Four Courses Added to G.E. For Next Year

General Education will be expanded next year to include at least two new sensitive and two new upper level sources. There is a strong possibility that other additions will be announced later this spring.

Philip H. Rhinelander '29, secretary of the Committee on General Education, yesterday disclosed the inauguration of Humanities 5, "The Ideas of Man and the World in Western Thought," and Natural Sciences 6, "The Biology of Organisms."

The former, to be taught by Henry D. Allen and Morton G. White, both associate professors of Philosophy, will be concerned with the major attitudes, ideas, and problems arising from man's reflected on science, the arts, morals, and religion."

Crowding Necessitates Hum. 5

Humaities 5 was made necessary due to the serious overcrowding in that field: 240 students in four courses. This is also true in Social Sciences, with over L300 in four courses.

He addition was made possible by a recent faculty vote to modify its original decision which limited elementary courses all three General Education fields to not less than two, not more than four. The February vote raised the celling in Humanities and Social Sciences to 5.

This expansion did not apply to the Natural Sciences because this field is divided into the physical sciences and the biological sciences, and thus is allowed a larger number of courses. This year it had five, with no overcrowding.

The addition of Natural Sciences 6 was deemed advisable because in the present set-up the physical science courses (Natural Sciences 1, 2, 3, and 4) have nearly outweighed the one biological science course (Natural Science 5).

Natural Science 6 will be taught in two lectures, and laboratory demonstrations, conferences, and field work averaging one or two hours per week. No previous course in biology is required. The object of the course is to "consider life at various levels of evolution and integration." At least for the first year it will be limited to 50 students. Announcement of the lecturer will be made later this spring.

May Add Soc. Sci. Course

No definite plans have been made for a new elementary Social Sciences course, but it is possible that one may be announced later this term.

There is a new upper level sourse--Social Science 121. "Origins of Modern Totalitarianism," to be taught by Alfred G. Meyer, assistant to the director of the Russian Research Center.

The other upper level course is Natural Sciences 115, "Cosmography," to be taught by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy. The course is "A survey of the cosmos in light of current scientific knowledge."

There are some other new General Education courses in the planning stage, but whether they can be worked out for next year is still unknown.

Rhinelander also disclosed that in addition to the four elementary Natural Science courses which are moving into the newly completed Allston Burr Lecture Hall Monday, Natural Sciences 114 will also soon transfer there. He expects that some Humanities and Social Science courses will move in as soon as the Natural Science classes get settled.

It is still undecided whether Natural Sciences 5 and 6, both courses in the biological sciences, will be given in Burr or the Biological Laboratories next year.

The Committee on General Education also released yesterday the preliminary 1952-53 list of courses deemed "particularly suitable for General Education." These courses, which include Government 1a and 1b. History 61a and 61 b. Music 1. Chemistry 1. Anthropology 10. Philosophy 1a and 1b. Physics 1a and 1b. English 1 and many others may be counted as one of the three required upper level General Education courses. Copies of the list may be obtained at Holyoke 20