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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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and systems engineering. It offers a rearrangement of these courses so that all can become available without causing students to take unrelated courses as is now the case. The program consists of (1) core courses drawn from the departments of mathematics, quantitative methods, and systems engineering; and (2) electives which provide opportunity for study in depth of mathematics, applied computer science, statistics, or operations research. The degree will be awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No additional state resources will be required, since the curriculum will be composed of existing courses. Internal reallocation will be used to meet enrollment needs. The chancellor at Chicago Circle and the vice president for academic affairs have recommended approval. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval, subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. O n m o t i o n of M r . L i v i n g s t o n , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d .

President's Report on Actions of the Senates Revision, Curriculum in Occupational Therapy, Medical Center

(12) T h e Medical Center Senate has approved a recommendation from the School of Associated Medical Sciences that the Curriculum in Occupational Therapy be revised to provide that students be admitted to the junior level. Although students have in the past been admitted to the curriculum at the freshman, sophomore, and junior levels, exposure to the clinical setting was limited, for the most part, to their final sixteen-month senior year at the Medical Center campus. The revised program will provide an increased and earlier exposure to clinical experience, as well as instituting a competency-based instructional program, and will allow students to complete the two-year curriculum at Medical Center units at either Chicago or Urbana-Champaign. Prerequisites for admission include 60 hours of humanities, selected manual skills, and biological and behavioral sciences. Graduates are eligible to complete the certification examination for admission to the Registry of the American Occupational Therapy Association.

This report was received for record.

Revision, Admission Requirements, College of Veterinary Medicine, Urbana

(13) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended the following revision effective for fall 1980 in the admission requirements for the College of Veterinary Medicine: the inclusion, as preprofessional course requirements, of three semester hours each of genetics, biochemistry, and animal science. The change, which will create course openings in the first two years and free the fourth year of required lecture courses, will open the way for additional elective course offerings in the fourth year and provide a longer extemship 1 period than is now available. Most students entering the veterinary medicine curriculum have already taken genetics and biochemistry in their preprofessional programs. Because some colleges and universities do not offer animal science courses, successful applicants will be allowed to meet the new requirement during the summer session prior to enrollment in the veterinary curriculum.

1 The extemship is a program whereby advanced students spend part time working with veterinarians off campus.