Course Credit Offered on TV

For the first time residents in the Boston-Cambridge area can receive course credit toward a Harvard degree by following a series of television lectures. Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, last night conducted the premiere of the new program over WGBH-TV, Channel 2.

For credit toward the degree Adjunct in Arts, viewers must attend several conferences and take mid-term and final examinations in addition to following the television lessons. Both the conferences and examinations will be at Harvard.

Required reading in several texts will also be assigned. The fee for the course is five dollars, and enrollment may be made in person or by mail at 11 Weld Hall.

Albion last night began the initial course, "European Imperialism," with general comments on the migration and settlement of European peoples in the various climate regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

In the Spring term, C. Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will offer another television course, "A Study of Revolutions."

Operating under the Commission on Extension Course, the television series marks the latest expansion of the Harvard extension program.