Administration of the College Curriculum (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...to thirty-nine and one-half hours in 13 1.5 units of mathematics may be exchanged for 1.5 units of history. i Mathematics or science may be substituted for languages. W History or economics, 16 Philosophy or education. i May be offered for admission. is Requited for men. 10 4 courses are required in 1 or 2 languages. Note.--The University of Alabama requires 16 hours of foreign language study, 10 of which muet be chosen from Greek, French, and German, 6 of which must be in Latin. Other language requirements may be read in this way. R = Required. Alabama. There is no conspicuous central tendency, and the average deviation, in this particular, of the individual institutions from their average is great. The foot-notes to Table I give further evidence of the incomprehensible action of college faculties when they undertake to lay down arbitrary restrictions concerning the curriculum for all students. The vast amount of miscellaneous experimenting with the college curriculum that has produced the temporary results set forth in this table gives point to the remark of Professor Cattell that the collective unwisdom of a college faculty is not often exceeded by an individual student. Any one who has observed a college faculty make a decision at one meeting and promptly reverse it at the next, without a particle of new evidence on the issue, is not unreasonably skeptical concerning the stability or the worth of the regulations summarized in these tables. Table II presents the subjects required for the A. B. degree and the number of year-hours allotted to each in certain universities under private control. The variation here exhibited is even greater than that for state universities. Here again the curriculum appears to be administered in the...