Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 1082]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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student for a wide variety of positions in the horticultural food industry. T h e number of requirements has been kept at a minimum to give flexibility and allow the student to progress in the field of his particular interest under the guidance of his adviser. A minimum of 136 semester hours of credit is required for graduation. T w o options are offered: Option I, requiring eight semester hours of chemistry, emphasizes crop production but includes enough on processing to give the student an insight into the interdependence of these phases and enhance his chances for advancement into positions requiring a knowledge of both. Graduates should be qualified for work in crop production or some phases of raw products research in the processing industry. Students interested in the production or handling of fresh fruits or vegetables will find this a suitable core curriculum. Option 2 requires eighteen to twenty semester hours of chemistry and Food Technology 204 and 301 and trains the student for a position in quality control in the manufacture of horticultural food products. The increased chemistry requirement necessitates a modification in the sequence of required courses. Sample programs of this curriculum are hereby filed with the Secretary of the Board. All of the courses listed are presently available in the College of Agriculture, but it is not possible to take them in the combination proposed because they do not fit within the framework of any existing curriculum. Hence, this program was developed by the Departments of Horticulture and Food Technology to meet the needs of students who wish to go into the horticultural food industry. T h e program will enable a student interested in this aspect of horticulture work to elect a planned curriculum at the beginning of his studies. I concur in this recommendation. O n m o t i o n of M r s . H o l t , 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 . CHANGES IN CONTINUATION PROGRAM IN NURSING (10) The faculty of the School of Nursing and the University Senate recommend the following changes in the Continuation P r o g r a m in Nursing first adopted in June, 1952, and modified in June, 1953. 1. That the Continuation Program in Nursing be extended to qualified graduates of a school of nursing accredited by the licensing body of the state or country in which it is located indicating an over-all average of 3.5 in the academic courses taken in that school of nursing. (The present requirement provides for the admission of graduates of schools of nursing accredited by the licensing body of the state or territory in which it is located. This proposal extends the program to graduates of accredited nursing schools in foreign countries.) 2. That the candidates in the Continuation Program in Nursing be required to meet the entrance requirements for the pre-nursing curriculum and complete the same program in pre-nursing required of students in the four-year program, except for zoology. This is as follows: Semester Hours Rhetoric IOI-I02 6 Humanities (literature, philosophy, music, or art appreciation) 6 Social Sciences (history, political science, economics) 6 Chemistry 102-132 6 Electives 6 Total 30 This is a substitute for the present two-year program in liberal arts subjects now required in the Continuation Program. i- That the present requirement of an examination in rhetoric as a part of the admission requirement be discontinued. 4- That the candidates in the Continuation Program in Nursing be required to complete advanced courses in liberal arts (not open to freshmen and sophomores) chosen from the fields of humanities and social sciences, eight semester hours. 5- The requirement of evidence of personal characteristics essential for nursing and achievement in nursing practice satisfactory to the Committee on Ad-