Word: junior
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...sense, this sounds like the thesis, but it is different in two respects: first, it would have to eliminate conflicting commitments during the intensive period of production; and it should be available in sophomore and junior, as well as senior, years, to all students, not merely honors candidates. Certainly scope and subject would be less ambitious in the second and third years than in the senior year, but one has only to look at the average College Board scores and I.Q. ratings to know that almost any student admitted to Harvard is capable of undertaking more than one challenging independent...
This new twelve-week reading period would provide opportunity for the student and his tutor to work together closely, (tutorial would be omitted for fall and spring terms) and at the end of the study, the student in both sophomore and junior years would have to produce one 10,000 word paper on a subject within his own area of concentration and one 5,000 word paper on a subject outside his own area. In senior year, the period would be used to produce only the thesis, a paper of 15,000 to 25,000 words. General examinations would follow...
...effect of this change is to put the poorer student in a more precarious position. Previously, if he failed his Generals in his junior year, he could get a degree by passing the special examinations senior year. But now, if he fails Part II of the Generals his senior year, he has no second chance...
...specific courses within the department; secondly, he said the department wanted some basis for comparing all its concentrators; and thirdly, he said the department wanted to maintain contact with all its concentrators. Previously, the non-honors students had tended to drift away after they had finished their Generals in junior year...
Since all the Department's courses are somewhat specialized, May said, the Generals will probably require additional outside reading by most students. Although he realized this might be considered a hardship by this year's junior class, he noted a compensating element in the fact that students will only have to answer questions from two of the areas in Part II, rather than from three, as before...