CURRICULUM CHANGES . Continued from Page One the student’s time required, but by the ,number of lectures given. This plan is at variance with the development of honors or independent work. More- over, as it stands now, the evaluation is often inaccurate. Some _ two-and- three-hour courses require as much outside work as is asked for many five- hour courses. The result is that some students are genuinely overworked be- cause each of: several instructors: is exacting more than the normal amount of preparation. A final difficulty was discovered from the point of view of planning courses and selecting ‘a major. With our present allotment of five hours to _First Year work, -and our numerous required subjects, a Freshman or Sophomore has no opportunity to dis- cover quickly the-subject in. which she wishes to specialize. By the time she has provided for her required subjects and -has taken her German (which is no longer required for entrance and so usually has to be learned in college), she’ has time left for only one other subject in each of the first two years. Consequently, unless she knows at en- trance what she wishes to major in, she often cannot decidé on a major in time to do. advanced work. With these facts in mind, the Un- ~ dergraduate Curriculum... -Committee submitted to the Kaculty Committee a plan worked out by Miss Perkins and Miss Lake. This plan recom- - mended a graduated system of credit| in the major subject and the require- ment for every student of at least one advanced course. As it will be seen, these two principles are included in the following plan which has passed the Faculty. ~General Principles of the New Plan: A. A substitution of the wnit for the hour. system, each unit to representa le S tudent’s time for one year. B. A_ re-evaluation of courses in terms of the—unit“and—a=limitation 2of the number of short courses a: student can take. ; C. A reorganization of the major work to allow, for an _ increasing amount of time as the work -becomes more advanced. A. Specific points: A. Substitution. of the unit for the* hour system. 1. A one-unit: course equals one- fourth of the student’s time for the year, Or approximately a four-hour course. On the basis of the forty- hour week, a one-unit course would re- quire of each student at least ten hours of work, including the class meetings. 2. A _ half-unit course equals one- eighth of the student’s time for .the year and would be about the equivalent of the present two-hour course. A one-unit course given for one semester only would also catty a one-unit year course taken for one semester only, except by special permission from the department in question. In no case would they receive credit for a half- unit course taken for one semester only. No student would be allowed to take more than two half-unit year courses at the same tire. od 3." Other courses...would be ‘evalu- d ated according ‘to the préportion of the student’s time required.. The normal program would then be four year- units, and the maximum number. of units allowed would. be four and one- half. The minimum-number of- units required for a degree would be six- teen. B. Re-evaluation of courses in terms of the proportion of the students’ time required. 1, Half-units Only light courses could ‘be considered half-units. An in- structor could count on not more than three hours of outside work, and many courses at present counted as two hours would be re-evaluated as one unit, or even one and one-half units. One-hour courses would either be - dropped or be. expanded to a _half- unit. : 2. One-unit courses would be some- - what heavier than the present three- hour, and a little lighter than the pres- ent five-hour course.“ ~Threé lectures | would be included in the normal sched- ule; seven hours of outside work would be required. One hour of group dis- cussion or conference could be added whenever it seemed advisable. (ne - 2 i ~~ tip a nay enone ee aes ie ew P > a | Second Year Work to count as 1%. or a 2 units. Advanced Work to count as 1 or 2 .. units, : aa Evaluation of the present Required Work. A. The Required Philosophy ‘and Psychology would count, as one-half unit each. B. The Required English would be counted as one unit in each year. The Required Second Year Literature will be renamed First Year English, thus becothing uniform,’ with the required Latin and Science. The present First and Second Year English will thus be- come Second Year and Advanced, re- spectively. C. The Ancient Language require- ment would be fulfilled by taking First Year Latin (one unit), First Year Greek (one unit), or Elementary Greek (one and one-half units). D. The’ First Year sciences would count as.one unit each, but neither lec- ture nor laboratory work will be cut down except at the wish of the de- partnient. The present schedule al- lows for three lectures and six hours of laboratory or other class work. Under the new