Faculty Gets Europe Study Credits Plan

A plan for giving Harvard course credits to undergraduates studying abroad will come before the Faculty at 4 p.m. today.

Provost Buck announced last night that the Faculty will debate proposals by the Romance Languages and German Departments that students concentrating in those fields receive credit for European study during the academic year.

The proposals do not include students is any other fields, however. "The Faculty is not ready to sponsor indiscriminate accreditation," the Provost said. If passed, the plan for language students will only be a "trial balloon."

Francis M. Rogers, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, first presented the plan to the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy. The Committee endorsed Rogers' proposal and placed it on the docket of today's Faculty meeting.

Starck Makes Request

The plan was enlarged to include German students when Taylor Starck, professor of German, asked that his field also be included in today's discussion. However, the Committee has not had time to study Starck's proposal.

Although actual selection of students will probably be left to individual departments, it was learned last night that the present proposal would rule out all students except those in regularly organized foreign study groups.

The only such group now functioning is the Sweetbriar group in Paris, sponsored by the Institute for International Education. Sixty-six juniors from eight Eastern colleges are now studying in France under the Sweetbriar Plan. About one-half of the students concentrate in Romance Languages in their home colleges.

There is no present machinery for granting European study credit.