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According to the plan approved by the Faculty in November, Wilcox's committee is responsible for implementing the CEP proposals--moving into the second stage of Gen Ed's tortuous agrormamento. The new plan is simple enough in theory: Students may now substitute a sequence of designated departmental and upper level courses for a lower level Gen Ed course to satisfy their requirement in any area. But in practice, Wilcox warns, "the process will be long and difficult. It'll be reaffirmation bit by bit. They'll be problems all along...
...most important problems will be persuading the teaching men to give upper level Gen Ed courses: "They like to specialize, you know. It's so difficult to be sure what really converts consensus into action. I don't think any rule requiring 10% [of a department's teaching time] will do any good. I've just got to have faith that when they voted they weren't just saying. 'Gee this is a damn good plan, let the other guy teach the gen ed course!'" Another problem will be designating the departmental courses: "ensuring that the lower level and upper...
...program, Wilcox hopes, will maximize those options--"give students a wide choice between different courses and outlooks." He plans to provide upper level "core" courses which will give concentrators in a particular field a generalized view of their entire area; and he hopes to continue the "terminal" lower level offerings for those who want to end their academic careers in a particular area with one 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...
...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...