After hiring consultants to review the curriculum during the 1930-31 school year, the college devised what came to be known as "The New Colorado College Plan." In the first two years at the college, science students belonged to the School of Arts and Sciences. (Professor Albright served on the first executive committee for this school.) Then students had to be admitted to one of three schools: School of Letters and Fine Arts, School of Social Sciences, School of Natural Sciences (Professor Sisam served on the first executive committee for this school). Mathematics belonged to the third school, but rather than call it a natural science, the catalog noted that the school included "natural sciences and mathematics." In keeping with the new division between the first two years and the last two years, the mathematics curriculum was divided into two pieces in the 1933 catalog listings.
The new plan also shifted the approach to requirements. Once
admitted to one of the three upper level schools, students planned
their curriculum in consultation with faculty; explicit requirements
were kept to a minimum. In their final year, however, students
had to pass a comprehensive examination.
The mathematics curriculum continued with only a few changes. In 1938, Sisam added a course titled Higher Plane Curves which included the beginnings of algebraic geometry. During the War years, several of the beginning mathematics courses were altered to meet the needs of naval personnel training on campus; Professor Albright taught elementary navigation and nautical astronomy.
* (Above image from 1935 Pikes Peak Nugget.)