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PfKCbe Bath
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02678976
Subject(s) - section (typography) , citation , computer science , library science , information retrieval , operating system
By MARTIN SIEGEL Freshmen entering the Wharton School will be the first class to face the school's significantly altered curriculum requirements. A decision by the Wharton faculty in September 1973 to eliminate a pass-no credit option for most of the school's required courses was the final step in the Wharton School's first major course revision since 1962. The faculty decision requires incoming freshmen to take general education (calculus, economics, business law I and new quantitative science courses i statistics or operation research) as well as business concentration courses for a grade, rather than on a pass-no credit basis. Freshmen will now use the pass-no credit option for any six courses in only the following areas: -Behavorial sciences; -Business Area Distribution (core courses I; -Non-business electives; -Natural sciences and-or humanities, excluding the required freshman English seminar. In the Wharton School, a grade of C currently constitutes the lowest passing made. If a student gets a grade of I) or F, no credit for the course is given. Through a decision made two years ago and already in effect, the number nf credits required for graduation was reduced from 40 to 36. The new program requries Wharton students to take: two units of introductory calculus; ■four units in behavioral sciences I anthropology, geography, political science,psychology, regional science, sociology); -two units in both natural sciences and humanities; -Uiw I -three units in quantitative sciences, including two terms of statistics -Economics I; -a freshman English seminar; -Accounting I; -Finance 1; -four additional "core courses" in four different areas, including finance, insurance, labor relations, management, marketing, or multinational enterprise; -four units in a major area; -four non-business electives taken from at least two departments. Two courses must be taken from departments outside Wharton; -four electives to be taken from any department in the University. To prevent freshmen from overloading their schedule only four courses may be taken each semester nf the first year. Freshmen who earn B 3.3 grade average the first semester may add a fifth course second semester. Associate Professor of Finance Jamsted Ghandi, a member of the curriculum committee which