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...revision also allows pass-fail to be used for concentration credit. Aside from tutorials, Soc Rel 10, methodology, and graduate courses, honors concentrators may take one and one-half courses under pass-fail. Non-honors may take an additional half course under pass-fail...
...faulted: the CEP added some solid college courses to the NROTC requirement as well as sifting some of the chaff from the curriculum. But a reform like this carries the danger that the Faculty will feel spared of reconsidering the larger questions around ROTC. Just as fourth course pass-fail for the moment pushed any wide debate on Harvard's grading system aside, the NROTC revisions threaten to bury the issue of whether ROTC has any place in the Harvard curriculum...
...Faculty follows the advice of its Committee on Educational Policy (and it almost always does) Independent Study will be run on a more liberal set of rules next fall. Independent Study will join pass-fail as an option open to any sophomore, junior or senior who wants to break away from the conventional lineup of graded lecture courses. Projects will not be automatically approved under the new system and the number of students who can take Independent Studies will be limited by the amount of time Faculty members find to supervise these one-man courses...
...report on Independent Study was never buried, we are now told, merely resting while the Committee on Educational Policy plowed through the specifics of two other HPC proposals--pass-fail and a reduced language requirement. The investigation of Independent Study the CEP opened this week promises some revisions in a program well overdue for structural changes...
Independent Study looms as the only failure in an amazingly effective year for the HPC. The Faculty vote yesterday confirming fourth-course pass-fail was the final process of careful politicking that started last spring. And the Faculty seems certain to approve later this spring an HPC-initiated reduction in the language requirement and a new department of Environmental and Visual Studies--meticulously described in a massive HPC audit. Since early November the main item of business at every Committee on Educational Policy meeting has come from...