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The focus of this essay is to examine how general education requirements and advising are connected in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. To do this, we begin with a brief description and history of general education requirements. We move next to a description of the advising system and general education requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences and the current requirements and advising system and conclude with an overview of where the College is headed within the next three to five years.

The focus of this essay is to examine how general education requirements and advising are connected in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. To do this, we begin with a brief description and history of general education requirements. We move next to a description of the advising system and general education requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences and the current requirements and advising system and conclude with an overview of where the College is headed within the next three to five years.

This dissertation is a study of changing economic strategies in the Mogollon Southwestern United States. An overview of Mogollon economic history reveals a long pattern of fluctuation and diversity in subsistence strategies, and also lends support to the idea that cycles of adaptive diversity continued throughout the pueblo period even when intensive agricultural strategies were practiced. Following this line of thought, a model of subsistence change is presented which helps to explain observed changes in economic strategies. A key part of the model focuses on the relationship between resource diversity and intensification. It is shown that while the relative proportion of hunting and gathering may have decreased through time, because of population growth the absolute amount of meat and/or non-domesticated plants would have increased. Thus, these strategies were not casual endeavors but a critical, integral part of the subsistence regime. Three different strategies are developed which explain the integration of hunting and gathering with agriculture. Strategy A, a seasonal round, is an option in which consumers move to goods through a series of residential moves. Strategy B, logistical mobility, is a strategy in which part of the population is sedentary while part implements logistical mobility to move goods to consumers. A third strategy, Strategy C, is one of regional symbiotic exchange in which two groups exchange food to ensure a balanced diet. One population is involved in agricultural pursuits while the second population is a more mobile one engaged primarily in hunting and gathering. By trading, both groups are able to increase diversity in their subsistence base and minimize effort. To document which strategies were implemented and how these strategies changed through time, the lithic assemblages from 100 sites in east-central Arizona which date to between A.D. 700 and A.D. 1475 were analyzed. Several locational variables were recorded as well. Four major time periods were studied and the dominant economic strategy was determined. The results of this study illustrate the manner in which prehistoric subsistence strategies changed through time. These changes are related to environmental, technological and social change as well as population growth.

The second story, ''Araki Thomas,'' is set in the same world as that of Mr. [Shusaku Endo]'s famous later novel ''Silence.'' Araki is a Japanese who studies to be a priest in Rome in the 17th century. He returns to Japan during a period when being a Catholic means immediate torture and death. Burdened by the expectations aroused by his stay at the heart of the true faith, he apostatizes soon after his arrest and torture. His fame as a Japanese studying theology in Rome changes into notoriety as the fallen padre. Contact with the West has weakened rather than strengthened the man. ''Araki Thomas'' is told as if it were historical fact, with no dramatic flourishes. It is impossible that its 12 pages should build up to the power of ''Silence,'' but it adds a strand to the overall theme of ''Foreign Studies.''