The Cavalier daily. :: Thursday, April 3, 1969 :: University of Virginia Library

A new Achievement Program for
English majors, to be initiated next
year, has been announced by the
English Department. High performance
in a combination of regular
English course seminar work,
individual directed reading and the
final comprehensive examination
will entitle students to obtain these
awards, and all English majors will
be eligible.

Professors Kirsch and Hindburg
will meet present third-year English
majors and prospective majors Monday
night, at 8:00 p.m. in Cocke
Hall 15 to explain both the new
program, and a proposed increase in
individual directed reading course
and small seminars.

Declaration Of Major Due

In addition all rising third-year
students in the college are reminded
that, during the week of April
14-18, they should confer with
their Association Deans about declaring
a major or inform them of
their plans to transfer. These
students should first report to the
lobby of Old Cabell Hall between 2
o'clock and 5 o'clock each afternoon
between April 10 through 17,
and receive instructions about the
procedure.

The distribution of materials
will not take place on Founder's
Day, April 14. Association Deans
and Departmental Advisers will be
available according to their office
hours.

Rising third-year students who
do not declare majors may not
return to the College.

In the Woodrow Wilson Department
of Government and Foreign
Affairs, a report dealing with seven
areas of curriculum was submitted
to the faculty for review and was
approved.

The report results from the ad
hoc Faculty-Student Committee on
Curriculum Evaluation and deals
with prerequisites, major subject
requirements, new courses as a
matter of priority, new courses as a
matter of desirability, the honors
program, comprehensives, and a
permanent departmental faculty-student
committee.

Prerequisites

Regarding prerequisites for students
entering the department,
American Government 1 or International
Relations 1 is required to
major. The prerequisite was thus
cut from six to three hours.

Major Subject Requirements
With regard to the major subject
Subjects should complete American
Government in their second year.
The major subjects program in
Government will consist of twenty-seven
hours. Twelve hours of
related courses are required, no
more than six of which may be in
introductory courses, and none of
which may be used to fulfill a
university requirement.

Students electing to make Foreign
Affairs their Major Subject
should complete International Relations
in their second-year.

The major subjects program in
Foreign Affairs will consist of
twenty-seven hours in the departments
of Government and Foreign
Affairs. Twelve hours of related
courses are also required, subject to
the same rulings as those of
government.

The committee wished to clarify
that the twenty-seven hours must
be taken in the last two years, and
under no circumstances will a
prerequisite course count as part of
this time.

In addition they proposed that
Political Theory 151 and 152 be
reclassified under International Relations,
and a 100-level course in
international politics be introduced.

New Courses as a Matter of Priority

The committee felt that the
following courses should be instituted
in the 1969-70: An introduction
to political thought, The
Expansion of Political Theory 101
to two courses, a senior Thesis to
increase student-faculty relationships,
and a 100-level International
Politics course.

The committee also recommended
that the following courses
be instituted as soon as possible: a
course in minority and ethnic
politics, Government and the
American Economy and Foreign
Policy. Sub-Saharan Politics which
would deal with Africa, and Seminars.

There will be a meeting next
week for all Government and
Foreign Affairs majors.