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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1966-1967-363

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xxxviii Annual Report of the Delegacy Physics will continue to be available the new structure will allow the development of variety of new courses combining various dis- ciplines such as Biology Geography and Geology Geology and Physics etc In the faculty of Arts of the University of London the specialist one- subject Honours degree has long enjoyed high reputation Many students have benefited from inter-collegiate teaching and have been offered much wider range and choice of specialist studies than would have been possible in unitary university This can be excellent for some undergraduates but not all students wish for or can benefit from high-powered specialist teaching and research The range of subjects in the Arts faculty is much wider and more disparate than that in Science and it has not been easy to reach common view in the faculty of Arts on the relative merits of broad and narrow specialist and unspecialised studies Progress has therefore not been so rapid and satisfactory as in the Science faculty but it is probable that before long more broadly based Honours degree in Combined Studies will be established of kind which will bear comparison with the single- subject honours degrees Great importance will be attached to the integration of the component subjects and the structure of the syllabus will make it possible to combine within time-table limits any two of the subjects taking part in the scheme Integration in the first year will be achieved through common focus of interest while in the second and third years integration will be attempted through 'background' courses of interest to the two main subjects and optional 'bridge' courses within the main subjects through which one main subject can approach another Much consideration has been given also to the problem of adapting teaching in the faculty of Medicine to the changed conditions of our time and to the needs of the Health Service The results of the recent great advances in medical science have to be incorporated in surgery medicine and above all in psychiatry and social medicine There has also been strong desire to bring the preclinical courses into closer relationship with the clinical and to associate the clinical specialists and consultants more closely with the teaching in academic departments In the faculty of Laws on the other hand while intercollegiate teaching continues to play its part there has been growing tendency for the departments of Law in the several colleges to concentrate their efforts upon their own students and to provide complete undergraduate training from their own resources new Honours has recently
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