plan, there would. be available the same amount of sched- uled time, and an additional hour for preparation. Divisions of Units in Major Work. A. Under this plan the First Year work in any department would’ be given in a single course,..and. if. two subjects-must be included they would be given one semester at a time, each to count as a half-year unit. ° B..Second._._ Year _. Work, counted as one and onechalf units, could be given either as one heavy course, or as two courses, of one unit and one-half unit,’ respectively. When counted as two units, Second Year work would be given in two one-unit courses. : : C. The Advanced work can be eval- uated according tothe needs—of the departnient-and the individual students. The normal arrangement would con- sist in courses counted as one. unit each, The- credit for—-an—advanced course could, however, be expanded. Example: Advanced Economics :Lit erature of Socialism—at ® present counting as a three-hour course. This course would continue to meet three hours a week, but could be taken in three different ways: (1) by a Merit student as her only unit of advanced work; . (2) by a credit student as one of two advanced units, the other to be another advanced course; * (3) by an especially qualified stu- dent as one and one-half units, the half unit to be accounted for by inde- pendent work in the same field.. This plan would be useful. in the case of departments which do not give honors work, Not more than_one-half-unit course may be offered ‘as advanced work. General Requirements for Major Work. Minimum number of units allowed o $Y (1 in First Year, 1%4 in-Second Year, 1 in Advanced.) Minimum number of units re- quired in “Major and_ Allied Work 6% (3% in Major, 3 in Allied work) Note: Six and one-half units is .406]° gf the total number as opposed to our present requirement of .417. Requirements for the A. B. Degree. Required courses: MOUSE: 5. ccssiiliccsssscstriiies 2. units Ancient Language......1 or 1% units Ue ee ies 1 unit Philosophy and Psy- : (nM =. 1 unit Major and Allied sub- _ SRNR cositanivetettin ccccsiare 6% to ll eS iiss w4% or less 16 units a | German, First Year Spanish, and First witen | THE COLLEGE NEWS Page § Elementary Cotrses: 1. .Elementary Greek, ‘in order to cover enough ground to enable stu- dents to enter the First Year Greek, would have to be evaluated as one and one-half units. | 2. For similar reasons, Eleméntary Year Italian would continue to, meet five times a week; but they would be evaluated as one unit. The present three-hour course in Elementary Ger- man. would be counted as ane-half unit. . Visitors Because this plan: cuts down the number of free electives a student may take, a plan for visiting classes has been approved. Students » who wish to attend a course regularly without being form- ally. registered must obtain permission from the Dean. No one may attend a course for which she is not. eligible as a regular student. The Dean is ex- pected to limit the number of courses a-student may visit; and any instructor may notify the Dean that his courses are not open to such students, — Note: This rule does not in any way affect the present regulations in regard to auditors. The Schedule Committee of the Faculty is working on a new organi- zation of the schedule which was de- vised by Miss -Gardiner. The recom- mendaffans,-of—the, committee, which have. been pcnantad is the. Faculty, in- clude the following criticisms and sug- gestions: It is clear that the present schedule has_great_ disadvantages, The concen- tration of three-hour courses on Mon- day, ‘Wednesday and Friday results in very uneven schedules for Freshmen and Sophomores. Most Freshmen have fouf classes on these days and only two on Tuesday and Thursday. Many Sophomores have classes on Monday from 8 A. M. till 1, and—ther| laboratory from 2 to 4 (Psychology at 8, Elementary German at 9, Eng- lish at 10, Science at 11 or 12, and an elective in the other hour), . More- over, .becausé of the crowded ten and} eleven o’clock hours, many students cannot elect at the same time courses which really should be taken together. The “unit plan” will lend itself to a more flexible schedule in which many of the existing evils will be remedied. Since First Year courses will normally have only three class meetings a week, all First Year ~gnq other , one-unit courses -can be scheduled ‘in double three-hour blocks, making it possible for a student to take.two such courses at the same hour. In order to find room for these dou- ble three-hour blocks, the Faculty have approved the utilization of Wednesday afternoon from two until six o’clock for scheduled meetings of classes. This change will make possible the elimina- tion of .eight o’clock. classes which the Faculty considers most undesirable from the point of view of the ‘teacher; the holding of chapel to 8:30 A. M., THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL | DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A Professional Schoo] for College Graduates The Academic Year for 1929-80 Opens Monday, October 7, 1929 et ' eyes HENRY ATHERTON FRosT, Director 58 Church St., Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard Square . Compliments of B. & G. Creaners & Dyers 869 LancasTER AVENUE Prone: Bryn Mawr 1018 BRYN MAWR, PA. Catering to School. Girls coc — HENRI’S . . . The A few of the intrigu- ing dishes the menu will reveal— ° Lobster Filet of Sole, Marguery Chicken Patty a la Reine Many others, too... _ French Hand-Made Candies Henri alsé makes the most delicious, tempting French Hand-Made Choco- ‘lates and Bon Bons, fresh every day Come Here, conveniently located to both theatre and shopping districts, the elite young college women gather to enjoy Thermidor —_ Henri’s famous FrenchCuisine. Whether for luncheon, dinner or tea with Petie Fours, you and your friends will rejoice in its charming Parisian atmosphere. College Girls’ Rendezvous in New York make your next appointment here. | and scheduling classes again onthe hour, with a ten-minute interval be- tween. : Eight groups of: classes meeting three hours a week and four groups of classes meeting five hours a week are made. possible by the ‘arrangement. For convenience the following termi- nology is used: . Groups_A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H de- note classes meeting three times a. week. Group AB, CD, EF, GH’ denote classes meeting five or six times a week. Two-hour courses might be sched- uled in any of the three-hour groups. The various groups will be sched- uled as follows: “ Mt. OW. the es A te ‘iy | | aN dR SC -p- 7... apes ee de rt &: 2:2 CREASES G H G.G:H ] : 2 B phatase Lab Lab D Lab Lab 4 ee 5 ni H The following table indicates the wider range in selection of courses by the student.’ -New Schedule Present schedule * 4 groups 2-hr. courses 16 groups 4 groups 3-hr. courses 8 groups 4 groups 5-hr. courses 4 groups 0 groups 6-hr. courses 4 groups * This does not include the present 8 o'clock groups, of the afternoon hours which are used at present for only advanced and elective work. Advanced courses, electives, etc., may, if desired, meet in the two and three o'clock houts on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Schedule” I; on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in Schedules II and III. The inclusion in the aca- demic schedule of--thefoir and five olclecle! bien on one afternoon meets with the consent of the Department of Physical Education; but it is desirable” that on the remaining four “days the students be free for recreation after four o'clock. For sectioned classes, such as First Year Latin, Elementary German, Grammar, etc., the divisiorrs could be put into different groups, leaving a student seven groups from. which to— choose three-hour courses, so that, al- though taking a required, or generally elected course, she’ would not be re- stricted. jn the choice of her other work, English Students Cast Ballots For ‘Happy Life’ The results of the nation-wide poll on the “Happy Life” was announced recently b¥the National Union of Stu- dénts in England at their winter ban- quet in London, where the Prince of Wales was the guest and speaker. The ballot was organized in ari: effort to raise money for the N. U. S.‘and suc- cessfully achieved this end. Competitors were asked to choose one point out of a list of fifteen which in their opinion was most conducive to a happy life, and arrange ten of them in order of importance in providing basis for the happy life. ° “A sound constitution” stood at the head of the list as the one factor most important in achieving a happy life, according to the vote of the English students. _The following points‘ re- ceived. a great number-of-yvotes-as-im-—— portant factors: A sense of humor, a congenial occupation, an assured fu- ture, a charming wife or husband, a blameless reputation, 400 pounds a year ($2000), a brilliant career, a_thick-skith—-——"— _a_good-eook;-a persuasive manner, ete —N, §. F. A. News Service.* — brighten the corner where YOU AREN'T - IGHTY FEW parents are hard- boiled:when ing about Sons who are away at College.: They may have found a lot of fault with you while you were around’ ‘(and* probably with good reason!), — ‘but just the same old Home Corner é they get to think- a ed isn’t half as bright as it used to be. glow about your with the more c Absence has ‘cast a sort of saintly august person! We feel that your finer sensibilities will make you want to‘ send some of that glow to the folks back home. And we have provided a: way for you to send some of it home, along’ heerful notes of your baritone voice. moments Just for tonight. would have as a maximum a five-hour lecture schedule, and would require at least nine hours of outside work. C. 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