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...first draft legislation to be presented regarded the establishment of secondary fields. Under the proposal, created by the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC), students would be able to take four to six half courses in a field other than their primary concentration and receive credit for it on their academic transcript...
Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71, the EPC member who presented the proposal, said that the committee intended for secondary concentrations to serve students who have a desire to study more than one field without having to also complete the integrated thesis required of joint concentrators...
...about 5 percent. A new addition to the proposal will require students to have a documented meeting with at least one and up to three concentration advisers in the spring of their freshman year, Goldfarb said.Goldfarb is a member of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC).The committee decided to require students to meet with concentration advisers a semester early because of concerns that under the new system, science concentrators would not receive adequate advising. The Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) approved several statements in late January, one of which criticized the EPC proposal.The...
...jeopardy. In the past few weeks, there have been calls for delay and even abandonment of the review’s recommendations, as if the curricular reports are the mandate of the central administration and derive no support outside of it.As the student member of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), the group responsible for the recent set of proposed changes to the structure of concentrations, I would be very disheartened to see the review compromised, not simply because of all the work that has gone into the current proposals, but also because I believe that our recommendations will significantly improve...
...Several Council members said they are “enthusiastic” and “eager” to advance the review.On March 14, the full Faculty will meet in University Hall to review the recommendations of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC).“We will...be resuming our discussion of the EPC’s proposals to change the date of concentration choice and to establish optional secondary fields,” Berkman Professor of Psychology and Council member Elizabeth S. Spelke wrote in an e-mail.Ulrich said the review is progressing...