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Show Students at College Participate In "Honors" Course Sixteen freshmen students at College of Southern Utah are nearing the end of their first quarter of an experimental Honor's Hon-or's Course. According to faculty facul-ty chairman Dr. McRay Cloward, the group volunteered for additional addi-tional studies that amounted to one-third to one-half more work than a regular c-urse. Dr. Cloward indicated that his committee had been working on a program designed to stimulate and challenge the more capable student since 1957. The plan finally fi-nally devised by the group places the students into a class emphasizing em-phasizing the general humanities area fall quarter, social sciences In the winter quarter and the natural sciences spring quarter. Two faculty specialists will conduct con-duct the class from each area during the quarter. Work assignments assign-ments consist of considerable research, re-search, extra reading; and individual indi-vidual participation is especially stressed, according to Dr. Cloward. Clow-ard. Student participants are selected select-ed on the basis of high school grades, personal interview and entrance examination. In addition addi-tion each student must submif an application for admission for the course. Faculty leaders are: fall quarter, quar-ter, Prof. Harry Plummer and Dr. Blaine Johnson; winter quarter, quar-ter, Dean Richard Gillies and Dr. McRay Cloward; spring quarter, Dr. Conrad Hatch and Dr. Wesley Wes-ley Larsen. |