San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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DIVISION OF EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING Dr. William G. Sweeney, Chairman Nearly halT oT The 6700 sTudenTs enrolled aT The college are working Toward Teaching credenTialsg Tive hundred TwenTy-seven credenTials were granTed during The I95O-5 I school year. San Jose STaTe oTTers primary, elemenTary, iunior high, general secondary, and nine special secondary credenTials, as well as adminisTraTive and supervisory credenTials in The elemenTary and secondary Tields. More Than 250 graduaTe sTudenTs are doing worlc in The Tield oT educaTion. During The lasT year The audio-visual, exTension, and special educaTion services have been expanded, The DeparTmenT OT Librarianship has been added To The division, and Tive new sTaTT members have been added To serve CaliTornia's largesT and oldesT Teac-her Training division. Shown here are Dr. Sweeney and Miss Dora SmiTh oT The DeparTmenT oT Librarianship. DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS Dr. Ralph J. SmiTh, Chairman The big evenT oT I95I-52 in The Engineering DeparTmenT was The sTarT oT consTrucTion oT The S800,000 laboraTor building. ConsTrucTion had been helld up by Ti-nancial, legal, poliTical, and maTerial problems. ATTer six years oT operaTion in Tin huTs iT appears ThaT permanenT laboraTor TaciliTies will be available Tor The llarge upper-division classes indicaTed by This year's l2O Treshmen. The MaThemaTics DeparTmenT, while conTinuing iTs program oT Teaching elemenTary maThemaTics Tor sTudenTs maioring in relaTed Tields, has expanded successTully in Two direcTions. The curriculum leading To The M.A. degree in The Teaching oT maThemaTics is being well received and, wiTh The cooperaTion OT The EducaTion DeparTmenT, iT is developing Teachers well Trained in The Teaching oT ariThmeTic in elemenTary schools. Dr. SmiTh and Dr. William Howard Myers, head oT The MaThemaTics DeparTmenT, are shown here in a discussion oT Division policies.

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TI-IE DIVISION OF APPLIED ARTS Dr. I-leper A. SoTzin, Chairman The Division OT Applied ArTs cOnsisTs OT The I-lome Economics and IndusTrial ArTs DeparTmenTs BOTh deparTmenTs OTTer proTessional Teacher Training Tor The elemenTary and secondary schools OT CaliTornia. In addiTiOn To proTessiOnal Training and OTher vOcaTiOnal obiecTives, courses OT an avOcaTional naTure are oTTered TO non-majors. The lndusTrial ArTs DeparTmenT oTTers a maior Tor The General Secondary CredenTial and The IvlasTer OT ArTs degree in lndusTrial ArTs. The I-Iome Economics DeparTmenT courses are planned To aTTOrd sTudenTs conTacTs wiTh maior aspecTs OT The Tield which cOnTribuTe speciTically TO personal and Tamily liTe. In addiTiOn TO Teacher Training, sTudenTs may gualiTy Tor pOsiTiOns in dieTeTics and insTiTuTiOnal managemenT. The I-lome Economics DeparTmenT plans TO OTTer graduaTe courses in The coming year. Dr. MargareT Jones is head OT The I-lome Economics deparTmenT. TI-IE DIVISION OF BUSINESS Dr. Earl W. ATIcinsOn, chairman The Division OT Business now has an enrOllmenT OT more Than 3000 sTudenTs, I25O Business Majors, wiTh more Than I50 candidaTes Tor Teaching credenTials and graduaTe sTudenTs working Toward Their lvIasTer's Degrees. OT all The A. B. Degrees To be given in June aT San Jose STaTe, nearly one Third OT Them will be awarded Through The Division OT Business. NOT only is San Jose STaTe's Division OT Business larger Than similar divisions in all oTher sTaTe colleges in CaliTornia, buT iT pledges iTseIT TO cOnTinued growTh and developmenT. IT TurTher pledges iTselT To keep up-To-daTe in boTh EducaTion and Business circles, in Order ThaT business graduaTes will cOnTinue To be adequaTely prepared and qualiTied Tor any changing requiremenTs ThaT may be made upon Them. Shown aT The righT is Dr. Earl ATlcinson, chairman OT The Business Division.

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DIVISION OF FINE ARTS Dr. I-Iugh W. GiIIis, Chairman Composed oT The ArT, Speech and Drama, and Music DeparT- menTs, The Fine ArTs Division is one oT The IargesT on The campus wiTh a TacuITy oT sixTy-eighT and approximaTeIy seven hundred maiors. The division is widely diversiTied, embracing work Trom acTing Through Silver PoinT ETching To XyIophone pIaying. The maior aims oT The division are To provide majors and minors in Teaching preparaTion, pre-proTessionaI Training, and, Tor The enTire college, To oTTer a high Ievel oT cuITuraI aTTainmenT. New TacuITy members This year are Barbara Baumann ISpeech and Dramai, Leonard Freiser IMusicI, and Warren P. I-IiII IArTI. A concerTed eTTorT is being made by The enTire division To make The ArTs a more viTaI TacTor on San Jose STaTe's campus. Shown here appreciaTing The Tine arTs oT The campus caTeTeria are ITrom IeTTI Dr. GiIIis, Dr. Lyle Downey and Dr. Marques ReiTzeI. DIVISION OF JOURNALISIVI AND POLICE Dr. DwighT BenTeI, Chairman STudenTs in boTh These deparTmenTs parTicipaTe in pracTicaI aspecTs oT vocaTionaI Training, aT The same Time Taking a subsTanTiaI core of liberal arTs courses which are regarded as essenTiaI Tool or service courses: in This sense, Teaching speciaIisTs Trom oTher deparT- rnenTs are considered members oT The JournaIism-Police sTaTTs. Oiiferings oi every oTher division oT The college are uTiIized. The police sTudenT spends a minimum oT I8O hours a year as a member oT some police uniT oT a municipaI governmenT. The iournaIism maior spends one TuII uarTer's inTernship wiTh a newspaper or adverTising agency. FacTors conTribuTing To The grades and The personaIiTy requiremenTs Tor These courses are raTings given b proTessionaI workers already in The Tieiid, as weII as Trom members oT The deparTmenT on campus. PIacemenT records in boTh TieIds indicaTe ThaT iT has noT been possible To TiII The demand Tor properly prepared sTudenTs. Shown here are Dr. BenTeI IrighTI and IVIr. WiIIard SchmidT oT The police school.