CHUL Proposes New System For House Courses

The Committee on the Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) voted unanimously yesterday that each House establish a Committee on Instruction to oversee the educational functions of the House.

John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, has the authority to accept or reject the proposal. Jamie Gorelick '72. Quincy House representative to CHUL, said yesterday. Gorelick said that Dunlop seemed favorable to the plan.

The report of the seven member Subcommittee on Educational Policy, which offered the proposal to CHUL, recommended that each House's Committee on Instruction include six Faculty members associated with the House who will serve for three yeas on a rotating basis.

A Committee on Instruction would recommend House courses, which could be taken for credit, to the Committee on General Education. "Should any course not be accepted (for other than budgetary reasons)," the report states, "the proposal should be returned to the Committee on Instruction along with stated and specific reasons for the rejection."

The Committee on Instruction would then, in conjunction with the instructor involved, redefine the course in order to meet the objections of the Committee on General Education, after which it would be resubmitted for approval.

Other tasks of the Committee on Instruction would be:

*the coordination of Houses tutorials

*the coordination of an advising system for non-honors students.

*the coordination of House sections

*initial screening of petitions to concentrate in Special Studies approval of independent work petitions in conjunction with the Senior Tutor.

Counseling and coordinating in regard to 91 and 910 courses which Faculty members associated with the House wish to offer to the students in the House, or which students in the House wish to have offered.

The Subcommittee on Educational Policy of CHUL was chaired by Keith Raffel '72, of Mather House. Other subcommittee members include Alan E. Heimert '49, Master of Eliot House, R. Paul Levine, Co-Master of Currier House, Bruce Chaimers, Master of Winthrop House, George Kincheloe '72, of Winthrop House, Jamie Gorelick '72, of Quincy House, and Daniel Rich '73, of Dudley House