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Fourteen years later, the program of General Education in science seemed moribund because no one, outside of a small hard core of dedicated professors, wanted to teach the courses. Examining the problems, the Bruner Committee, a subcommittee of the Committee on Educational Policy, essentially recommended that the limits on the substance of a Gen Ed course be removed in order to entice Faculty members into the program. "The course we envisage will, therefore, be general in its implications, but its generality will not derive from a technological, survey-like, methodological, or historical approach. At its center will be elementary instruction...
...article on "Science for nonscientists: criteria for college programs," Gerald Holton, one of the hard core of teachers of Gen Ed science, reacted against the inducements which the Bruner Committee offered. "In search of manpower, everything becomes equal to everything else." He recommended instead "at least two successive full-year courses, one centered on the physical, the other on the biological sciences, to be preceded by sound, testable achievement in high school." The first was to be "a specially developed, hard-hitting, substance-centered physical science course combined with mathematics, one which uses the major formative cases in the development...
There is an obvious reason why the Gen Ed courses have moved toward the departmental, one which the Bruner Committee and Holton observed: there is no Department of General Education, and teachers looking to ascend within their departments or professional careers find more rewarding, and easier to teach, courses with departmental content...
Natural sciences concentrators could be required to take an elementary nat sci course, on the grounds that such courses are valuable both to the scientist and the non-scientist. Reversing the recommendation of the Bruner Report of 1959, the Committee could also recomment restricting nat sci courses to the classical sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology...
Three Faculty members interested in the relation of the undergraduate to the new center have been added to the committee: Reuben A. Brower, professor of English; Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology; and Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, who will meet with the committee although he is currently on leave...