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...defeated, the Faculty will more on to consider the Committee on Educational Policy's proposals for revision in the curriculum. This program would permit a student to fulfill his Gen Ed requirement either by taking a lower-level Gen Ed course, as all students presently must de, or by taking first a lower-level departmental course and then an upper-level Gen Ed course. Not included in the legislation but, according to Edward Wilcox, "the sense of the CEP," is the idea that such a two-step requirement would have to be a sequence of courses, that a student would...
Certainly to exclude all present upper-level courses from being counted for Gen Ed course credit would be to fly in the face of all logic. These courses are presently distinguished from lower-level courses by being smaller, designed for upperclassmen, for the most part, half-courses. But the Faculty has now decided that General Education can be postponed until a student's upperclass years; and that it can be administered in small courses (Nat Sci 1 has only a handful of people in it and even Hem 4 is smaller than many upper-level courses). We see no reason...
...Upper-level courses that are otherwise qualified as Gen Ed courses should count for Gen Ed course credit. It has been suggested that to count such courses would be to open the gates for basically unsuitable offerings, but the General Education Committee is capable of preventing this. Accepting some of the present upper-level courses (and many are well-qualified) does not mean accepting all of them...
...still believe that the broad view of knowledge which Gen Ed offers can be among the most valuable parts of a Harvard education. It should not be discarded in favor of an intensive study of a field, even if it is outside one's own department. Upper-level courses that are parts of sequences should be evaluated carefully, and the Gen Ed Committee should be sure before approving them that they offer the kind of treatment which the name General Education implies...
...very few months, by a new Gen Ed Committee, the chances are that it will turn out to be an administrative hash. Not enough time will be offered to Faculty members to create new courses, and not enough to the committee to prune less-worthy courses from the upper-level offerings. Its installation should be postponed for a year...