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Article: General Education in the Social Sciences: Centennial Reflections on the College of the University of Chicago.
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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This is a fascinating, insightful, and instructive historical narrative and analysis of a unique approach to general education in the social sciences. The editor, John J. MacAloon, explains that, "this volume explores the history and contemporary practice of general education in the College of the University of Chicago. Its publication acknowledges the centennial celebration of a university known for its long preoccupation with the place of general education in American undergraduate learning." The university's centennial is the sixtieth year of "Social Sciences 2," one part of an earlier sequence of social science courses given in the Chicago college, and the focus of ...