Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 335]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Revision of the Degree Requirements, Doctor of Public Health, School of Public Health, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved the following changes to the degree requirements of the Doctor of Public Health: (1) reduce the number of required courses from 10 (38 hours) to 5 (20 hours) by dropping eight required courses (only H.A. 301, Epidemiology, and H.B. 301, Biometry: Community Health, are retained from the original list of ten required courses) and adding three new required courses; and (2) increase the elective hours from 34 to 54. Total hours required for the degree remain unchanged at 144. The proposed changes are in response to recommendations made by the Council on Education for Public Health, the school's accrediting agency, that the program be upgraded to provide more advanced training by dropping the M.P.H. courses used as requirements for the Dr.P.H. and replacing them with high-level courses. The M.P.H. courses will still be available as elective* for those graduate students who have not completed them. Establishment of Lower- and Upper-Division Curricula, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved a major revision to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing curriculum. In the past, pre-nursing students were required to complete one year of general education and pre-nursing coursework before applying for admission to the College of Nursing as sophomores. The proposed revision of the nursing curriculum will require pre-nursing students to complete two years of general education and pre-nursing courses before entering the professional nursing program. The proposed curricular revisions reflect the college's endeavors to meet both societal demands and professional trends in nursing and to provide an excellent baccalaureate education. The substantive changes are as follows: (1) expand the lower-division prenursing curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from a one-year (45 hours) to a two-year (90 hours) curriculum. This lower-division curriculum includes general education and pre-nursing courses; (2) reduce the upper-division curriculum from three years to two years. This curriculum consists of nursing core courses, long-term component courses, selective focus courses, nursing electives, and non-nursing electives; and (3) reduce the hours required for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from 188 to 180 hours. In addition, the College of Nursing admission requirements have been altered to appropriately reflect the curricular revisions. Revision of Curriculum in Forestry, College of Agriculture, Urbana The Urbanai-Champaign Senate has approved revision of the Curriculum in Forestry, College of Agriculture, effective fall semester, 1987. This revision includes minor changes in courses required and also changes the total credit hour requirements from 126 to 130 hours for graduation. Specifically, the Department of Forestry proposes to change the present physics requirement of 10 semester hours to 3 to 5 hours. The reduced requirement will more than adequately meet the needs of forestry undergraduates and two other physics courses will be added to the list of restricted electives to allow students flexibility and encouragement to expand their knowledge of physics. The revision also specifies a requirement of one additional communications course. The increase in the total number of credit hours required for graduation (from 126 to 130) is