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...don’t think there are too many categories intellectually, but I do worry a little bit that the students will feel the eight requirements as a burden,” she said...
Both architects of the new General Education curriculum said that they would have preferred a program with fewer than eight categories to give students more leeway for electives...
English Professor Louis Menand and Philosophy Professor Alison Simmons—the two co-chairs of the Task Force on General Education, which wrote the legislation for the new curriculum to be launched this fall—said that they are concerned that the eight-category requirement may constrain students’ schedules, especially those who will also be pursuing secondary fields...
...added that the number of categories ended up reaching eight because the Faculty was trying to accommodate professors in all disciplines. During faculty discussions, eight was seen as the upper limit for the number of categories...
...original proposal that Menand and Simmons’ task force submitted to the Faculty in October had seven categories—the same number that the Core currently contains. By February, it had grown to eight...