Business School Tightens 2nd Year Program: Fewer General Courses

Second year Business School men will have less choice in courses they may take, John B. Fox, Assistant Dean of the School, announced last night. The effect of the new regulation, which will govern next year's curriculum, will be to restrict the number of general courses open to second year students.

A Faculty committee has been studying the School's two year program, which was reshaped in 1946, and has reported satisfaction with the first year plan. The change in the second year requirements, Dean Fox says, is in line with the School's philosophy of reexamining and improving on existing policy, and will lead to a "better balanced" curriculum. First year students were notified of the change last week, and must model their individual programs accordingly.

New Program

Dean Fox explained to the CRIMSON last night that second year students have tended to take too few coordinating and institutional courses and too many general ones. The new rule will permit second year men to enroll in one and a half Perspective courses, as the general courses are called, two and a half institutional courses, and one full coordinating course.

Formerly, there has been only one required course for students in their last year; they have been free to chose the other four, provided that they concentrate in one area.

Business School plans for the imminent construction of a new class room building may be put aside, School authorities report.