Education Major

ANEW INTER-DEPARTMENTAL major, "Prep. aration for Secondary School Teaching," will be inaugurated by the Department of Education next fall, following its recent approval by the Committee on Educational Policy. Distinctly not a major in Education alone, the new course of study will be quite flexible, combining an average of 15 hours of Education courses in the junior and senior years with organized study in at least two other departments.

Need of such a combined major has been felt for some time, as a result of the difficulty encountered by Education majors at Dartmouth in satisfying the restrictions of the licensing agencies established by the various states. Recently it has become imperative for a student preparing for secondary school teaching to have a college background in which his specialized field and educational theory are interrelated. Under the new major, the student will study two or three related subjects, will be examined in them with individual comprehensive examinations adapted to the ground covered, and will be given a coordinating course.