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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 28

Summary Hours 5 semesters at Urbana 85 3 semesters at Chicago (half time in class work and half time in clinical experience) I semester at Tuberculosis and Psychiatric Hospitals (full time) 35 9 semesters (Including 1 semester full-time clinical experience) 120 I concur in the recommendation of the Senate. 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 p p r o v e d in p r i n c i p l e ; t h e m a t t e r of t h e d e p a r t m e n t a l affiliations o r s t a t u s of t h e c u r r i c u l u m w a s r e f e r r e d t o a s p e c i a l c o m m i t t e e c o m p o s e d of M r . Jensen, Chairman, M r . Nickell, M r . Davis, and Dr. L u k e n , with power

to act.

CHANGES IN CURRICULUM IN COMMERCIAL TEACHING (17) T h e University Senate recommends approval of certain changes requested by the College of Commerce and Business Administration in its curriculum in Commercial Teaching. This curriculum was first established in 1915, when the College was founded. T w o of the subjects most commonly required from teachers of commercial subjects in high schools are stenography and typewriting, but not until 1935 were courses in these subjects made available and these have never carried credit for graduation. Presumably for this reason in large part, few students have taken the curriculum. Between 1920 and 1942 only 62 students have graduated in it. It seems to be a fact that students go to other colleges and universities (such as Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota) where stenography and typewriting are given credit. T h e most important changes requested by the College and recommended by the Senate are (1) the prescription of Geography la and 2 (Economic Geography) in the first year to meet the State and University requirements in the teaching of Commercial Geography, and (2) the establishment of 6 hours credit each in stenography and typewriting. The Lower Division courses (first two years) are essentially the same as for the other curricula of the College, except that in place of the general requirement of 10 hours of science there appear the two geography courses plus 3 hours in natural science, that a new course (Business Computation) may be substituted for College Algebra, and that 4 hours of English literature (specifically English 12 and 13, American Literature) replace 8 hours of English literature. F o r the Upper Division the following prescriptions will replace present requirements: Primary List: At least 19 hours, including the courses shown as required, must be selected from the following. Required: Business Law ia, l b ; B.O.O. 2, 7. Elective: Economics 3, 15, 51, 65; B.O.O. 3, 8, 18; Accy. 3a, 4a, 4b, 13, 30; Math. 23 (for minor in mathematics). Secondary List: Fifteen hours of electives must be chosen from courses in history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology. Education 25 may be counted as psychology in meeting the requirements of this secondary list. Technical List: At least 28 hours, including the courses shown as required, must be selected from the following: Required: Education 6, 10, 25, and related Educational Practice courses; B.O.O. 12a, 12b, 13a, 13b. Elective: Education, 2 hours. T h e curriculum would prepare students to qualify as teachers in secondary schools of these subjects: Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Commercial Arithmetic, Business Law, Commercial Geography, English, Economics, and (if secondary list and electives are carefully selected) Civics and Sociology. T h e curriculum is so designed that students may continue through to the Master of Science degree, in conformity with the five-year plans for teacher training now being studied in the University. I concur.