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The mission statement says one of the goals of the college is to encourage diversity in perspectives. The current divisional requirements don't really reach that goal. People who are not interested in certain topics may take classes on them, in order to fulfill requirements. However, the students will not take these classes seriously because the only thing they care about is getting through them. You can't force students to care about something that they don't, but the divisional requirements at least try to expose students to various fields, which I think is a good thing.

      Also, the proposal does not intend to change the classes that are offered in any way; it only asks for faculty to examine their courses and choose the best-fitting approach. Although Imagination and Interpretation may sound better than Division III or whatever, if the content of the classes are not going to be changing, there is little use in wasting so much effort arguing about what they are called.