Five four‐year colleges: Carleton College

MAR 01, 1968

A three‐term year, with three courses per term instead of the usual four or five per semester, has helped to provide a logical layout for a program that is meant as an introduction to graduate studies.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034817

Robert A. Reitz

A STRONG BASIS FOR GRADUATE STUDY underlies the physics curriculum at Carleton College. The staff of the physics department at our small liberal‐arts college in Northfield, Minn, consists of five physicists and two technicians, and with this limited personnel we have not been able to set up an alternate track for those students intending to go into high‐school teaching or to seek employment with only the bachelor’s degree.

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