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Some schools are merely tightening their general education requirements without substantially altering their form. Berkeley's Letters and Sciences program will require the Class of '83 to fulfill a math requirement stressing logic and quantitative reasoning as well as a foreign language requirement. The school, which already requires American history and American institutions courses, is also modifying its Nat Sci, Soc Sci, Hum distribution requirement to make students take courses in both areas outside of their major...
...widespread return of basic skills requirements like math, languages and writing, prompts some observers to say colleges are moving "back to basics." Roderic B. Park '53, dean and provost of the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley, says educators dislike the term "back to basics" because "it implies that you have joined a movement of dinosaurs who don't have modern liberal education in mind. It's a movement that extends from good intentions to some very conservative ideas." Nevertheless, with high schools providing increasingly uneven preparation, college faculties are realizing they must teach students "with the short attention...
...youngsters of the Hispanic community make up one-third of Bade County's pupil population, and they score well above other Bade students on English and math achievement tests. They have ready access to bilingual education, and in 1976, 72% went on to college...
Enrollment in several other large courses, including Chemistry 20a, "Organic Chemistry," and Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art," also dropped slightly compared to last year. The Top Ten Economics 10 993 Hum 9a 628 Nat Sci 110 504 Soc Sci 160 429 Nat Sci 19 413 Math 1a 412 Fine Arts 13 403 Astronomy 8 396 Chemistry 20a 380 Soc Sci 15a 374 Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," led the College's list of most popular courses again this year...
Before they can take any major actions, the committee members must wait for Rosovsky to appoint more members in the next week or two. Only two subcommittees--for Expository Writing and the math requirement--now have all their members...