Council Group Will Propose Foreign Study for Juniors

A Student Council committee will meet with faculty members early next week to formulate a plan for Junior year study abroad.

The Committee, headed by John W. Stokes '54, will attempt to sound out faculty opinion on allowing College Juniors to receive credit for study in foreign universities.

Last spring Stokes organized this committee and polled more than 30 faculty members in the History and Government Departments. The sample showed that 75 percent were generally favorable to the plan.

No Set Plan

Next week Stokes will pass a prospectus among more professors. He plans eventually to have the project brought up before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Right now we're looking for the most satisfactory program for both the professor and student. We've got no set plan, we just want to find something feasible," Stokes said last night.

Tentatively, subject to the decision of the various departments, the program calls for:

1. Three credits for the junior year abroad. Prospective students would to required to take nine credits during their first two years at Harvard, including two years two in the language of the foreign country they plan to visit.

2. Two of the exchange credits will be in the field of concentration, with the third awarded for study in the language of the country visited. In the case of English universities, the student would be required to take the third credit in a related field.

3. Individual departments would be allowed to pick the foreign universities which will be accredited.

To make grades given in foreign universities equal to Harvard grades, the Committee offers six suggestions:

1. Written examinations at Harvard based only on the material taken abroad in the field on concentration.

2. Oral examinations given when the student returns.

3. A paper or papers submitted to the Deartment by the student during his study abroad.

4. The usual general examinations as opposed to specific written exam in number 1.

5. An exam given abroad either by the foreign university or someone who is familiar with both Harvard and the foreign college.

6. Any combination of the first five points.

The Council will suggest that only honors candidates be considered and that fields which ordinarily give general exams in the junior year postpone these tests until the senior year.

Prospective students would have to apply at the beginning of the sophomore year, and would take a special tutorial to prepare for the year abroad