Eastern Washington University - Kinnikinick Yearbook (Cheney, WA)

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1933 KiNNIKINICK DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ARTS The work of this Department falls into two distinct divisions. The first concerns it- self with those skills which are fundamental- ly manual, and are designed to train the hand and the eye in accuracy of execution and sight, as well as to educate the mind in an appreciation of artistic fitness and beauty. This group includes the courses in the Fine. Domestic, and Manual Arts. The Divisions of Biological Science and Home Economics seeks to ac- quaint the student with those basic scientific facts and principles which are con- tinually operative in. and determinative of our lives and our existence. Joseph Wynne Hungate

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KiNNIKINICK 1 933 THE ADMINISTRATION rjNDER the head of Administration are listed those divisions of the work of - the school which are not concerned with the giving of instruction. The president ' s office is concerned with administrative problems of the school as a whole and with seeing that the executive powers delegated to the various offices and departments are exercised in a co-ordinated way. To the Deans is assigned the supervision of the student body at large in its social life and in its general contacts with the administrative and instructional machinery. To the offices of the Registrar and the Accountant are given the management and regulation of the student ' s enrollment and his business relations with the school. In like manner the immediate control of the student ' s life in the dormi- tories is entrusted to the various house supervisors, who are themselves responsi- ble to the Dean. The business routine of bringing the graduate and his prospective employer into contact is assigned to the Appointment Bureau.

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K I N N I K I N ' I C K 193 3 Obed J. Williamson DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION The Department of Education is primarily concerned with the professional aspect of the teacher ' s education. Experience has shown that knowledge of subject matter per se is in- sufficient guarantee of success in teaching: it is necessary, also, to provide instruction in the art of teaching. Professional training involves a study of psychology, the better to understand the human materials with which the teacher deals, a study of methods of teaching, to learn the techniques of the process, and a study of the theory of teaching, the better to understand the purposes of education and the place of the school in developing a better social order and what may be called the good life. While the purposes of the Department of Education are more specifically the development of the necessary professional background and point of view, it would be an error to assume that it makes no contribution to the cultural de- velopment of the student. In the degree that courses in education contribute toward a better understanding of the human individual and his place in society, and the student is challenged to reflect upon the purposes of life, education courses are cultural. They assist in rendering the individual more at home in the world. In this sense the Department of Education is engaged with the other departments of the school in the cooperative enterprise of producing intelligent, efficient and cultured teachers.