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There can be little doubt that the program has been bent by these winds of change. Most importantly, the distinction between Gen Ed and departmental courses has been blurred. In the Natural Sciences, where Nat Sci 5, 9, and 10 serve as basic departmental courses, it has been obliterated. Not only is the content of Gen Ed no longer shared, but it is something of a hodgepodge--at once methodological and historical, quantitative and qualitative in emphasis...
...feel it is Paris, not suburbia, that has influenced college styles, point to the pants suit and the figure-skimming A-line dress. Nonetheless, whether it is Courreges who gets the credit, or Concord, Mass., Dior or Darien, the fact remains: Betty Coed may not make it through Soc. Sci. 101, but only Daddy is likely to care...
Speaking for another Soc Sci course, an instructor who wished to remain anonymous said, "As far as the course is concerned, the 'first-come-first-served' basis is better...
Professor Crane Brinton coaxes the drowsy toward consciousness with History 134a, a study of the European intellect and how it penetrated "downward into the crowd." Geography 101 helps arouse scholars with a stroll through the history of the English landscape, and undergraduates in Nat Sci 6 personally retrace the evolution of human awareness while Professor Howells lectures on the same subject...
Simultaneously the Civilization of India materializes in the guise of Soc Sci 116, students of Aristophanes savor Greek 105a, and dilettantes carefully avoid the intricacies of wave phenomena unwound in Physics 112a. Juan Marichal caps this tour de force of the liberal arts with History 175b, the intellectual history of Latin America, while Professor Gleason shows "how the foundations of real variable theory can be based on naive set theory in Math...