Word: pass-fail
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...fourth-course pass-fail is adopted, it will be a modest step in a sound direction, but it should not be allowed to obscure other, potentially more promising, lines of investigation...
Implementing the plan poses several problems. Faculty members might understandably be reluctant to admit pass-fail students to their courses if there were enough regular applicants to fill them. The departments, which exercise authority over concentration requirements, might simply refuse to count pass-fail courses in a person's major. Lastly, it is still unclear just what the letter-grade equivalents will be for "pass" and "fail...
...simplest solution to the first problem, and the only way to enact pass-fail on a truly widespread basis, is to allow students to postpone designating their pass-fail course until after their study cards are drawn up. Applicants for limited-enrollment courses would simply not say whether they intend to take them for a regular or a pass-fail grade...
...Policy on concentration requirements will inevitably be set by the departments, but they should accept pass-fail in a person's major to stimulate the same sort of experimentation within one's department that the plan encourages throughout the course catalogue...
...Making "pass" equivalent to a C-minus would obviously not be a very stringent requirement, but it would slightly restrict the number of students who could comfortably experiment under pass-fail. Because such a restriction is inconsistent with the plan's purpose, D-minus should be the minimum grade for "pass...