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...basic requirements, all concentrators must take at least five full History courses and one related course, although most honors candidates take seven or eight History courses plus related courses. Honors candidates are required to take Departmental Tests at the end of their Junior year which include three questions from the four major chronological and geographical areas (Ancient and Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, The Americas and Asia) and a two hour essay. A special field exam follows at the end of the senior year...
There are six courses required for concentrators. The most basic of these, Music 51, has prerequisites calling for reasonable facility at the piano (including sight reading) and a sense of pitch and rhythm...
That Philosophy is basic to all other studies is an often heard but little understood statement. Not until the undergraduate has had a course or two in Philosophy does he really see how he is studying the "inside" of the ideas that are assumed or merely glossed over in other departments...
...concentration requirements in Philosophy are well designed to enable the student to take advantage of this "basic" nature of Philosophy. A minimum of only four full courses are required for honors and non-honor's men, leaving them plenty of room to study the "exterior" of the ideas under other departments. Combinations of Philosophy with other subjects such as History, Government, English, and Mathematics are also available, and generally quite satisfactory...
...Philosophy tends to be harder than most other fields. But though his grades may not be so good for the work he puts in, the Phil. concentrator who picks his courses carefully and does not bury himself in this field can get the best education, for it is a basic education...