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College Offers 51 New Courses

At the meeting of the academic
faculty last Thursday, the Committee
on Academic Legislation
presented its report recommending
the addition of 51 new
courses in the College of Arts
and Sciences.

There will be 22 courses
dropped from those offered in
the Record and changes in course
number or description in 14
others.

Beginning next year, a student
may take Polish 1-2 and 3-4,
as well as Serbo-Crontian 1-2
and 3-4. These two courses do
not, as yet, satisfy the language
requirement for the baccalaureate
degree.

All 14 courses in the Department
of Religious Studies have
been dropped while 27 new ones
have been added.

Other changes made by the
Committee on Academic Legislation
which go into effect immediately
include:

1. Authority granted to the
Dean of the College to admit as
special students a restricted number
of students, not candidates
for a degree, who are to be members
of a special program.

2. The six semester-hours of
elective credit towards a College
degree in the student's major subject
must now be approved by
both the adviser in the student
major department and the Dean
of the College. Before this change
approval was required by only
one of these.

3. The grade "In." now represents
incomplete work and is a
grade that is strongly discouraged
and will rarely be given; explanation
for its use in a grade report
by the instructor must be made
to the dean.