University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The College program for the past tlei'a-ule ezln he. summed up in the relatively simple equation: AB. equals general edut'atinn. Most 0f the new prngrums which go into effect next autumn. and whit-h will aim be available to students now in lhe University. yield a somewhat more rmnplii'aled equation: AB. tor 5.3.. as the. case may hel equals general edut-ation plus specialized education. That is, students entering the University from now on will, in addition to re.- ceiving a substantial and integrated general etlueatinn in the College. have an opportunity to inelucle within their undergraduate enurRe slurly in history. 01' geolo- gyt 0r botany. or economics, 01' other speriul fields. It in expeeted that theqe joint huehelnrls programs. eomhining general and specialized education. van normally he completed in fan r years following grud- uatimi from high st'hrml. The basic equation mentioned earlier e A.B. equals general education e i5 nut to he diseartled in the new curriculum. For the student who wishes to devote ilir- undergraduate Clillt'ulilltl tu developing skills and acquiring perspective in the lilieral arts and sciences, the Ct'allege will offer its own luu'helur's degree. program. In this program, al'ler mmpleting the required general courses in the College. the stu- dent will enter a yearlong tutorial course in which he will pursue mm'e lhm'oughly am individual interest which he has discovered during his earlier years in the College. In individual Hllltlit'h' under the direction of his tutor, the student will take a limited number of courses pertinent to his special interest, will write a bachelor-s essay on a topic suggested hy llllh interest, and will have an unusual amount of freeilnm to make use of the resources of the University. The. College has long been interested in experimenting with dif- ferent methods of developing students, capacity for independent work; pi'eceptmtial courses and the hon- ors program represented earlier attach! on this proh- lem. The new tutorial program may provide an effective solution hy adding to the curriculum in gen- eral education a real opportunity for the student to work independently in a field that he. has ehcsen and, to some extent, defined. Top right: Smiling John Davey, Demi- of Students in the col- lege. Bottom right: fuseph Schwab, William Rainey Harper Professor of Natural Sciences. :

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Severn! of rho arn'clvs on Chicago Education which. follow were u-WerH: by members of Hm administration and faculty of the schools. Karin Humor mu given complete editorial freedom. As a rcsul'! the mrinfm differ in both subject maner am! rreamrent. I: THE COLLEGE Author Robert. Streetcar became Dean of Ike Coffege lhis winter when Dean Ward joined the Ford Foundai tion. The new Dean reaches English in the College. By RmaI-rn'r STREI-z'rI-HL Dmn of 1M CnHPgP h HUME crenicrs 0f thc: highvr learning. thv Imdor- gmtluarlc i UFI'il'llllJlll has a lletw-y to slay put. in hv al slalimmry uml urnunmntul feature of lhe academic landscape, juhl like lht- flagpoh- and the slulm- 0f Mina Mult'r in frnnl of llm shult'nl union building. This is a grml mnvenicncc for whims of yearhnnkn. Una: they get in type a reasonably ac- curate elvmunl 0f n-hul lhv aluulmnic: program i5. 1ht'i1' annual vhnre of revision is not at all taxing: freshen up a metaphor here and HIPI'H. overhaul the syntax. and include mention of the new senior smninar de- signed to integrate the work in animal hushanrlry emcl philoaophy Hhe course ulrmdy popularly knmvn 0n campm as Ham Hf Hegr-IL This tag! course is: not available to the editors of CAP AND GUWN. The University of Chivago. from the lime of William Raincy Harper, the first presi- dent, haH maintained an awtivc interest in undergrad- uate education: the livelinms: of this mnvcrn has resulted in frequent. sometimes drastic. reshaping oi the currir-uhnn. The year we are :rhl'onicling hag heen no exception 10 this traditinn of inquiry. argument. and alteration in undergraduate education at Chicago. The Iasl time we looked. the B.A. was one place; since them it has moved a year or two farther along in the studenfs career. The itinerant scholar has been a Stock figure since the dawn of learning. hut at Chi- cago even the degrees are poripatetic. 2U

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As a result of the eunienlar Changes of the paint yea 1,, then. the Chicago student will hate to :leeitle for l11111selfwhat he wants l'Ilr- haehelorie degree to lltl'lllLll? and to mean. He may ehuose t0 det'ole his years Of undergraduate study 111 general education in the Col- lege. with the year of added tutorial work. If he is; accepted for graduate unrk in lam business. mt lihrary science. 01' if he enteru' the Social Scieneen Division. he ltiay, 1111011 r-uwessi'nl eu111pletion of at year Of atl- Vanced study. FH't-thtf the new College BA. Ur he may wish to ClJI'Illtlllt general educaticm with spe- cialized we-rk in the lJiviAions 0f the l'hnnunitiee. Biological Sciener-s. nr Physical Seienees. Whichever tlerisjun llll' etudent makes. he will have eonsicleruhh: n-xperieltee with the unusual eur- rieulum which College students ltttt't' known during the past ten years. Although the amount of College work varies- somewhat from program to program. all the new pathway; to the hnehelorie degree were ere- aletl in the light til the lfnivrsrnity's mntinning mn Vietimt that at thoughllttlly-planned ancl vigornusly taught general ultn'zttinn lH essential In any serious undergraduate progrmn. Urc'linal'ily. tum the work in general erlurralinn will he heavily mntrmitrntetl i Iltt' early years of the c-111'1'ir.-11l11111 m that the utntlent who is lltttlez'irh-Il allmut hi.- lnlure t'ltlll'r-t' will have 21 chance in reflw-I. to investigate. and In 1111111111119 helht't- making 1111 hin 1111111l. Ix; 't-S. Above: ttThe Lonely Cmn-rlf' Dm-r'd Riesnmn and Rene! Denney. ca-authars of Left: Cobb Lerture Hall. Although the development of the curricula out- lined ahmre was spurred by the desire to achieve. more effective artienlation of general and speeialized edu- cation for the student who comes to Chicago after finishing high selinol. the University will continue to welemne qualified entrants who have mmpleted the sophomore or junior year of high sehonl. In the case of high :ehnnl sophomores these programs uill 11019- mallV 191111ire a total of five. team of study. palt or all of the additional new being dext'oted to studies flom Wllltll qualified high- school g1 dtluates are ex- empted hy plaeement test 01' hecanse of the nature of their haehelmiis programs. The high-sehool sopho- more thus saves at leaet a full year. Thm. the event; of the past year have produced a Te-tiefinitinn and relocation of the Chicago bach- elm q degree. ac well as a new and closer relation between the College and the reset of the Universitv. The new titrettigmnents do not clisplaee 9 instead. they inempntate 9 the hest elements of the Univer- sitfs work in general education. which 111ight he enumerated as ft'tllows: First. 1111 integrated program of liberal studies, l01'11111h1tetl and taught hy a College Faculty whose major intereats annl energies are devoted to this task. Seemnl, 11 traulilion of placement tests which take acemmt not only of the entering student's formal schooling hut ulm of knowledge and emupetence he