Eastern Washington University - Kinnikinick Yearbook (Cheney, WA)

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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.

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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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1 933 Kl NN I K I NICK DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Ceylon S. Kingston With the rapid increase in the tempo of modern life and the greater tendency toward complexity in social relations there has come a shift of emphasis in the subjects taught under the general head of the social sciences. Where once a fac- tual knowledge of the past served to mark the educated man, now some acquaint- ance with the forces that move and motivate society is an essential to efficient citizenship. From this need arises the courses devoted to a study of economics and sociology. Yet the original purpose of all study — knowledge of what has been said and done in the world — can not be wholly ignored, and this exami- nation and interpretation of the past is the theme of the courses in history, the most distinctive group given being those in the history of the Northwest, with particular reference to the exploration and development of Washington and the Inland Empire regions.