Economics Dept. Shifts Emphasis In General Exams

The Economics Department will experiment this January with a departmental examination based on a more "general economic analysis" than any other postwar examination in the field, Associate Professor John T. Dunlop announced yesterday. In addition, the exam will now be based on problems reviewed by three books to be assigned in advance.

"This move definitely reflects an attempt to improve undergraduate economics instruction over anything it has been since the war," Dunlop said. "The reading assignment will help integrate the student's entire economics course, and he will now know what is expected of him in the exam."

"In the past, concentrators had to rely exclusively on individual course notes when a good examination would have integrated all these notes generally and more analytically," Dunlop stated.