For this reason, and no other, has the Women's Political Caucus been created. The possibility of a new curriculum has great ramifications in both the student and faculty cultures at Georgetown, consequences for the prestige of Georgetown and the value of her education. Particularly troublesome, since the matter is of the utmost importance, is that three subjects, English literature, Philosophy and Theology, are virtually eliminated from the core for the first time in the history of the University. English contains the Aristotelian liberal arts within the analysis of literature, while at the same time exploring the richness of the human condition. Philosophy provides an integration of all the arts, sciences and religion into a cohesive whole.
Theology seeks to answer the highest questions.
This is the view which has shaped the Jesuit education in the Ratio Studiorum since the sixteenth century and the Georgetown experience since its inception. The new proposal, from the summary provided, seems to seek to address pairs of themes without relation to the hierarchy of knowledge. This is a shift in the very conception of the Georgetown education as a liberal education for the whole person, body and soul. Yet such a radical departure, according to the office of the University Provost, is in keeping with the Jesuit nature of Georgetown, while abandoning that tradition for a system used by some of the most highly secularized universities in the whole Republic. But more important yet is that such a monumental change, change such as has not been seen since the integration of the college, can pass as an obscure non-issue.