Friday, September 7, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Groups to evaluate possible LA&S degree changes
By KATE POUND Staff Reporter
Disbanded seminar* groups have recovered to study recommendations for changing the degree requirements of the College. Dean Bob Coch, dean of the College, said yesterday.
The recommendations, stemming from the fears of College faculty members that some students were inadequately prepared for college coursework fragmented education, would reintroduce freshman-sophomore requirements. One proposal also would create a fourth freshman-graduate program.
The degree requirements were relaxed about 10 years ago.
The proposals will not change degree requirements for students currently enrolled in the College, Cobb said.
Cobb said it was too soon to speculate about how the College Assembly would deal with the recommendations. They may be
changed in the steps before reaching the Assembly, or rejected or amended, he said.
"We don't know how many of them will ever see the light of day," he said. "We can't guarantee what will happen to them."
THE RECOMMENDATION for freshman-sophomore requirements would require that students complete basic courses in mathematics, English and foreign language before becoming eligible for college. Students will be taught in their junior year, according to Cobb.
"It would mean that students would be encouraged to take courses in sequence," he said.
According to Robert Spires, professor of Spanish, and a member of the Degree Requirements Task Force that wrote the final proposal for the new language from the proposals.
"It might make it easier for students. These are skills that might help a student throughout his entire career," he said.
The recommendation for a fourth
distribution area calls for the development of upperlevel courses that would overlap existing distribution areas. An information system is needed to subject matter covers parts of two or three of the existing distribution areas, which are also called lower-level courses and mathematics and the physical sciences.
THE INTERDISCIPLINARY courses would help bring together the various educational experiences of students, Cobb said, and help prepare our libraries and differences of the different areas.
Spires said, "We're hoping these will be final courses that will allow students to integrate the distribution areas."
The existing recommendations have come through a long evolutionary process, said Richard Cole, professor of philosophy and director of the Degree Requirements Task Force.
The process began in 1977, Cole said, when the deans of the College recommended that the College Assembly study the existing degree requirements.
"There appeared to be considerable sentiment that the degree requirements needed to be looked at and reforms made." Cole said.
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas, like many other universities, made several major
changes in its degree requirements in the late 1960s and 1970s, Cole said.
The changes included the creation of the national Studies program, the relaxing of man's relations to events, the College's decision to review those changes was part of a nationwide movement toward better education.
"Primarily, it looks like a return to standards."
Although the recommendations gave the University a chance to raise its academic standards, it also offered an opportunity to make innovations, such as the creation of the interdivisional
After the College Assembly approved the
recommendation to examine the degree requirements in 1977, it established four faculty seminar groups to outline the problems and areas that needed attention.
THE SEMINAR groups' reports were turned over last fall to six preliminary task forces to make proposals for changes in the degree requirements. At that time, the seminar group disbanded. The proposals from January 1979, Cole said.
Cobb said review of seminar reports would take the rest of this semester. He said he hoped the recommendations could be early in 2016, and Assembly early in the spring semester.
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