The fall term began on the Malibu campus,¹ featuring a new interdisciplinary curriculum that had been designed for what would become Seaver College. The seventeen departments from the LA campus were lumped into six broad divisions: humanities, social science, natural science, communication, religion, and fine arts.² The interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum was reinforced by the campus's master plan, as designed by William Pereira, with closely clustered buildings, a common laboratory, and small classrooms with only one lecture hall.³

Among the faculty responsible for planning the new curriculum were Jerry Hudson, James Smythe, and Tony Ash.⁴