Word: ungradedness
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted last week to allow ungraded senior tutorials for credit. Each department which wants to institute this practice, however, must apply to the Committee on General Education for final approval.
The upgraded tutorial system will give several departments the opportunity to eliminate the current practice of giving the same grade in both tutorial and to the thesis--a seemingly pointless redundancy. Just like the freshman seminar program, the ungraded tutorial will not be computed in a student's over-all...
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted last Tuesday to allow Departments to give ungraded Senior tutorials for credit.
The decision empowers the Committee on General Education to approve plans of individual Departments. The arrangement will go into effect immediately, and those Departments which decide to give ungraded Senior Tutorial will not give grades for this semester's work.
Arthur A. Maas, chairman of the Government Department, said yesterday that his department would give ungraded Senior Tutorial because grading both a thesis and the tutorial was redundant. He said, however, that Junior tutorial would probably remain graded because there is nothing in it comparable to the thesis.