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Show Branch College to Modify Curriculum A curriculum committee, headed head-ed by Prof. Conrad Hatch, has completed its survey of course offerings at Branch Agricultural college, and has made a number of changes in the offerings for next year. Most of the changes have been made In the area of general education, edu-cation, affecting the "group requirements" re-quirements" for graduation. The aim of the changes is to give the student a better general education educa-tion for citizenship and vocational vocation-al efficiency. New integrated courses in physical phy-sical science and communication will be added to the curriculum Xar freshmen students, and a course In humanities for sophomores. sopho-mores. The new courses will replace re-place more technical work in the same fields, and will give the student majoring in these fields a broader course of study. They will enhance his general knowledge knowl-edge but will not be so advanced as some of the courses formerly offered to fill groups. These same ""group" courses were also given to students majoring In the various vari-ous fields. The physical science course will be given throughout the year, taking in the fields of physics, phy-sics, chemistry, geology, astronomy astrono-my and what mathematics is necessary to complete the course. In the biological sciences, the study of biology will be broadened broad-ened to take in some phases of liaman anatomy and enough of I 1 the other fields of zoology, botany bot-any and bacteriology to give the I student a thorough understanding understand-ing of plant and animal life. The courses will avoid the specialization speciali-zation or technical phases of the life sciences, reserving that for students with majors in that area. The communications course will carry through the three quarters and will offer besides composition, some work in reading read-ing and speaking skills. It will partially replace the former language-arts requirements. Total number of credits and total number of hours in class will remain about the same as formerly, although the time in some classes will be more and some less than formerly. During the study, members of the curriculum committee visited other colleges and universities, and studied the course offerings of the most progressive institutions institu-tions of the nation. The program for next year is designed to keep B A C in step with the progressive progres-sive trends in higher education. |
