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Before the Faculty voted to amend the CEP plan, it required students wishing to avoid the lower level Gen Ed course in the Natural Sciences to take either one departmental course plus one upper level Gen Ed course, or two departmental courses plus a course fulfilling the requirements for an upper-level Gen Ed course...
...recommended to the Faculty in October that students be asked to meet the requirements for an upper-level course in the Natural Sciences as well as to take two middle-group departmental courses. It was expected at that time that background in calculus you'd be required for all upper-level courses in the Natural Sciences...
...obligation in Natural Science: the student can take either one course sponsored by the Gen Ed Committee or two departmental courses. The rules proposed by the CEP would provide three ways to fulfill the requirement: (1) a lower-level Gen Ed course, (2) one departmental course plus one upper-level Gen Ed course, and (3) two departmental courses plus a course fulfilling the requirements for an upper-level Gen Ed course...
...main point of this change is that many students wishing to bypass the lower-level Gen Ed program in the Natural Sciences will have to fulfill the prerequisites of, even if he does not plan to take, one upper-level Nat Sci course. In almost every case, the prerequisite will be a course in, or knowledge of, calculus. The new rules have one obvious advantage. They will help create a core of non-science concentrators well-trained in mathematics. Knowledge that such students exist might induce top-flight professors to teach sophisticated upper-level Gen Ed courses in the Natural...
Dean Ford suggested after October's Faculty meeting that perhaps the language of the present Gen Ed program, that of "upper-level" courses, was not appropriate to a new one, and that the basis of distinguishing between courses might better be made "courses without prerequisites" and "courses with prerequisites." We see no reason that this suggestion could be written into legislation or, at the very least, that the words "upper level" should not be taken out of the new program. What the Faculty is doing in today's vote is, in effect, to delegate to the Committee on General Education...