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...need many traditional basic courses. The idea, says Harvard's Director of General Education Edward T. Wilcox, is that the freshman year no longer need be like an army's basic training, with "all incoming freshmen treated alike in large, required courses," but can offer "new, upper-level courses -a series of options." Changes are motivated, too, by the realization that a student who pursues subjects that deeply interest him is likely to learn more. As Notre Dame Senior David Sauer puts it: "Only a challenge of my own can turn...
Uppedclassmen who have already taken Gen Ed A would be allowed to apply for admission to the upper-level sections as they would for any other limited enrollment course, according to Kiely...
...eligible for exemption from the second term of Gen Ed this year on the basis of an A in the first term, 16 elected to remain in the course. Under the new system, those who earn exemptions would have the option of taking one of the upper-level offerings in the Spring...
...current distinction between honors and regular sections would be maintained. But with many of the top students taking the upper-level courses, it would be easier to get into honors sections. Kiely said that honors students would be selected from those with advanced placement scores of 3 (or without scores) who take a qualifying examination in September. Currently, most honors students have advanced placement scores...
Kiely said that the new upper-level courses "will in no way duplicate or substitute sophomore tutorials given by the departments...