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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 21

Revision of the Teacher Education Minor in Accountancy The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a revision of the teacher education minor in accountancy. T h e revision increases the number of required hours for graduation from 21-22 to 24. A computer science course and a business education course have been added as requirements and the number of hours of electives in the minor have been reduced by 2 to 3 hours. The proposed revision will provide students with a strong computer and methodology background and will bring the program into compliance with the Illinois State Board of Education requirements for a second teaching field. Conversion of the B.A. Curriculum in Speech and Hearing Science to a Field of Concentration in the Sciences and Letters Curriculum The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved the conversion of the B.A. Curriculum in Speech and Hearing Science to a Field of Concentration in the Sciences and Letters Curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The B.A. Curriculum in Speech and Hearing Science originally was designated to provide a technical background for students who had decided to pursue a scientific career in speech and hearing science. However, students usually did not make such a decision as an undergraduate; rather, in graduate school. Because of the decision being delayed, the curriculum was revised to a broad and general one designed to provide a liberal arts education consistent with the current General Education requirements of the college. Therefore, the faculty of the college see the curriculum as appropriately part of the Sciences and Letters Curriculum, rather than as a free-standing curriculum within the college. There are no changes in requirements of the proposed field of concentration since the B.A. Curriculum in Speech and Hearing Science conforms to the Sciences and Letters Curriculum requirements. Current students in the curriculum will be accommodated by being given the choice of completing their studies in the curriculum or switching to the field of concentration. Revision of Degree Requirements, Master of Arts in Sociology, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved the following changes in the degree requirements for the Master of Arts in Sociology: (1) redefined the sociological research methods sequence, Sociology 400-401-402, from a practicum format under which students worked collectively on a research topic to a more individualized approach; (2) reduced the number of hours of the 400-402 sequence from 12 to 8; (3) added a new course, Sociology 403—Research Writing: Master's Paper, 4 hours; (4) added a new requirement of either Sociology 371-Population or Sociology 373-Human Ecology, in order to compensate for the removal of this material from the master's comprehensive examination; and (5) increased the total hours of course work from 28 to 32. The change in sociological research methods from a group-project approach to a more individualized approach will allow students greater flexibility in pursuing specialized interests at an earlier point in their graduate work. The removal of demography/human ecology from the master's comprehensive examination will enable more intense scrutiny of master's candidates in the remaining substantive fields of social organization and social psychology. Establishment of a Minimum Grade Requirement, Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved a proposal of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering under which credit would not be counted toward the graduate degree for any course in which a grade of less than " C " has been earned.