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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION IN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES (3) The University Senate recommends: 1. T h a t students in the General Division may proceed to graduation without being required to take a foreign language. 2. That students who have successfully completed the first two years of the prescribed course in the General Division and who then transfer to the General Curriculum of the College may be considered as having completed the group requirements for graduation. 1 concur in these recommendations, which are in line with recommendations made by the American Council on Education Survey Commission. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has also recommended that the certificate of "Associate in A r t s " be awarded students who have completed the prescribed courses in the General Division and have credit in 60 academic hours of work with a grade average of not less than C. This recommendation is now before the Senate Committee on Educational Policy. If approved by the Senate and Board of Trustees it will carry out one more of the recommendations of the A.C.E. Survey Commission.

On motion of Mr. Fornof, these recommendations were adopted.

TWO-YEAR CURRICULUM IN SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM (4) The University Senate recommends to the Board of Trustees a request from the faculty of the School of Journalism for approval of a two-year emergency program in Journalism to be offered in addition to the present degree program, but which will lead to no other certification than that of completion of two years of college work. The proposed program is the result of studies conducted by, and recommendations made by, the National Council on Professional Education for Journalism. 1 A survey of newspaper personnel shows dangerous shortages in the newspaper fields. A survey of journalism students, made by the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism, shows that the Schools of Journalism will not provide a sufficient number of graduates to meet the shortage. The educational program is as follows: 1. Admission to the two-year emergency program shall be, in addition to the general University requirements, 3 units of English and either 2 units in a foreign language or 2 units in mathematics. 2. Proposed curricula are as follows: EDITORIAL CURRICULUM Freshman Year

FIRST SEMESTER HOURS SECOND SEMESTER HOURS

Rhetoric 1 3 Foreign Language 4 History, Science, or Mathematics... 3-5 Typography (Journ. 4) 2 Military Science (for men) 1 Hygiene 2 Physical Education 1 Total

Rhetoric 2 3 Foreign Language 4 History, Science, or Mathematics. . 3-5 Introduction to Journalism (Journ. 1) I Reporting (Journ. 5) 3 Military Science (for men) 1 Physical Education 1 16-18 Total 16-18

'Recommendation 3 of the Resolution of the National Council on Professional Education for Journalism (adopted January 8, 1943) reads as follows: "Suggested that, in view of the serious shortage of workers on both dailies and weeklies, the schools might establish special one- or two-year undergraduate programs for selected students to speed the production of newspaper replacements."