[2592] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
[Mit-talk] Recommendations for new GIRs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jessica H Lowell)
Fri Oct 13 16:11:25 2006
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:10:31 -0400
From: Jessica H Lowell <jessiehl@mit.edu>
To: mit-talk@mit.edu
Cc: r-h-t@mit.edu, ec-discuss@mit.edu, senior-house@mit.edu
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The Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons (the task force that was
reforming the GIRs) released its final report today.
Full Report (158 pages):
http://web.mit.edu/committees/edcommons/documents/TF_FullReport.pdf
Summary & Recommendations (11 pages):
http://web.mit.edu/committees/edcommons/documents/TF_SumRecs.pdf
There are some things I like in there, and some things I don't. I'm distressed
that, despite the fact that no student that I've spoken with favored the idea
(and many left comments on the feedback site to that effect), the Task Force
kept in their idea of a Freshman Experience humanities class - and in general,
I find the trend to regard freshmen as separate from the rest of the undergrads
disturbing. For the science core, there seem to have been two proposals favored
by some faction of the Task Force, and I like the one that they chose not to
endorse, that would have combined their computation & engineering GIR and their
project-based experience GIR and still required everyone to take, for instance,
chem and bio, better.
On the other hand, I like the idea of more streamlined procedures for students
to follow who want to study abroad, and merging the HASS distribution and CI-H
requirements.
What do others think?
- Jessie
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