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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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campus. At present a graduate program is offered in linguistics leading to the degree of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. This program is administered by an interdepartmental committee whose chairman serves as the program director. T h e Department will offer two main curricula with certain possible additions: ( a ) graduate programs in descriptive linguistics and historical linguistics, and graduate interdisciplinary programs in psycholinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and experimental phonetics; and (b) instruction in non-Western languages to be instituted later, eventually providing at least two years of elementary Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, and selected southeast Asian languages such as Burmese or Indonesian. T h e Department will also offer graduate programs of instruction and research leading to degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, with the possible addition of a one-year certificate for foreign teachers of English who can afford only one year of graduate training in this country. T h e College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the new Department would recognize the prior claim of the existing language departments to continue to offer courses of a linguistic nature which draw their material from the languages they teach and which are a part of the training at all levels of teachers of such languages. Submitted herewith is a supporting statement concerning the proposal for the new Department, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. T h e University received funds in its 1963-65 legislative appropriation for the establishment of a Department of Linguistics and for the kind of expansion of the program outlined above. I recommend approval, subject to further action by the Board of Higher Education.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, this recommendation was approved.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING (4) On recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Graduate College, the Urbana-Champaign Senate has recommended establishment of a graduate program leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Engineering to meet the great demand for agricultural engineers with the Doctor of Philosophy degree from colleges and universities, state and federal government agencies, industries which serve agriculture, and many of the food industries. The program will fulfill all the standard requirements of the Graduate College for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It provides for a major in agricultural engineering with a minor or minors in other graduate departments of engineering, mathematics, physics, including soil physics, or other disciplines in the physical sciences. The program, including the specific courses, is submitted herewith, and a copy is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. The Board of Trustees in 1948 approved a recommendation from the Senates for a graduate program leading to the degree of Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering. The Senate Coordinating Council has indicated that no other Senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval, subject to further action by the Board of Higher Education. O n m o t i o n of M r . H u g h e s , 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 . DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND REVISION OF CURRICULUM IN CITY PLANNING (5) T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved recommendations from the College of Fine and Applied Arts that: (1) the name of the Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture be changed to Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, (2) the title of the curriculum in city planning be changed to curriculum in urban planning, (3) the curriculum be revised to increase the total number of semester hours required for graduation from 122 to 132, exclusive of the general University requirements in military