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Well over a dozen departments plan to submit secondary field proposals to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) for approval by next fall.At least seven departments will consider allowing members of the class of 2007 to declare a secondary field retroactively. Departments have the final say in determining whether next year’s seniors will be able to declare a secondary field in the spring, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71. The full Faculty approved the Curricular Review legislation to implement secondary fields a month ago.Secondary fields will not appear on diplomas...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday to institute a “secondary field” option (essentially, a minor) as the first in a series of curricular review proposals brought forth by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC). Theoretically, these secondary fields could function similarly to the way citation and certificate programs function now, giving students credit for in-depth work in a non-concentration field by taking four to six classes in a specific area. On the surface, the concept of the secondary concentration seems appealing. Students are getting recognition for the work they?...
...offer secondary fields to students as soon as next year, faculty members said after yesterday’s vote.Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote in an e-mail last night that he expects departments to begin submitting proposals to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) this summer. The EPC, which must approve each proposal, will start considering them in the fall, he added.But each department will set its own pace, and many faculty members said they were uncertain when their departments would be ready to offer secondary fields. Many departments had already begun discussing...
...still need to be ironed out, such as whether courses taken for a secondary field can be double counted for Core requirements or a language citation. After becoming bogged down in debate on that issue yesterday, professors finally voted to refer the question back to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), the group that drafted the legislation. The EPC was asked to report back to the Faculty in the fall. But despite disagreements over the finer points of the legislation, yesterday’s vote left many professors and administrators beaming, after months of controversy dogging University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...concentration choice by a semester. If the legislation passes at today’s Faculty meeting, these curricular review proposals could go into effect next year. The UC passed the Concentration Reform Act on a 32-1 vote, urging professors to approve the proposals that the Education Policy Committee (EPC) has submitted to the Faculty. Although the council’s approval is not required for the changes to be implemented, last night’s vote is the latest signal of strong student support for the EPC reforms. In a Crimson poll of 354 undergraduates last month, 60 percent...