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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.

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| Second Year Work to count as 1%. or

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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

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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;
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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: “

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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,

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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-

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portant factors: A sense of humor, a
congenial occupation, an assured fu-
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