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Four months ago, the Task Force on General Education articulated, in its preliminary report, a guiding philosophy for the future of general education. That philosophy, centered on the practical application of a liberal arts education to the problems of the modern world, impressed us then and continues to do so today.The Task Force, however, has gone too far with this philosophy in its final report, which was released last week and will be discussed by the full Faculty today. Unlike the original report, which emphasized the openness and flexibility of the new system, this latest report perpetuates...
...Core Curriculum, it is worth remembering that it was a response, at least in part, to a problem with the more traditional model of general education that had already become clear a generation before. In particular, the traditional model, in its traditional form, is ill-suited to our modern age. That is because it takes for granted agreement about what constitutes the “good life,” and consequently about what a general education program should teach, when such agreement is precisely what contemporary society lacks. Writing in their book, “General Education...
After all, for an international with no background in U.S. history, taking a general survey course on the subject would prove far more useful in understanding modern America than the more specific history core offerings, such as Historical Study B-34. “The World in 1776” or Historical Study B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America.” If international students are not familiar with the basic events and people of the American Revolution, then how are they expected to appreciate classes as narrow in scope as these? Without...
Under Vincent’s direction, “The Marriage of Figaro” gets a modern update with a presidential spin...
...works of Nietzsche could have claimed some contextual basis; both James and Nietzsche were concerned with many of the same problems during the same time period. Perhaps this tendency, seen everywhere from popular magazines to university course catalogs, represents an upswing of eclecticism in the wake of post-modern academic approaches, or an effort to fulfill the Wikipedian dream of connecting all knowledge, however tenuously. Maybe it’s all a futile effort to fulfill the promise of the exhilarating subtitle—“In the Maelstrom of American Modernism?...