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CURRICULUM AND TEACHING Metropolitan State College, which opened in the fall of 1965, is a new four-year college located in Denver. The college has recently established a Humanities Forum which is sponsoring a series of meetings dealing with topics of general humanities and cultural interest. The University of Utah has changed its English program from two quarters taken in the freshman year to three quarters taken in the freshman, sophomore and junior years. The major effect of the change is that of requiring an advanced course in composition in the junior year. This course will be designed to give students preprofessional training in the general area of their majors. Three different courses will be set up, one for the sciences and engineering, one for business and social sciences, and one for humanities and fine arts. Jim Fife will be in charge of developing the new courses. The program wfll go into effect in the fall of 1967-1968. The English Department at the University of Utah has adopted the Graduate Record Examination as the final required comprehensive for all English majors and teaching majors in English. The department previously used its own examination but intends to try the Graduate Record for at least two years to see if this is a more satisfactory examination. The organization of Prescott College at Prescott, Arizona, is quite flexible and does not revolve around departments as such but rather around four research and teaching centers. A. Wilbur Stevens is chairman of the Center for Language and Literary Studies, which includes aesthetics, art, drama, folklore, foreign languages, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and theology. The purpose of this program is to extend the concept of what language is and what it does. A major in Spanish language and literature and minors hi French and German have recently been established at Boise College. The Faculty Council of the University of Utah has adopted changes in the basic language requirements for advanced degrees. Ph.D. candidates may now choose between an advanced proficiency hi one approved language or standard proficiency in two approved languages. CAMPUS NEWS Carl Levine (English, Colorado State U) has received a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a study entitled "The Released Mental Patient and the Community : A Study in Cross-Cultural Communication." Levine has worked with mental patients for the past six years and has been appointed consultant to Colorado State Hospital. Joseph G. Fucilla (Professor Emeritus , Northwestern; now visiting professor , U of Wisconsin) and Olga Ragusa (Italian, Columbia) will be visiting professors of Italian in the 1967 summer session of the University of Colorado. Luis J. Valverde Z. wrote and directed a two-act play, "The Tragic Island," presented by the Spanish Club of Boise College. The play concerns how communism came to Cuba. John Barnes (U of Iowa) has accepted a position in comparative literature at the University of Utah beginning hi the fall of 1967. Richard E. Stafford (Spanish, Carroll College) has been appointed to the board of directors for the Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages. J. H. Adamson (English, U of Utah) has returned from a year's leave during which he was finishing books on Sir Walter Raleigh and on Milton. He gave the Reynolds Lecture on 31 January entitled, "The Golden Savage Land." Bruce A. Beatie (German) is chairman of the Graduate School Committee for Medieval Studies which was established in the spring of 1966 at the University of Colorado. The committee is intended to be a focal point for medievalists in various disciplines and to foster interdisciplinary study in the broad area of the Middle Ages. Nicholson B. Adams, long a professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina and a former president of the AATSP, is at present a visiting professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona. W. Glenn Terrell, Jr. has been appointed president of Washington State University, to succeed C. Clement French, who retired last November after 14 years as president. Since November Wallis Beasley, academic vice president, has served as acting president. The new WSU president has been serving as dean of faculties at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Before...