Word: ungradedness
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It will also have to decide whether students taking ungraded tutorial or independent study should be allowed to take a second ungraded course.
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 Government Department, which initiated the move toward ungraded senior tutorials, awarded exactly the same grade on thesis and tutorial last year. Departments with a similar system, such as the Economics Department, should adopt the new program to protect their students from double jeopardy grading. But other departments, without a...
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.