For the past few months, administrators and faculty members have been criticizing the General Education Program, and now some students say they agree.
The Educational Resources Group (ERG), a 30-member student group that chooses the student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), released a report Thursday that outlines an alternative to the plan for a core curriculum set forth by the Task Xorce on the Core Curriculum.
The student proposal lists seven areas that would make up a core curriculum that are similar to the eight areas proposed by the task force, but it advocates a two-for-one bypass rule to allow students to get core credit for departmental courses.
Overall, the core curriculum issue is not developing into a question about how to categorize the core areas. Most people agree that the present trinity of Nat Sci, Soc Sci and Hum are too broad, and that a greater number of smaller categories are desirable.
But whether a new system has seven or eight divisions will be the result of a rather arbitrary decision.
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