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...requirements that each student would have to take, in addition to courses in his or her concentration. The scheme was simple, at least on the surface: the range of disciplines was divided into the Social Sciences. Natural Sciences and Humanities (affectionately known as Soc Sci, Nat Sci and Hum), with the Committee on General Education offering introductory courses in each area. Each student would have to take two half-courses in two of the three areas--the two areas that were not related to his field of concentration. (An example, for the confused--in this case probably the majority: John...
...Force that reported on the Gen Ed system two years ago said then that "We have never really abandoned the principle of General Education. But the present General Education guidelines are ineffective and worn down." The Task Force's report was a bit more biting: noting the number of Nat Sci courses that had sprung up to cater to the needs of non-science types, it concluded that the needs of non-science types, it concluded that the Nat Sci requirement "can be met in any number of way which insure that the student will not learn, or even observe...
...choice put the structure of the student's program very much in the student's hands. The attack on that diversity began well before the core was proposed with such tactics as denying Gen Ed credit to students who took a course with an explicit loose-grading policy--Nat...
...subject in which they lack interest or talent. There is no way to guarantee competency in a discipline without the support and receptivity of the student. Furthermore, the Core could not provide students with broad exposure to a number of disciplines without requiring a ridiculously heavy course load. Many Nat Sci professors object strenuously to the Core because they feel students cannot develop scientific understanding without taking a much larger number of science courses than the core includes...
...generation ago, NBC had to cancel The Nat King Cole Show because sponsors would not pay for blacks on TV. Now anyone who watches, say, the Monday night prime-time line up on CBS (Good Times; Baby, I'm Back) and tunes in other sit coms like The Jeffersons and What's Happening!! would think he was witnessing the greatest accumulation of blacks on TV since the March on Washington...