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...gaining the education-in-breadth goal of Gen Ed range from "totalitarianism," a core system in which every Harvard student takes exactly the same basic courses, to complete laissezfaire, whereby a student is required only to take some courses outside his own field of concentration. In 1945, the famous "Redbook," General Education in a Free Society, embraced a close approximation to the former plan, defining the word general as both "shared"--students taking the same lower-level courses with little choice in fulfilling upper-level requirements--and "philosophical," denoting the historic themes of Western Civilization...
...specific Redbook proposals never got off the ground. When a final program for General Education was approved in 1949, three main changes had been made. Students were allowed to choose from a variety of lower-level courses; were given almost complete freedom of choice in fulfilling the upper-level requirements; and were allowed to substitute departmental courses for certain Gen Ed offerings. In short, the idea of Gen Ed as a "shared" experience was altered from the beginning...
...part, 2) to make him aware of different fields of knowledge and methods of inquiry and 3) to encourage a broader view of the potentialities and limitations of his own speciality." But this is a battle that was fought twenty years ago with the writing of the Redbook...
...liberal education. A more substantial number may insist on "not rocking the boat" and suggest that the present program adequately attains these goals, and argue that a further expenditure of time on Gen Ed isn't worth the trouble. Still others may want to harken back to the Redbook and reaffirm even more strongly a faith in the need for training students in the philosophy and history of Western Civilization...
Perhaps one member of the Doty Committee hit on one key difference between the present report and the Redbook, one which also reflects a contrast in tone and ambition. As he said, "That may have had a greater national impact, but we will probably get most of ours passed...