Gen Ed Council Plans Alterations in Nat Sci

The Committee on General Education has announced major alterations in the lower-level Natural Sciences program and four new Gen Ed courses for 1957-58.

I. B. Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science and lecturer in Nat Sci 3, explained last night that large-scale changes in personnel were chiefly responsible for the broad revisions in his department.

Nat Sci 1, The Physical Sciences in a Technical Civilization, will not be offered in 1957-58. Philippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics, is currently giving the course.

With the retirement at the end of this year of Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, LeCorbeiller will take over Nat Sci 2, Principles of Physical Science. The Committee has agreed to rename the course The Foundations of Modern Physical Science, and the mathematics prerequisite has been abandoned.

Nat Sci 3, formerly The Nature and Growth of the Physical Sciences, has been retitled Historical Introduction to the Physical Sciences.

Leonard K. Nash '39, associate professor of Chemistry, will give Nat Sci 4, which has been rechristened Introduction to Science. When the course was given last year by Nash and Thomas S. Kuhn '44, formerly assistant professor of the History of Science, it was called The Process of Scientific Research.

Upper Level Changes

In the upper level courses, Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, will give Nat Sci 122, Organic Chemistry. Fieser explained that the course will have no prerequisites and students will attend the lectures, but not the labs, of Chemistry 20.

University Professor Paul Tillich's half-course this year, Humanities 127, The Interpretation of History, will be expanded into a full course on religion in 1957-58.

In another new, upper-level Hum course, Herbert Dieckmann, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, will give Hum 135, The Age of Enlightenment, in the spring of next year.

In the Social Sciences, John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, will lecture on The Social Theory of Modern Enterprise in Soc Sci 134, a new half-course.