Colleges offer more free study
by MARSHA BANGERT
Nebraskaa Stall Writer
Attempts are spreading
through the University to make
independent study available to
more students.
Some departments in the
College of Arts and Sciences
are splitting independent study
courses into honors and regular
sections and are offering an
"opportunity number course."
Planning is also underway to
offer a special topics course.
Walter II. Banning, assistant
deaa of facslties, said every
college is moving through the
stage f changing its in
dependent studies course.
This course was formerly for
University students who
desired to do independent
reading or research with the
idea of submitting a thesis to
graduate with distinction. -
According to John W.
Robinson, associate dean of the
College d Arts and Sciences,
this course will bow become
two sections in some
departments. The honors sec
tion (199H) will remain a
course for students seeking to
graduate with distinction.
The regular section (199) will
be offered to students who
desire to do independent
research and reading. The stu
dent will need the approval of
his adviser and the instructor
he chooses to work under.
Students can register for 199
next semester if the coarse has
been approved in the specific
department, Robinson said. He
added that each department
"All departments have been
asked to split the course into
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two sections," the dean said. "I
think that the response has
been f airly good.'
The College of Agriculture
has also been working to
establish two sections of in
dependent study, Lee W. Chat
field, dean of student academic
services, noted.
Chatfield said that he feeis
independent study should be
made available to all students,
not just honor students. But he
questions how many will ac
tually take the course.
Some departments in Arts
and Sciences are also offering
an opportunity number course,
Chatfield said. This course
would allow a student enrolled
in a course to do extra work
and receive one to two hours of
extra credit.
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"If a student is interested in
a particular aspect of a
course, Chatfield explained,
"he could do extra reading and
research on it for credit.
Some departments in Arts
and Sciences are also arrang
ing cr a special topics course.
This course would allow an in
structor to offer on a once-or-twice-only
basis a course of
topical or useful significance,
according to Fred Link, pro
fessor of English..
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1970
THE NEBRASKAN
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