Ed. A student who had fulfilled certain prerequisites could complete his requirement by taking an upper-level Gen Ed course...
...addition, the new plan would eliminate what members of the Doty Committee considered a basic structural flaw in the present Gen Ed program: the diverse backgrounds of the students taking lower-level Gen Ed courses. As outstanding schools offer their students more and more college-level preparation, the gap between their graduates and those of less advanced schools grows. Sophomores, too, may come into lower-level Gen Ed courses with usually good preparation in their freshman courses. To confine well-prepared students to lower-level Gen Ed courses will come to seen increasingly foolish, but to boost the standards...
Against this, it may be argued that a lower-level General Education course does not impart a body of knowledge, and does not require certain preparation, but allows students to study classical history, literature, and science, to study works that can be returned to with profit after any number of readings. If this were in fact the nature of the Gen Ed program, the proposed changes would be superflous--indeed, there never would have been any need to think of revising the program at all. Yet the General Education Committee has approved lower-level courses that by no means...
...very happy that the Graduate Society thinks so highly of our teaching fellows and that superb instruction in lower-level German courses is becoming legendary among the students," Stein said. "But in view of the fact that we give them only a minimum training program, it makes me shudder to think what teaching fellows are like in other departments," he added...
...play will be produced in conjunction with Humanities 4, a lower-level General Education course in which Daniel Seltzer, associate director of the Loeb, will be the fall-term lecturer...