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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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in the options. The increase in the number of prescribed courses will give the students a more solid background to provide for development in their areas of professional interest. Discontinuance of the Curriculum Preparatory to the Teaching of Geography, Urbana T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved the discontinuance of the Curriculum Preparatory to the Teaching of Geography, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The curriculum has been inactive, with no students being admitted to the program for several years. It has been maintained until this year in order for the Department of Geography to have time to decide whether or not there was adequate interest by faculty and students in a revised program for the teaching of geography. No such interest developed. Students interested in teaching geography will be encouraged to complete either the Social Studies Teacher Education Curriculum or the Earth Science Teacher Education Curriculum. Revision of the Performance Requirement, Master of Arts in Communication and Theatre, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved a proposal by the Department of Communication and Theatre to alter its current performance requirement (an A or B in Communication and Theatre 400, Introduction to Graduate Study, for continuation in the program) to the following: Students who receive more than one C in their graduate course work, or four Incompletes that have not been made up within the regulatory one term, will be dropped from the program. The department believes that it is too harsh to use a single course as the sole criterion for screening students out of the program, and consequently proposes an alternate mechanism. Revision of the Undergraduate Business Administration Core Curriculum, Chicago The Chicago Senate has approved the following changes to the Nonadministrative and Administrative Cere curricula and the elective requirement of the undergraduate business administration degree program. Nonadministrative Core: (1) changing the title of the Nonadministrative Core to Genera] Education Requirements; (2) increasing the number of hours required for the core from 76 to 84 as a result of an increase in the English requirement from 8 to 12 hours; and increasing the mathematics/natural science requirement from 21 to 25 hours; (3) adding two new mathematics courses, Mathematics 120 and 121, Business Calculus I and II (5 hours e a c h ) ; and (4) dropping the 4-hour requirement in computer information systems (it becomes a Business Core requirement). Administrative Core: (1) changing the title of the Administrative Core to Business Core; and (2) increasing the number of hours required from 60 to 64»as a result of the addition of Quantitative Methods 100, Introductory Computer Science, to the list of required courses. Electives: Reducing the free electives from 12 to 8 hours. The changes in the titles of the Nonadministrative and Administrative Core curricula to General Education Requirements and Business Core were made in order to eliminate the confusing curricula titles; the new titles add clarity. The proposed curriculum changes in writing, mathematics, and computer science come as a result of a two-year study by business administration faculty which indicated a need for better preparation in these areas.