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list. This change will give the students a better background in EE and allow them to choose elective courses outside of their specific field of engineering. Curriculum in Health and Safety Education, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a revision of the curriculum in health and safety education. This revision involves a reduction in the number of hours required for graduation from 130 to 128 hours. The number of options in the curriculum has been reduced from 4 to 3 by combining the school health education option and the school safety education option into a school health and safety education option. A further change is the establishment of a core of professional courses common to all the options. The revised curriculum is designed to allow students to acquire a broadly based academic background to provide comprehensive, high quality health and safety education programs in a variety of settings. Master of Arts in the Social Sciences, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a revision of the Master of Arts in Social Sciences increasing the number of units required for graduation from 8 to 10. The revised program is designed to provide students the option of flexible individualized approaches to advanced-level training in several social science fields and areas related to the social sciences. Three program options will be available requiring 8 units of course work and 2 units of thesis or practicum work. Discontinuance of the Teacher Education Minor in Home Economics, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved the discontinuance of the teacher education minor in home economics, because the minor does not satisfy certification requirements as recently revised by the state. The program was not revised to meet the new requirements, because the home economics field is so diverse. The fulfillment of a minor cannot possibly prepare a student to teach home economics with an adequate background in such a broad field. It is felt secondary students would be ill-served if taught home economics by a teacher with only a minor. Curriculum in Agricultural Occupations for Secondary Teachers, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a modification of the curriculum in agricultural occupations for secondary teachers increasing the number of hours required for graduation from 126 to 130. The increase in hours results from the addition of two education courses to the curriculum. The two courses are required to partially meet the new state certification requirements of 100 hours of pre— student teaching experience. Teacher Education Minor in Adult and Continuing Education, Urbana The Urbana Champaign Senate has approved the establishment of a teacher education minor in adult and continuing education. The new minor will require 18 hours of course work (12 required and 6 elective). Because of the growing need for effective teachers of adults, this minor will provide expanded career options for future teachers. The minor will offer teacher education students a flexible course of study to increase their competence as teachers of adults. Radio-TV Instruction, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved an option in broadcast journalism leading to a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in the College of Communications. Enrollment will be limited to a maximum of forty new admissions each year.