FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1963
Chicago Prof Proposes
Curriculum Experiment
Responding to an invitation from the College Curriculum
Group at the-University of Chicago, faculty member Donald
Meiklejohn has offered the following proposal for a limited
curricular experiment:
- ' “I urge that a group of between five and t ten faculty
members be designated as tutors for a group of one hundred
students, preferably, living in the
same (or in two) dormitories. They
should prepare concrete plans, to
be available for students to choose
as they enter in the, autumn, 1963.
The .'experimental group would
have plenary power to plan its
curriculum but would invoke as
it wished existing courses, deans,
registrars and degree certifica
tion ”
EACH STUDENT is to be put
in the hands of a tutor, who has
the student write for him peri
odically and handles the composi
tion problem in this way, Meikle
john explained. The student is to
meet . competence standards in
mathematics and the foreign lan
guages, as these are needed for his
advanced . studies in general or
specialized .courses.
The student’s teachers, in addi
tion to the .tutor, include one in
the social science, one in the hu
manities and one in the natural
science. (Tasks of teaching may be
distributed as need be.) But the
point of this is to invite such
specialists as these three and the
tutor to sit down together with
the. student's,)' credentials in hand,
and- toi.consider /What/he knows,
• and/tlyy distance-' 1 between -what
■ and/where he'should,be atithe end
of foiir'yeafsi. he'said.'. . <:•
, In) terms/: of; pres eht arrange- 1
mentv.yll students would in the
fivstdwo'years study/three courses
-at a., time,./plus as much rnore: as
might, be*judged-necessary for the
mathematics- , and/ ' language - re
quirements, and/with' a', contihu
ing processl for’, the
tutor, Meiklejohn /said. Require
ments in history, ahd.philosophy
would-be-held oyer to the last two
years whentheycould : be genuine
ly. .com’prehefisive.'-. TheyVcould be
alternative;'if not, both could be
Taken, .; ; ty/ -
In the last two’ years; i the stu
dent, although still associated with
a tutor would' .“go out into" the
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world” in the college at large in
the sense that he would have a
chance at electives and also would
complete - the' requirements of
some special field, Mieklejohn
pointed out. •
THE REQUIREMENTS should
be the topic of radical and urgent
conversation between the : relevant
departments and the tutors, prob
ably with a system of terminal
essay examinations with appropri
ate modifications in the sciences.
“Thus there would -be a gen
uine challenge to the sciences to
show that there may be "ways other
than the present series of courses
to prepare those who wish to go on
for advanced work.”
There would be a final integrat
ing course, philosophical, or his
torical, or both, with a special
essay to complete that would pre
sumably be suited to the student’s
special interest.”
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