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Last fall, Gen Ed implementation committee chair Jay M. Harris sent an e-mail to all members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences asking them to submit course proposals.
Thus far, the majority of course proposals have been in the sciences and the humanities. Harris said the General Education implementation committee is aiming for approximately 20 Gen Ed courses to be offered next year.
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, dean of the School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, supports this view of a well-rounded education as the product of liberal arts. He believes it is integral to success in any field post-college.
Many students and professors appreciate this need for a breadth of knowledge. “I have yet to find a student who has not felt that the liberal arts…provides them with a very unique perspective on the sciences or the social sciences,” says...
In fact, the importance of a well-rounded education is so widely recognized that some vocational schools have started to encourage exploratory learning. The Mount Sinai Humanities and Medicine Program accepts about 30 college students studying the humanities or social sciences for a spot at in medical school, for example...