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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS President's Report on Actions of the Senates Revision of the Master of Arts in Environmental and Urban Geography, Chicago

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(15) T h e University Center Senate has approved the following revisions of the Master of Arts in Environmental and Urban Geography: (1) addition of a nonthesis degree option; and (2) revision of course requirements to clearly distinguish between the thesis and non-thesis options. T h e purpose of the proposed changes is to offer a graduate degree program to people who are primarily interested in improving their professional skills for career advancement, or who are involved in applied geographical research. T h e non-thesis option requires a more comprehensive and structured program of course work, including analytical skills such as cartography and quantitative methods. T h e proposed changes may reduce the length of time required to complete the M.A. degree. Revision of the Major in Statistics and Operations Research, Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Operations Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Chicago T h e University Center Senate has approved the following revisions of the Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Operations Research: ( I ) addition of an 8hour natural science requirement which excludes mathematics courses; (2) decrease in the number of elective hours from 27-36 to 19-28; and (3) renumbering of two mathematics courses. Prior to this revision, students in the curriculum could automatically fulfill the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' natural science requirement of 20 hours by completing the mathematics courses for the statistics and operations research degree. T h e purpose of this proposal is to broaden the student's exposure to other natural sciences. Revision o f Master's Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations, Urbana T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended revisions of the Master's Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The proposed changes involve a strengthening of the current master's degree in two areas: (1) in the current terminal master's program, the credit requirement for the thesis option has been increased from 8 to 10 units (the tutorial option remains unchanged at 10 units) ; and (2) a closely supervised minimal 10-unit, course-work option is provided for direct entry into the Ph.D. program for students without a master's degree. By increasing the thesis option by two units of course work, a single master's degree program requiring 10 units to complete (offering two options — thesis or tutorial) can be specified, primarily for students not interested in pursuing the Ph.D. T h e introduction of a new direct-entry option will permit the students to move immediately into the graduate courses best suited for the doctoral degree, while assuring them that they will be able to receive the master's degree after 10 units of course work should they (or the I L I R ) decide that they should not continue in the doctoral program. Revision o f Master's Degree in Statistics, Urbana T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended a revision of the Master's Degree in Statistics, Department of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.