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...Doty Committee will observe that the Gen Ed science courses have moved toward serving the purposes of the scientific departments: Nat Sci 2 satisfies the physics requirement for concentration in Biochemical Sciences, and cannot be taken for credit in addition to Physics 1; Nat Sci 5 alternates with Biology 2 in Biology and Biochemical Sciences; Nat Sci 10 is required for concentration in Geology. (Nat Sci 4--unclassifiable--and Nat Sci 9, an astronomy course, alone remain.) The Faculty has even recognized some kind of equivalence between departmental and Gen Ed science courses by allowing two elementary science courses...
...legitimate generality which the Bruner Committee and the Redbook desired, and avoids the arbitrary choice to topics which Holton feared, although it need not supply the perspective all three desired. This solution turns the course into an introduction to the field, thus a departmental course. (For concreteness, Nat Sci 4 and Nat Sci 5 may be considered the most successful examples of the topical and survey approaches, respectively...
...mixture of concentrators and non-concentrators should have salutary effects on both groups: a section man in Nat Sci 5 commented, "The premeds and the biologists ask, 'What are the facts?' and the others ask, 'What do they mean?' They learn from each other...
...orienting" function of scientific education with Holton emphasizes. In order to make the introductory courses now called Nat Scis available through the departments, and in order to leave the field of Gen Ed open to topical courses which treat these three issues, the departmental courses currently disguised as Nat Sci should shed their false labels...
...present, there are probably only two courses which qualify as this kind of science Gen Ed: Nash's Nat Sci 4, which presumes a high school background in science, and Holton's Nat Sci 120 (not given this year), which presumes Physics...