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...issue. We disapprove of the increasing tendency to grant credit for performance on exams alone. We view college courses and projects as whole experiences whose value should rest at least as much in their interpersonal and broadening aspects as in the information absorbed and gauged by exams. Consequently, we recommend...
...course requirements in expository writing, a foreign language, and specific areas in General Education would be dropped. We believe that the objective of distribution of course work should be encouraged through guidance rather than coerced through course requirements. Our suggestions regarding expository writing are offered below. In addition, we recommend that Rules Relating to College Studies contain a set of guidelines outlining the sorts of skills and levels of understanding that characterize what one might reasonably think of as informed men and women: competence in English composition and at least one foreign language; a taste of English literature...
...final word on concentrations, we recommend that each department establish a student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Instruction to regularly review departmental teaching and requirements. Student members should be selected by lot from a pool of volunteer upperclassmen...
TUTORIALS: We recommend that ALL departments offer introductory group tutorials for students who want an overview of a particular discipline. Students most interested would be freshmen who want an introduction to a possible field of concentration and who want to be eligible for junior and senior tutorials. Juniors and seniors might take introductory tutorials as well. In our conception, these tutorials would be historically and methodologically oriented. Most would be directed by departmental teaching fellows, and where expedient they might be affiliated with particular Houses without restricting enrollment to House members. Material covered in these tutorials should be determined...
Each HCEP would also have authority to screen proposals for January Intensive Studies that are based in its House and to approve Independent Study and cross-registration petitions submitted by House members and freshmen affiliated with the House (We recommend below that each freshman be affiliated with a House...