Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper level requirement too has changed radically. Instead of the distribution requirement which is the present upper level program, the Redbook suggested that only a very limited group of courses approved by the Committee should be fulfill the upper level requirement. And there was no suggestion that the intention was simply to promote distribution...
...decreasing significance of the Redbook is not, in itself, a disaster for General Education. But when the aims of the old program ceased to be of importance, nothing took their place. Today General Education finds itself in a position similar to History and Literature--the only way anybody can explain the program is to appeal to old standards which no one believes to be true...
...critical problems is the program's relation to the departments. During the early years when there was a great deal of enthusiam for General Education, and the Committee was the central force in guiding undergraduate education, the problem of courses like Social Sciences 1 caused a good deal of discussion, for there was much resentment at the incorporation of a departmental course (Social Sciences 1 was the old History 1) into the program. In the last few years, however, the problem has acquired new aspects...
...addition to these two specific difficulties, there is growing resentment of the special status enjoyed by History. As long as the Redbook remained the guiding principle of the program, the dominance of one field could be explained. But with the Redbook virtually a dead letter, this preferred status is an additional irritant. The initial ranks of those who did not support the Redbook have been swelled by those who think that the Redbook is simply being used as an excuse for perpetuating the dominance of the History department...
...impossible to duplicate Hum 6 and Soc Sci 1 as departmental courses, both for economic reasons and because the staff is not available. The cost of reducing the involvement of the departments would be removal of the courses from the program...