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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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include an increase in the amount of time spent on general education and an increase in the number of hours required for graduation from 126 to 132 hours, excluding the general University requirements of military training and physical education. T h e new requirements will become effective for students enrolling after June 1, 1964. Additions Hours Electives in Economics 3 Electives in Humanities and Social Science 8 Mathematics (beyond College Algebra) 7 Logic 3 Economic Analysis (advanced) 3 Business Statistics • 3 Total Additions 27 Deletions Hours Any one of: Economics 136, American Economic History; Economics 138, European Economic History; Geography 105, Introductory Economic Geography; History 101, Ideas and Institutions in the Western World 3 Mathematics 111 or 112, College Algebra 3 Science or Advanced Mathematics Electives 4 Field of Concentration and Free Electives -J_l_ Total Deletions 21 The Senate Coordinating Council has reported that this revision has been cleared with representatives of the Chicago Undergraduate Division Senate. College of Education T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended revisions in the industrial education curricula and in the curriculum preparatory to teaching mentally handicapped children, effective September 1, 1962. Industrial Education Curricula There are three optional curricula available to students interested in majoring in industrial education. OPTION I — designed primarily to prepare instructors of industrial arts. 1. Delete Mathematics 117, Combined Freshman Mathematics (Algebra and Trigonometry); substitute Mathematics 112, College Algebra, and Mathematics 114, Trigonometry, wherever they do not already appear as an alternate choice. This involves no change in the semester-hour requirement in mathematics, 2. Substitute Education 240, Principles of American Secondary Education, two hours, for the more specialized course, Industrial Education 381, Principles of Vocational Education, three hours, and increase the free electives by one hour. Total hours required for graduation remain the same. 3. Delete Agricultural Engineering 142, Gas Engines and Tractors, from the suggested electives. OPTION II — designed to prepare vocational-industrial instructors. 1. Same as No. 1 in Option I. 2. Delete Journalism 204, Typography, two hours, as a requirement; add Industrial Education 384, General Shop Program, four hours, as a requirement, and decrease the number of electives required by two hours. Total hours for graduation remain the same. 3. Delete Industrial Education 186, Automotive Maintenance, three hours, and add Industrial Education 383, Development, Organization, and Principles of Industrial Education, three hours. OPTION III —designed to prepare personnel for employment in training departments maintained by industrial plants. 1. Same as No. 1 in Options I and I I . 2. Substitute Sociology 218, Technology and Social Change, three hours, for Sociology 318, Human Relations in Industry, three hours.