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University Daily Kansan
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Thursday, Feb. 6, 1986
Course changes set for fall
By Tom Farmer Staff writer
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences officials are carefully studying significant curriculum changes that will go into effect in fall 1987.
The changes in requirements for bachelor of arts and bachelor of general studies degrees were approved by the members of the college assembly in May and now are being fine-tuned before going into effect for all students entering the college in fall 1987.
"It's like a blueprint in that the foundation has been laid," Robert Lineberry, dean of the College, said. "But now we must decide where the walls and windows must be placed."
James Carothers, acting associate dean of the college, said the new requirements were the most significant changes in the college in the 15 years he has been here. He said they were needed to ensure an encompassing, general education.
"The college degree, particularly the B.A., does not signify what it once did with particular skills and general habits in mind." he said.
The new curriculum will include changes in English, math and foreign language requirements and limiting of courses that will meet distribution requirements.
Specific changes in the requirements include a competency exam in Composition, ENGL 101, and Algebra, MATH 101, or Algebra and Trigonometry, MATH 102 or their equivalent.
Students entering the college who have taken ENGL 101 or MATH 101 or 102 at another university also would be required to take the competency examinations.
Students will have to start required English courses their first semester at the University, and will be required to start mathematics requirements by their second semester. In both areas, students will have to take courses consecutively until they have completed the core requirements.
This requirement will instill the necessary skills that students need throughout college, Carothers said. It is also important to avoid the problem of seniors lacking required courses at graduation time.
James Hartman, director of freshmen and sophomore English, agreed with Carothers.
"The skills it's intended to foster are used to build on in college," Hartman said. "There are presently seniors enrolled in ENGL 101."
Proficiency in a foreign language, either by exam or completion of the fourth-level course in a language also
will be required.
In the present curriculum, students can take one language for four semesters or two languages each for two semesters.
Carothers said the narrowing of choices in taking a foreign language was intended to make students more proficient in a single language, rather than having them barely able to communicate in two languages.
A non-Western culture course will be a new graduation requirement that acquaints students with the culture, society and values of a non-Western people, Carothers said.
Distribution requirements also will be stiffened by cutting the number of available courses that students can take.
For distribution requirements, students will be required to complete three courses in natural sciences and mathematics, social sciences and humanities, as they do now.
However, instead of choosing from among virtually any courses in these departments, they will choose from a list of principal courses designated by the departments. The principal courses, said Carothers, will focus on a general introduction to a certain area of study.
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