Word: non
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...study of economics is often cumulative, thereby necessitating an extensive introduction to provide the requisite basic knowledge. These are the same problems with which the Bruner Report was concerned in the teaching of natural sciences in a liberal arts program. That report dealt primarily with the problem of the non-concentrator in science--the General Education courses in natural sciences. The Economics Department, however, because of the interest of its concentrators, encounters the same problems throughout its program...
...changes are clearly tending to make the course less an introduction into the Department and more a General Education course in the social sciences. The stress, in the attempt to interest the non-concentrator through presentation of historical and topical issues, is now upon political economy rather than upon economics. In a liberal arts college such a solution to the problems affecting the discipline seems to be the most logical and rewarding for an introductory course...
...level of the next has many advantages; it provides a common background which the lecturer can assume, gives a common training, and insures that a student will not neglect a vital aspect of the field. But it also has disadvantages, the primary one being the difficulty of handling non-concentrators who have not had this core. Separate sections in a course might be a simple answer here. A more difficult problem is that of time. Ec. 1, 98, and 99 already constitute three-fifths of the required courses. A central core program of another three semesters would aggravate the present...
...fact that 32 more undergraduates have enrolled in the language courses this year than in 1957 shows, he felt, that College students are "stepping beyond the point of general interest." Even sophomores are joining non-Western social science and languages courses, without having to "justify it to themselves," as they would have had to 15 years ago, Reischauer said...
Dean Monro has proposed that the group concern itself with such topics as freshmen living in the Houses, non-Honors tutorial, and possible exchange programs with colleges abroad...