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...Pipkin undertook the survey to provide information for the upcoming faculty debate on the report released last fall of the Task Force on the Core Curriculum...
...Pipkin said yesterday that, while the survey found there was no consensus on whether the majority of current Gen Ed courses are suitable to fill Gen Ed requirements, the fact that a small number of courses were judged appropriate by most respondents is evidence that most people share similar views on what general education should...
...Pipkin said that if he were to select courses for a program of general education he would start with the present courses that over 75 per cent judged were correctly placed under the Gen Ed heading...
...Pipkin circulated his survey last month to 100 faculty members, to instructors of Gen Ed courses, and to students on various committees in the University. The survey consisted of a questionnaire which listed all Gen Ed courses and asked people to classify them as "appropriate for general education" or as to fit them into three other non-Gen Ed categories...
...problem with the survey, Pipkin said yesterday, is that respondents judged the courses primarily on the basis of course descriptions in the catalogue. As a result, some courses that have a conceptual approach to subject matter which is proper for Gen Ed but that have a catalogue listing which describes a specialized field may be judged inappropriate, Pipkin said...