Four New GE Classes To Be Given in Fall

A new elementary level Social Sciences course and three additional upper-level courses highlight changes in the General Education program for next year, as announced by Phillip H. Rhinelander '29, Chairman of the Committee on General Education.

Social Sciences 6, Freedom and Authority in the Modern World, the new elementary course, will be taught by John J. Conway, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Eliot House, and Stephen R. Graubard, Executive Secretary of the Committee on General Education. Both are presently lecturers in Social Sciences 5.

Covers 300 Years

The new courses will examine the theories of freedom and authority developed over the past 300 years and their social and political applications. Particular emphasis will be given to a comparison of French and English society from 1660 to 1763, the French and U.S. revolutions, and the ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11.

The Humanities courses are included in the three new upper-level offerings. Humanities 121, Contemporary Christian Thought and Philosophy, will be a spring term half course taught by John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy. The course will be a critical study of religious thought and its affiliated philosophy, emphasizing realism, naturalism, and existentialism.

Humanities 122, St. Paul and Western Religious Tradition will be taught by Sydney E. Ahlstrom, presently a lecturer in Social Sciences 5. The fall term will study the doctrines of St. Paul and their interpretation during successive epochs of Western intellectual history.

The only new Natural Science course is 116, Basic Concepts of Mathematics, to be given by Andrew M. Gleason, assistant professor of Mathematics. The course will introduce non-mathematicians, to modern mathematical analysis and point out the tremendous power mathematics gives the sciences.