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Four courses not among last year's leaders have joined the top ten. Soc Sci 1, Comp Lit 166, English 123, and History 169 replaced Fine Arts 13, Music 1, Soc Sci 4, and Nat Sci 3. Fine Arts 13 took the largest drop, falling from fourth to twenty-first place...
Rankings of the top ten courses are Ec 1, 635; Hum 2 and Math 1a, 526 each; Hum 5, 483 Soc Sci 1, 459; Comp Lit 166, 430; English 123, 364; Chem 1, 356; History 169, 345; and Government...
...scientists quickly pointed out that the science major is far too busy in his own field to waste time on the elementary trivia with which the Nat. Sci. courses, by their very nature, must deal, and therefore should not be forced to spend a year at the lower level...
While this argument is true to a large extent, it also contains an implicit suggestion for improving both the science concentrator and the scope of the general education program. Development of upper level Nat. Sci. courses has failed to keep pace with that of lower level courses. With the exception of a half course in the history and philosophy of physics, Nat. Sci. 120, they have all been rather uninteresting and have done more to further the use of the word "gut" than any other set of courses...
...general education program, then, in order to strengthen its own upper level Nat. Sci. courses and to give the science major a more liberal orientation in his field should organize three full courses in the philosophy and history of physics, chemistry and biology. They should probably be modeled on the approach used in Nat. Sci. 120, with each science concentrator required to take one, presumably the one pertaining to his own field. The other General Education requirements would remain unchanged...