Word: courseless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most discouraging developments of the fall has been the faculty's apparent loss of enthusiasm for independent study in upperclass education. Last year at this time Faculty members shouted the virtues of a courseless senior year, but now their emphasis seems to be on more and more requirements. The aim of such plans as qualifying examinations, required tutorial as a fourth course, is not requirements for their own sake, of course, but greater difficulty and prestige for honors work. One cannot quarrel with this goal, but the means by which some would attain it are alarming...
...fixed? There is nothing wrong with restricting it to honors candidates, provided one is clear of the standards required for honors candidacy. But why institute independence in the senior year? Discarding hour exams and some essays in the junior year curriculum will not prepare the student for a courseless senior year. Removing grades is not so much the aim as making the study more vital, and grades are a symptom as well as a cause of learning's failure to excite...
...could be given to insure adequate competition with courses, although a tutor who inspired respect would probably not need this club. The tutor should write a searching report on the student, a report carrying great weight in determining his status for the senior year, and his admission to a courseless program...
...that purpose, and when a plan is devised that will educate certain students, but are created for that purpose, and when a plan is devised that will educate certain students better, no inherent good in the course system remains for them. Obviously even a greatly expanded program of courseless study could not destroy the department's function; the advanced placement program should be looked on as a supplementary means of better suiting undergraduate study to the individual, not as a contending educational ideology. If Advanced Placement were expanded to effective proportions it could be one of the most fruitful curricular...
...Plan B will not work at Yale. Anymore than a Scholar of the House program for everyone would work. Plan B calls for a courseless curriculum, with no marks (except at the end of the sophomore year), and few class attendance requirements. We feel that Yale does not and never will have the student body or the faculty capable of handling such a plan. Not more than one per cent of any freshman or sophomore class would be truly worthy of benefiting from the idealistic and flexibility of Plan B. Students would be unable to 'dig in' and know where...
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