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...large amount of coursework is being done in courses of enormous size," says Mark A. Peterson, head tutor of the Government Department. "The junior seminar is the one time when we can guarantee every student a small discussion seminar with a faculty member including senior faculty members...
Dunne, an economics major, says she was expected to do her economics coursework on tape last year, a task she says was nearly impossible. She adds that the University was also not helpful in getting her economics graphs transferred into a form she can read. Graphs can be remade so that each section is raised and textured to distinguish it from the others, Dunne says...
Under the new plan, honors juniors would take a broader, indivisible full-year course rather than two more focused half courses. This system, Maier said, would allow students to integrate their coursework with their major field of study more easily...
...petition calls for three new special fields "allowing coursework in African, Native American and Oceanic art to count for concentration credit." The department is also urged to seek out qualified professors "inside the University and without" to teach classes in these subjects...
Meanwhile, faculty at the University ofPennsylvania Medical School decided three yearsago to accept students who had not completed thetraditional "pre-med" course requirements--a mixof biology, chemistry, physics and math. Instead,says Vice Dean for Education Frederic D. Burg, theschool has a "competency requirement," whichallows for limited coursework in the usual pre-medareas...