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Show rh v- U'uH ?JJ-J, I - Jf f; J V if ' l 1 I -r " i ! V program, discuss the importance of hT Phase f 'he honors Haven E. Burgeson, associate professor of physics, and Dr. Richard Cummings, director of the honors Innovation key to program certain requirements with no recognizable relationship between be-tween courses. In the Honors Program, in at least one course per quarter permits the study of material conceived around student interest. In the junior year a pilot program is being tested this year to enable the student to choose a problem and center everything he does that quarter around the problem. There is directed reading under a professor of the student's choice. If it is a valid problem, whether in the community, or in creative endea"vors (composing, cjeveloping a concept, etc.) the student does not have to attend a disjointed class schedule, rather pursue the pursue the problem and receive hours of credit. Dr. Cummings would like to see this expanded so it would permit the students to map out their junior year and give it organic unity. New concept Honors has spin-off value for other areas. Under consideration is a whole new concept for freshmen fresh-men year where 12-15 students would study under one professor for one entire year. This planning is derived from the Honors Program. This plan would be adaptable to the indivic would individualize, pet and revitalize tn frustrating, disjointed u courses. Honors is not intenfe handful of students. I elite image has pent program, Dr. Cummini mented and sometlr; succeeds in honors t; could eventually general course curricula Conceptual science Last year a basic te science class for no: students was initiated Honors Program. It wast., the top professors in tfiet-basic tfiet-basic concepts of stiet: taught without mathemi course shifted the t;. emphasis on human:-social human:-social sciences toward and brought balance program, equalizing dimensions. Dr. Cummings said th students enrolled in tin: qualify for the top pe stitutions like Yale, ! Princeton and Harvait honors sutdents went , schools as such and' ( Utah where theyfoundt1- t dealt with more persona c F By LESLIE FRIEDMAN Chronicle Staff The University Honors Program, rated by the president of the National Honors Collegiates Program as one of the top three Honors Programs in the Western United States in 1968, has expanded ex-panded to include innovative curriculum changes for the University as a whole. The Honors Program is designed for a promising minority of students with a projected gpa of 3.2 or an indication of success through other sources. Honors curricula is 20 percent of the undergraduate classes of 40-41 hours of the 183 needed to graduate. Classes are taught by the top professors of the University, who teach what excites them most to a small group of students also excited about the subjects. Personalize learning This program is almost the only place where top faculty people are brought into contact with undergraduate students. The classes are limited to 25 students, promote an exiciting, personalized per-sonalized learning experience and more interchange between students and teacher, according to Richard Cummings, director. Not until graduate school do students usually encounter the faculty elite and there get involved in-volved with students with the same narrow interests. In the Honors Program diversified interests, in-terests, congenial board coverage of material are brought together with top professors in the first years at the University. General Education requirements often force students to fulfill |