Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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New Core Curriculum : Wumber of Hours Required Drops from 75 to 48 The 1971-72 school year marks an important change in the College of Arts and Sciences core curriculum. Implementing a proposal made by Dean Robert McNamara, S. J., the Academic Council has reduced re- quired courses to a total of 48 hours. The core curriculum is organized into four major areas: natural sci- ence, behavioral science, humani- ties, and the expressive arts. These components represent the position that man relates intellectually to natural and human phenomena through these four modes of thought and expression. Courses in the natural science CORE are aimed at the non-science major. Briefly, they attempt to show man's relation to the environment, his understanding of the relation- ship, how he controls the environ- ment and the rationale for the methods he has used in this continu- ing effort. Behavioral sciences, relative new- comers to the academic scene, focus the student on studies of modern cities, primitive societies, economic functions, political structures, the human psyche and how specific situations are investigated and classified. In the humanities core, as with the others, survey or introductory courses have been substituted by more substantive courses. English 101, for example, has been dropped as a requirement unless it is de- termined that the student needs work in this area. The expressive arts have expanded at Loyola to include creative writ- ing. drawing. painting, sculpture, music, theatre. speech and film. In the new core, students are required to take any two courses as long as they are actively engaged in the making of art products. Father McNamara contends that no student has the right to call himself a bachelor of arts or of arts science unless he has tried- and, to some extent succeeded- to think, to feel and to express himself as a scientist does, as a philosopher does, as a theologian does, as a historian does, and as a literary author or artist does. NEW CORE CURRICULUM FORMER REQUIREMENTS Mathematics, Chemistry, Natural Science Physics, Biol09Y. Natural Science or Anthropology 6 hours Behavioral Sociologg, Political 'Sci- . ence, conomlcs, sy- swence chology, or Anthropology English 6 hours lLiterature courses may be selected from the De- 9 hours partments of English Classical Studies, or Modern Languages. Three hours must be in a course Humanities treating literature origi- nally written in a language other than Englishi Philosophy 9 hours Theology 9 hours leffective September, '72l History ' Bhours Expressive Arts, i.e., Communication Arts, Fine Arts, Theatre, English E-xpmssive Ads lcreative writingl 3 hours Foreign Language not required Political Science not required Sociology not required Mathematics, Natural Science or Anthropology 6 hours Classics, History or Social Science English Philosophy Theology History Speech Foreign Language Political Science Sociology 6 hours 1 2 hours 1 5 hours 12 hours 6 hours 3 hours 1 2 hours 3 hours 3 hours

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Two New Programs for Loyola Arts 81 Sciences: Afro-A merican Studies Program During the spring of 1971, Loyola University created its Afro-Ameri- can Studies Program. The goals of this program are: 1l to make known the many contributions of Black people in all aspects of American life: 2l to develop and carry out meaningful research into some of the current problems confronting Afro-Americans: and 3l to partici- pate in community action programs. At the present time, the program works in conjunction with the de- partments of Anthropology, English, Fine Arts, History, Sociology and the Urban-Ethnic Studies Program. The program offers the following courses: in Anthropology we have The Peoples of Africa and Afro- Americansg in English we have Black Authors since 1914: in Fine Arts we have Afro-American Art History, in History, Afro-American History before 1865 and Afro- American History since 1865 g and in Urban Ethnic Studies Program LoyoIa's Program for Urban-Ethnic Studies aims to facilitate under- graduate teaching, research and ac- tion involving urban problems and ethnic group life by initiating ac- tivities not easily accomplished within the traditional university! school! department stmctu re . It directs its attention not only towards the structures, processes and prob- lems of urban society but also to- wards the widely varied ethnic cul- tures found in the United States. The Program's goals are: 1D to co- ordinate throughout the undergradu- ate divisions of the University those scholarly activities focusing on ur- banization, urbanism and the life styles and cultures of those ethnic groups which have tended to con- centrate in cities, Zi to cross dis- ciplinary lines and initiate new ur- ban-ethnic teaching, research and policy studies to broaden and strengthen the undergraduate cur- riculum, 3l to sponsor university- community conferences examining ethnic group life: and 4l to develop community action projects and com- munity laboratories in the city in order that we might more directly Sociology, we have Sociology of the Afro-American. These courses are offered at both the Lake Shore and Lewis Towers campuses and also in the University College. Being an interdisciplinary program, it offers a unique opportunity to all of the students to learn about a large segment of society which heretofore they may have had very little or no contact. participate in the solutions to urban problems. Courses in the Urban-Ethnic Stud- ies Program are cross-referenced with many of those in the depart- ments of Education, Political Sci- ence, Sociology, Economics, History, Fine Arts, Communication Arts, Philosophy, Psychology and the Afro-American Studies Program. Since September of 1971, the Pro- gram has offered a major to Loyola students in Urban-Ethnic Studies.