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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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read, appreciate, and critically evaluate a wider range of accounting research; (2) reduced from 12 to 8 the hours required for the specialization; (3) added a new 8-hour specialization in general accounting which will allow students to tailor the program to their particular career objectives; and (4) replaced several accounting courses with new offerings. Other curricular changes include an increase in free electives from 8 to 12 hours (in order to balance the reduction in the specialization from 12 to 8 hours) and minor revisions of courses in the background program. T h e proposed changes will increase the flexibility of the program to better serve the career objectives of its students. Revision o f the Doctor of Philosophy in English, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved the following changes in the Doctor of Philosophy in English: (1) establishing a 20-hour course requirement for all doctoral students lacking previous equivalent course work; (2) reducing course requirements in each specialization (composition, creative writing, literature) to accommodate item 1 above; (3) changing the title of the Composition Specialization to the Composition/Rhetoric Specialization; and (4) clarifying language regarding the preliminary examination and dissertation. The major curricular change here — the 20-hour course requirement — will provide all doctoral students lacking equivalent courses at the senior undergraduate or graduate levels with a stronger basis for an integrated plan of study in language and literature. Revision of the Specialization in Theoretical Linguistics, Master of Arts in Linguistics, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved the following changes to the Specialization in Theoretical Linguistics, Master of Arts in Linguistics: (1) redesignation of the title from Specialization in Theoretical Linguistics to Specialization in General Linguistics; (2) establishment of a 20-hour core requirement; and (3) establishment of a 12-hour subspecialty requirement from among the following subspecialties: English linguistics, German linguistics, Romance linguistics, Balto-Slavic linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. The department proposes to restructure the current M.A. Specialization in Theoretical Linguistics into a broadened general linguistics specialization with focused subspecialties in various language areas, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. The proposed specialization will require two additional linguistics courses (bringing the total number of required courses to five), one in semantics and one in sociolinguistics. The proposal also calls for a 12-hour subspecialty, with those courses taken primarily in other departments. These changes will strengthen the M.A. program in linguistics by defining specific requirements for the degree and by bringing together the expertise in linguistics of those faculty members in the Linguistics Department and other departments of the college.

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Recommendations of the University Patent Committee (17) The University Patent Committee has recommended the following actions be taken with regard to inventions made at the University of Illinois. Background information concerning these cases has been sent to the Committee on Patents of the Board of Trustees. 1. Catalyst and Process for Preparing Lower Alkanes — Robert Walter, professor, and Vincent Nocito, former student, Department of Chemistry, Chicago.