Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 552]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Speech, i.e., the recognition of speech defects, panel discussion and debate, assembly and classroom speaking, radio broadcasting), and Speech Y (Theatre Arts, i.e., an introduction to the problems of play production, with practical experience on Theatre Guild crews). Six hours of natural science are required for state certification. In addition, the student must take Psychology I as a prerequisite to Education 25. The English Department recommends that the College of Liberal A r t s and Sciences reduce the Science requirements for students in Speech and English teachertraining curricula to ten hours. T h e training of a high-school teacher is a more complex problem in the field of English than in any other field. F o r one thing, he has a double subject—literature and composition. F o r another, there are the duties which he is almost invariably called on to perform in small schools— supervision of the library, of dramatics, of the school annual, of formal speeches —in preparation for which he would like to take something in Journalism, in Library Science, and in Remedial Reading. Furthermore, the requirement of fifteen hours in science (however good in itself) is disproportionate to the six hours in social science (required for certification, but not required at all by the College), especially in view of the fact that the whole six hours may be earned in the required subject of American history and government. W e would like to give our teachers as broad an education as possible. The more a curriculum is encumbered with large fixed blocks of subject matter, the more difficult it is to achieve this purpose. W i t h these preliminaries, the English curriculum may be summarized as

follows: HOURS

I. Major subject (as above) 36 II. Speech (10 and X or Y ) 5 III. Natural Science 6 Psychology 1 4 (The courses in Biological Science and Physical Science in the Division of General Studies are especially recommended) IV. Social Science 6 (Probably filled by the new course in American history and government; otherwise Political Science ia and American History 3b1) V. Professional courses in Education: Education 25 3 Education 6b 3 Education 10b 3 Educational Practice 11 5 1 Education 69 3 Education I __2_ Total 19 VI. Teaching Minor 16 V I I . Requirements for graduation in Liberal Arts and Sciences: 1. Freshman Rhetoric (Rhet. 1-2 or Verbal Expression) 6-8 2. Foreign language (if begun in college) 16 3. A third subject in liberal arts (with English and History) 3' 4. Hygiene 2 5. Physical Education o Total 27-29 VIII. Electives 6-8 Total 126-130 A minimum of 128 hours of credit, not counting the first two years of work in military science and physical education, is required for graduation.

See footnote 2 on preceding page. ' If the student takes both Political Science and History the requirement is automatically met.

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