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...Replacing the current Core Curriculum with distributional requirements. These requirements would consist of three courses each in three subject areas—Arts and Humanities, the Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. The three courses used to fulfill an “area distribution” could not all be taken in one department...
Many details of the legislation approved today still need to be ironed out, such as whether courses taken for a secondary field can be double counted for Core requirements or a language citation. After becoming bogged down in debate on that issue today, professors finally voted to refer the question back to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), the group that drafted the legislation. The EPC was asked to report back to the Faculty in the fall...
...question boiled down to whether the legislation should specify the extent to which students will be able to fulfill Core requirements or a language citation with some of the same courses they take to get credit for a secondary field...
...more than one course that counts toward the secondary field may also be applied to other requirements, such as concentration, the Core (or alternative general education requirement), or a language citation...
During the meeting, Explanatory Note (2.) was returned to the Educational Policy Committee for further discussion about whether or not courses taken for a secondary field should be allowed to double-count for the fulfillment of Core requirements or the language citation requirements...