Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur Smithies, Chairman of the Department, met frequently this summer and again this fall with a Department Committee on Undergraduate Education appointed last spring. Headed by Professor Dunlop, members of the group are Professors Chamberlain, Duesenberry, and Meyer, Assistant Professors Gill and Lefeber, and instructors Baer and Berman.
The changes are clearly tending to make the course less an introduction into the Department and more a General Education course in the social sciences. The stress, in the attempt to interest the non-concentrator through presentation of historical and topical issues, is now upon political economy rather than upon...
Faced, however, with the task of teaching its concentrators some of the methods and techniques of the economist, the department has moved towards increasing utilization of Sophomore and Junior tutorial for this purpose. The analytic material ejected from Ec. 1 has found refuge in Sophomore tutorial, while Ec. 98 (Junior...
The most perplexing problems facing the Department occur in the area of the middle group courses. To some extent they are aggravated by the Department's quantative approach to the number of concentrators, with its concern to retain the marginally interested student within the Department. And again the nature of...
There is general agreement, according to Dunlop, that the undergraduate program as part of a liberal arts program should not be a pre-professional training. Disagreement, however, becomes manifest quickly after that statement. Many members of the department, for instance, feel that the best concentrators, the potential future economists, should...