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These departures from the exact specifications of the Redbook in both the Humanities and the Social Sciences did not necessarily represent deviations from its basic philosophy. The alternate lower-level Soc Sci and Hum courses were originally intended to cover the same material. Thus, only one of each could be counted for credit...
...positive prescription: All students would take the same lower-level Humanities course, the same Social Sciences course, and one of two courses in the Natural Sciences. In addition, they would take three more courses outside of their department of concentration, two of them outside of the area (Hum, Nat Sci, or Soc Sci) in which that department fell...
What the Committee hoped the student would get out of the elementary Soc Sci and Hum courses is fairly obvious. The Committee described it in rather cosmic terms as "the general art of the free man and the citizen" and "an appreciation of his cultural heritage." But what it actually meant was that it thought that there were certain books a student ought to be required to read before he graduated and certain ideas to which he ought to be exposed...
From the first, however, there were differences between the General Education program that actually found its way into the course catalogue and that recommended in the Redbook. In 1946, when lower-level Gen Ed courses were first offered on an experimental basis, there were two Soc Sci courses and three Hums, in addition to the two recommended Nat Scis...
...moon's surface was formed under nonearthly conditions, and it may be different from the earth's surface in ways that the most open-minded sci entists cannot imagine. To land on it without having seen close-up pictures first would be something less than a prudent space project...