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...reason, however, to force everyone to take lower-level courses, and it is here that we differ from a second group of opponents of the CEP program, including Master Finley. If a person has a strong background in an area and wishes to study it at a more advanced level, or if he wishes to postpone his General Education until he has become familiar with much of the work covered by lower-level courses, he should be permitted to work at the upper-level...
...plan would give the Gen Ed system a firm push towards the departments. This is the requirement that a student who wishes to fulfill the requirement at the upper level do so by taking a sequence of courses--first a departmental course and then a closely-rleated upper-level Gen Ed course...
...idea of sequences is a fine one, but every student who wants to take an upper-level course should not be forced into a sequence. There are several upper-level courses at present which fulfill all the requirements of a Gen Ed course. They are interdepartmental; they treat a large area of subject matter; they are extremely well-taught. Many are not lower-level courses only because the professors teaching them chose to deal with older students in smaller courses. Now that the Faculty has decided that Gen Ed can be postponed until the upper-class years...
...does not want to spend any more course-time on it. The CEP plan, as elucidated by Mr. Wilcox, gives him only the choice of leaping backwards into a lower-level course designed for people younger than he, or of taking the unpalatable Economics-oriented courses at the upper-level, or of beginning another two-year sequence...
...require sequences admittedly involves a contradiction: one requires a student to take a departmental course which may have no relevance to the upper-level course he then goes on to. The merits of requiring the departmental course, however, are considerable. It makes certain that students will have some contact with fields outside their own while they are still freshmen and sophomores. It permits an instructor to offer an upper-level course that is in a sequence with the knowledge that enough nonconcentrators will be interested to make it worthwhile...