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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 17, 1996
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Co-major program goes global
European studies concentration may widen opportunity
KU students who want to make their degrees more marketable in the global job market now can do so without completing a second degree.
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is offering a co-major program designed for students who earn degrees in other fields but would like to enhance their prospects for employment outside the United States or with companies engaged in international business.
Students enrolled in the program must complete 24 credits in European studies, a total that falls short of the requirement for earning a second degree. However, students only can earn a co-major if they complete another degree in a different area of study.
Graduating students in the co-major program would have European studies added to their major title. For example, a student could
"We have an enormous ignorance about Europe, but it is becoming more... important all the time."
Carl Strikwerda professor of history
earn a bachelor of science degree in business and European studies.
Carl Strikwerda, associate professor of history and director of the program, said he hoped to draw students from areas such as business, journalism, art history and humanities, where the degree could enhance the students' appeal in the job market.
Requirements for completing the co-major in European studies
Strikwerda said a co-major was becoming a national trend at other universities because the program
- Two years of college-level work in a European language other than English
- One language course either in the same foreign language beyond the two years or another year in another European language other than English
European Studies 500 and 501
Completion of a cultural/historical concentration or an economic/political concentration
For more information, contact Carl Strikwerda, 2008 Wescoe, 864-3108
was inexpensive but credible
Strikwerda said the program would be of minimum expense to the University because only two new courses would be offered, and a lot of the work, such as a senior thesis, would be done by the students and their advisers.
"Basically, we're trying to use our resources more efficiently," he said.
The only other department offering a co-major at the University is Russian and East European studies.
"We have an enormous ignorance about Europe, but it is becoming more and more important all the time." Strikwerda said.
Strikwerda said he wrote to other universities such as Cornell, Minnesota, Rutgers and New York University and decided the co-major would be a good fit at the University of Kansas.
He said about 15 students inquired about the program immediately after it was announced in the department. Ideally, the department would graduate 15 students a year with about 50 enrolled, he said.
Cory Lagerstrom, Arkansas City graduate student, is working toward a major in business and law and said the idea of a co-major was a good one.
"It allows a student to not concentrate on one area of expertise," he said. "It takes the pressure off them to get involved and pursue other things."
City approves plan for fraternity house
Kansan staff report
The Lawrence City Commission approved a site plan for the construction of a new Sigma Alpha Epsilon house last night with one condition — that a neighbor's concerns about the placement of the fraternity's trash dumpster be resolved.
The commission said that the
fraternity's unanticipated could not be placed any closer to a neighbor's house than it was to the fraternity's house.
The condition was added to the site plan after a Lawrence resident voiced concerns
Sigma Alpha Epsilon plans to raze the house and begin construction on a new house at the same location, 1301 West Campus Road, sometime this summer, said Sigma Alpha Epsilon member Patrick Dunn.
about odor and appearance of the trash dumpster, which was to be placed 25 feet from his house.
Dunn, Sea Island, Ga., senior, said the fraternity hoped the house would help Sigma Alpha Epsilon attract new members.
"Our new house will help us out with rush and help us compete with fraternities who have built new houses in recent years," Dunn said. "With the
shape that it is in now, it came to the point where we had to get a new house or move to a new house. We've been here for 90 years and hopefully, with a new house, we'll be here for a lot longer."
The fraternity will finance the new house in part with money raised from alumni across the country, Dunn said.
The new building will house the same number of members about 88—but will include sleeping dorms that conform with fire codes, Dunn said.
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