Dartmouth Course Guide

In its third year of publication, the 153-page Dartmouth Course Guide has again increased the number of its course critiques to 150 covering 31 departments. In choosing courses for review, top priority was given to the primary courses in a department, next came those required for majors but also interesting and useful to non-majors, and finally any other courses distinguished by being "particularly good or particularly bad." The Guide tried to cover as many professors as possible, believing that "the prof really makes the course and the people selecting their courses should look for men as much as for material."

The reviewers were 127 students, each of whom had done well in the course he scrutinized and had talked to the professor about any forthcoming changes in content or format. The writers also had the benefit of questionnaires returned by class members, but a low number of returns has spurred the staff to look for new ways of retrieving such information in the future.

Supervising the entire production was Robert B. Harrington '70, chairman, with a staff of thirty including John H. Fitzhugh '70, editor in chief; Kim D. Cannon '70, executive editor; Lawrence M. Shay '70, managing editor; Kenneth M. Bruntel '71, publisher; and Eric D. Ranney '71, business manager. The striking illustrations are by Stephen G. McKeown '70, the two-color design by Stephen E. Harvard '70, and layout by John F. Berger '70.

For students, the Course Guide can be a useful tool. But the editors think it can also serve those who are "away from Dartmouth and undergraduate life" by conveying a feeling of "how people like us think, and what we value, and what we think is wrong .. . and right.. . about education at Dartmouth. " An advertisement on this page gives details about ordering copies.