Chemistry

time for courses to the amount actually listed in the course catalogue, ending the current situation, which, the Department admits, compels students to put in much more lab time than the catalogue would indicate.

Laboratory work will also be reduced by the merger of Chem 3 and Chem 40, since the merger eliminates a half term of lab work.

The Department has made the changes to lighten course and laboratory loads because it believes that industry is putting more emphasis on a broad education and wants students to participate in extra-curricular activities and ethics. Lowering the amount of time concentrators must spend on Chemistry to the exclusion of other activities is also in line with the General Education program, the Department feels.

Despite the reduction in concentration requirements, Harvard graduates will not suffer in comparison with those from other colleges, the Department says, since the college has always set standards well beyond those needed to win approval from the American chemical Society.

Instruction

Student rating of instructors will be used to improve teaching standards in the Department. The Department will give small prizes to outstanding teaching fellows each year, with a poll of Chem students on their instructors used to aid in the awarding of the prizes.

The Department also announced yesterday that it will give Chemistry 1, Elementary Chemistry, as a full course this summer to help pre-meds and those needing the course as a pre-requisite for Chem 20.