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The purpose of the paper is to delineate a tertiary-level (undergraduate) educational curriculum in consonance with the very purpose of the university [1]: to ensure that every graduating student has been taken to the forefront of human knowledge.
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Mihram, G.A., Mihram, D. (1978). A Curriculum for General Systems Education. In: Klir, G.J. (eds) Applied General Systems Research. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3_71
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