If you want to major in the sciences and at the same time sample some of the liberal arts courses in the College, do not concentrate in Applied Sciences.

An honor candidate in this field must take a minimum of nine courses in the field and 10 if he takes Chemistry 1 and Physics 1 and 10. In addition the class of '55 must take 3 GE courses and perhaps General Education A and a language. This means that some honor candidates will have to take 15 required courses; leaving one course for an elective. An ROTC program is virtually out of the question.

The field, which has been reorganized this year to include what were formally the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics and the Department of Engineering, encourages students to go out for honors. This appears to be sound advice for many concentrators complain that the non-honors program is a hodge-podge of unrelated courses in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics with a few applied science courses thrown in.

There is no tutorial in Applied Sciences, but each student has an advisor. The amount of help a student gets from this system depends chiefly upon the individual advisor. No thesis is required.

Students usually do not begin taking the Applied Sciences courses until their junior year due to the heavy load of elementary science requirements. When the undergraduates do start to take these subjects, they find themselves out numbered by graduate students in a ratio of 2 to 1.

Design and Planning

The applied science courses are taught by men who are best described as adequate. The elementary science subjects, of course, are taught by all types of section men, ranging from good to terrible.

The chief advantage of concentrating in this field is that its firm foundation for work in the design and planning aspect of engineering.

Architectural Sciences

Number of Concentrators: 74.

1951 Commencement Honors: cumma 10, magna 2.

Architectural Sciences is only for the student who knows he is going to be an Architect. Hours are long and work is hard, but the general consensus of those among the concentrators is that it is valuable, interting, and well worth the time spent.

Students may elect the field of Architectural Sciences for their concentration only if they plan to be candidates for honors. This policy, although discontinued for the past several years, will be reinstated next year.

While the department tries to include many courses in outside fields when each student enters, they must select a specialized area and fulfill a host of required courses. Whether he wants to learn architecture, landscape architecture, or city and regional planning, the Arch. Sci. major must take a minimum of seven courses in his field to get his A.B. Architectural Sciences 201ab and 202ab. Humanities 114, and two other courses in the department are required of all concentrators, and two more courses may be chosen in related fields.

For those who plan to go to the Graduate School of Design, both Math Ia and 1b are required, and the department thinks it also is a good idea to take Arch. Sci. 112a and Physics 1a and 1b (or 11a and 11b).