As in other fields of concentration, six full courses are required for an A.B., but two may be taken in related fields. The choice of related fields is large, since almost any course which offers material of an intellectual or historic-artistic nature is acceptable. There is also a wide variation of choices in the specific field of study within the fine arts. Only Fine Arts 13 is usually required, along with the suggestion that the concentrator choose a couple of courses which cover the major periods in the history of art.

Candidates for honors receive two and a half years of tutorial. Applications from men in the first three academic groups are generally accepted, and those in Group IV are encouraged to petition. The thesis required at the end of the honors program is an investigation of a significant situation in a field of art, or the study of an artist.

The faculty in the department is excellent, although it lacks depth in younger men. There are currently four professors and three associate professors on the staff, although there are no assistant professors, no instructors, and only five teaching fellows.

Geology

Concentrators: 54.

The fifty-four undergraduates majoring in Geology represent a "cross-section" of the College, according to Marland P. Billings, professor of Geology. The truth of Billing's statement of the diversity of the Harvard geologist a shown by the fact that students in this department spend as much time in labs as a chemistry major, yet at the same time are in the great outdoors many afternoons, looking for rocks.

An honors candidate in Geology must take five courses in the department itself and three from the related fields, chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics. No thesis is required for honors. However, a candidate must be in Group IV or above, for his undergraduate years, and must take an oral examination at the end of the senior year. Non-honors concentrators are required to take only four courses in the field itself and two from the related departments.

Although there are several different divisions inside Geology, almost everyone takes certain courses. Geology 1a and 1b, Introductory Physical Geology and Introductory Historical Geology, are taken by all concentrators and many "general education" seekers. Pretty much of a "gut," they nevertheless constitute about the best of any department's basic course. Other virtually indispensable courses taken by most concentrators are Geology III, Billing's course on Structural Geology; Geology 113, a course in surveying that includes a full day in the field every week; and Minerology 102, an elementary course that includes five to seven hours of lab work a week.

Once in the department, however, a student has his choice of five separate special divisions: geophypsics, economic geology, paleontology, (the study of fossils, animals, and plants) geomorphology, and dynamic and structural geology.

No changes have been caused in the department's tutorial setup since the announcement of the new tutorial for all plan, principally because Geology doesn't have tutorial.

Germanic Languages

Number of Concentrators: 12.

Germanic Languages attracts fewer concentrators than most fields in the College, yet a majority of students polled say they think it's a good department. They also say the small concentration--12 men this year, with only one senior--leads to excellent person-to-person instruction.

In most years, 50 percent of the decentrators try for honors, and according to Professor Taylor Strack, the department chairman, only 1 in 25 falls. Half of the successful candidates get magnas, Requirements for nonors are 8 full courses with up to three of them in allied fields. For non-honors, it's six with up to two in allied fields. No courses are specifically required.

One dissenter among the approving majority claims that the department's teaching is over-scholarly, and says it shows little imaginative handling. He also feels the department has too little to say about modern German literature--particularly about Thomas Mans.