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...standards for the lower-level courses in the non-scientific areas have undergone a process of gradual disappearance since 1945, those in natural sciences have suffered through the even more debilitating process of official reinterpretation...
...Bruner committee, recommended that lower-level Nat Sci courses be added in such fields as chemistry, geology, astronomy, and experimental psychology. It also devoted some time to explaning the difference between a Gen Ed course and an introductory departmental course, a distinction which has become more or less academic, at least in those fields where the two are combined...
...vision of the Redbook committee that the upper-level general education courses would offer support, encouragement, and staffing to interesting courses, experimental courses, which were not specialized enough to interest any single department. Where these critics differ from the Redbook committee is in their vision of the required lower-level courses as an opportunity to offer all this, plus a captive audience...
...such programs as advanced standing and the freshman seminars, which exempt some students from part of the Gen Ed Program. For these critics what is relevant is not how good a substitute the freshman seminar or the high-school preparation shown by the A.P. sophomore is for the lower-level Gen Ed course or even how close it comes to being a substitute for the ideal Gen Ed course of the Redbook. Rather, these programs are dangerous to Gen Ed because they bring the student more quickly under the influence of a department...
Such a process will be particularly difficult in the Social Science, since the newer "methodology" courses, such as Soc Sci 8, have much less in common with the traditional Soc Sci than do the various lower-level Nat Sci with each other...