North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT The curriculum in Industrial Management is designed to prepare students for executive and administrative positions in industry and engineering. The student majorina in Industrial Management receives training from three sources : 1. The School of C.eneral Science furnishes the liasic, general, and cultural training. 2. The School of Engineering provides the technical mstnction in civil, textile, electrical, and mechanical engineering. 3. The Department of Industrial Managemetit gives the training in the management and administration of industrial projects. The student, therefore, hecomes not only a well-rounded technical expert, hut also has the qualifications for administering tlie husiness side of the industrial or engineering enterprise. DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION The Department of I ' .usiness . dnnnistration of State College was organized in 1921, and has now heen in operation for approx- imately two years. The purpose of the Business , .,-, ... : ' .:,■ . dministration courses is to equip the students tn enter the profession of Business Administration I ' koi. .Mokn .and to hecomc Managers of Corporations, Sales- men, ,- ccountants. Statisticians, and Brsiness Managers. In the 1923 commencement the Department of Busness . ilniims- tration graduated six as its first graduating class from this institution. These graduates are now connected with large corporations like the Xational Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio, and are making good in their profession. The 1924 Freshman class of State College has nearly titty nien w ' lio have come to this institution for the purjiose id ' getting training in the Business Administration course. Even though the course has not heen long estahlished it is certainly drawing its share of the student body and should continue to do so on an even greater scale in the future. The Department of lUisiness Administration maintains in con- nection with its work a Placement Bureau, whereby it undertakes to give the graduate an opportunity to choose the particular business which he desires to enter and to make a connection with the large and more important liusiness concerns. Tlie Deiiartment. through its Placement Bureau, could have placed last June, 1923, many more men „ , h.id it liad them available. Pkoi . lolKNKV DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS The present Department of . gricultural Economics is the direct outcome of work started three years ago by Dr. C. C. Taylor. Under tile new organization of State College intcj three schools the Depart- ment of .Agricultural Economics was placed in the School of General Science. Dr. G. W. Forster, formerly acting chief of the office of Farm Management, U. S. Department of . griculture, Washington, 1). C, was selected head of the Department in September, 1923. .Mr. R. J. Saville, formerly of the h ' arm Crops Department of this institu- tion, was made assistant to Dr. Forster. The Department is organized into six major divisions as follows: Farm .Management, Economics of Production, Statistics and .Accounting, l ' ' arni h ' inance. Marketing and Land Economics. The major objectives of the Department are: to discover and make available facts regarding farming which will lead to increasing the profitableness of agriculture in the State ; to train students so that they may undertake independent investigations in the field of agricultural economics; to fit students to take positions as farm man- agers ; and to supply men with training so that they may take positions with commercial firms dealing with agricultural products or im- plements. Du. I ' ni -n;k Page Twenty. five

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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOC.Y AND ENTOMOLOGY The Department of Zoology and Entomology is charged with tlie duty of studying the animal life of the Slate and transmitting this knowledge to the students of this College. Special studies have heen made of the insects, especially those which are of economic importance. Special studies are also hciiig carried on in the physiology and heredity of an- imals, as well as their distrihution. The I )ei)artment conducts a modern a])iary where the students h,i e ihe npportunity to obscure and practice modern methods of bee-keeping. The stndeiu has, tlierefore, a chance to obser e research in a wide variety of subjects and to pick a lield of s))ecial interest for pursuit during his Senior and graduate ear. Prok. Metc. lk DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY The Department of Socicilogy and History is organized to meet two demands: the first is ibat of training specialists in tlie field of Rural Sociology; the other is to give instruction in the liistorical background of our economic and social life. The instruc- tion in liistory serves, therefore, as ;i service course for other major work. The Scjciology course is intendeil to train students for scientific rural social teaching and investigatinn. . fter receiving li.asic in- struction in the principles .ind problems of social life, the student specializes in the study of rural problems. This work is sup])le- mrnted liy training in technical agriculture. I ' uur. Cook I ' roi-. . mikkson DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION . priiminent e(Uicator has said that the ceiUer of interest in the tield of education tod.iy i inubiulitedly the subject of the rela- tion between education .and industrv. .St.ate College, therefore, has a splendid o])portnnity to serve the Istate by helping to arrive at .a lietter understanding of this relationship, and of the place and vaiue ol work-acti ities in our educational plan. Industries need men of not only greater technic.il ellicienc but with better social ruder st,iiiding. .Schools tieed teadiers of occupations, training and cn- perience who can show how the right kind of education can lunctioii in the work of tlie world, and how the activities and problems nf the work-a-day wurld can improve education. The Departmenl of Vocational b.diuation aims ti prep.ire teachers with a three fobl scientific knowledge of people, of industry, ,iiid of c-ducitinn. r ' AliE. rWE.NTV.FOUH

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