Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 350]

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13. Residents of Laura B. Evans Hall, $67.50 to cover the expenses incidental to acquiring Federal Art Project paintings. 14. Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, an additional $65 for Gynecological Cancer Research. 15. Mead Johnson and Company, Evansville, Indiana, $2,000 for the continuation and completion of research work by Dr. Isaac Schour of the College of Dentistry, which that Company has been supporting. T h i s r e p o r t w a s received for record. REGISTRATION IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE (22) A recommendation from the University Senate that the following restriction of registration in Educational Practice (practice teaching courses in high school subjects) be authorized. Effective September I, 1940, admission to Educational Practice will be limited to students having a grade-point average in all subjects of 3.5, except that where additional facilities are available, students having a lower grade-point average may be admitted in the order of scholastic standing up to the limit of these facilities. It is understood, however, that this selective measure represents a temporary emergency procedure to be supplanted by a more satisfactory procedure as soon as the committee now at work on this problem can prepare a satisfactory recommendation. In the meantime, announcement of the emergency procedure will serve to give warning to students of the change which should be made in the fall of 1940. O n m o t i o n of M r . J e n s e n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a d o p t e d . GENERAL DIVISION A N D CURRICULUM IN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES (23) Subject to the conditions and restrictions enumerated herein, the University Senate recommends the organization of a General Division and the establishment of a general curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as follows; provided that: (1) T h e curriculum is to be considered tentative, subject to continuous study and possible revision. (2) T h e Senate has approved the appointment of a committee to study the place of hygiene in this proposed educational experiment in lieu of the provision recommended by the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences which appears below.

CURRICULUM OF THE GENERAL DIVISION

A. General Courses T h e core of the new curriculum is to be a group of general courses, one in each of the following areas: 1. Verbal Expression 5. Social Science 2. Biological Science 6. Literature and the Fine Arts 3. Physical Science 7. Philosophy and Psychology 4. History of Civilization These are intended to be non-departmental courses, the content being determined by the nature of the field in its relation to the educational needs of the student, rather than by the boundaries of existing departments. Each is intended to introduce the student to an important area of knowledge at the college level, and to make him familiar with the methods and point of view characteristic of the field in question and the contributions it can make to the improvement of individual and social living. As a group the courses are designed to supplement and support one another, thus assisting the student to arrive at an integrated view of human experience and endeavor. As an additional means of securing continuity of interest and integration of subject-matter, it is proposed that these general courses shall be year courses. Each of them is thought of as the equivalent of a departmental course meeting four times a week for two semesters.