ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS THERE is one burial that I have to protest. There is a slow, but certainly deliberate, effort to bury the humanities and the social sciences. I am referring to the alarming global trend, which found its dramatic manifestation when the University Council of UP Diliman voted to reduce its General Education, or GE courses, to a minimum of 21 units, almost more than half of its current level at 45 units. The impact of this will not be on the students who are taking up academic programs in the arts, humanities and the social sciences Majors in these programs are assured of getting the kind of education that will not only prepare them for their academic disciplines, but will...
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