Should Brown offer a 3-year BA/BS?

mgcsinc
Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:17:01 +0000

That’s not a core, that’s a distribution requirement. Distribution requirements have their own problems, and are either (a) so weak as to accomplish basically none of their goals, or (b) strong, but fixed in a way that means that the students of 2013 are educated according to 1960 (or 1980, or 2000)'s idea of a well-rounded person.

If you have some time, take a look at the criticisms of these types of curricula in [The Magaziner-Maxwell Report](http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=mfV2gJJ2n7kC#v=onepage&q&f=false).