Word: essays
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Changes have been made "to implement the Committee on Educational Policy proposals enacted last spring," McCloskey commented. These revisions include an essay for Honors juniors, a sophomore test, and required tutorial for credit during the junior year...
...addition, to tutorial for credit, juniors must write a satisfactory essay in order to remain in the Honors program. Although the nature of such an essay will not be determined fully for the next few months, it is probable that juniors will have a certain period of time near the end of the academic year for preparation...
Expanded reading in tutorial will provide the necessary background for the junior essay. "We do not expect students to do additional research," McCloskey commented, "since tutorial reading should be sufficient...
Students successfully passing this "test"--which has since been changed by a Faculty vote into some form of essay--would continue as Honors candidates, accomodated in most cases by individual tutorial during the junior year. The second round of qualifying examinations would come at the end of junior year in the form of a general examination encompassing "a broad knowledge of the techniques and methods in (a student's) field," tutorial work, and specific course material. Students who had failed their sophomore test would be permitted to take junior year qualifiers if they wished to try to regain entry into...
Coupled with these suggestions for upgrading tutorial at Harvard, the CEP further proposed an increase in the opportunities, if not time, for independent study. Fewer lectures, greater independent reading, and the replacement of written finals by an essay oral examination--together with more course reduction--were among the Committee's list of reforms...