Engineering Sciences

If you want to major in the sciences and at the same time sample some of the liberal arts courses in the College, do not concentrate in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics.

An honors candidate in E.S.A.P. must take a minimum of 9 1/2 courses in the field and 10 1/2 if he takes Chemistry 1 and Physics 1 and 10. In addition the class of '54 must take 2 General Education courses and perhaps English A and a language. This means that some honors concentrators will have to take 15 1/2 required courses; leaving one-half of a course for an elective.

Non-Honors Hodge-Podge

If you are going to concentrate in this field, you should go out for honors, for the non-honors program is a hodge-podge of unrelated courses in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics with a few applied sciences course thrown in.

In addition to not getting tutorial, the student must also study with John H. Van Vieck whose lectures students have called dull and poorly organized.

The applied sciences courses, which comprise the bulk of the requirements, are given by men who are best described as adequate but no exceptional.

There are, however, two advantages to concentrating in this field: It has no thesis, and it will provide you with a firm foundation for work in engineering.