Elizabethtown Community College - ECCo Yearbook (Elizabethtown, KY)

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time HUMANITIES In the class Music in Western Civilization, students learn to listen to records so that they can understand how melody, rhythm, and harmony fit together to give the music meaning. At the same time they learn to recognize the composers and styles of great music from the various periods of music history. The greatest art of Western Civilization, projected in color on a 10 X 15 foot screen, gathers the attention of students taking the Art History humanities courses. Sculpture, architecture and painting are illustrated by 35MM slides made in the world's most famous galleries and museums as the course moves forward from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the Gothic, Renais- sance and Baroque styles to end in the phantasmagoria of modern art. Beyond the slide lecture, students may study these works at their own leisure at the slide-study screen in the audio-visual room adjacent to the library. Detailed views and close-up analysis make available intimate knowledge of the works of master artists, sculptors and architects, and bring to the student even greater understanding and appreciation than could be achieved by first-hand examination of the original works.

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12 After a semester in the reading laboratory, students can cover reading assignments in one-half or one-third the time it formerly took and remember more of what they read than they ever thought possible. In an age when knowledge doubles frequently and current theories become obsolete overnight, speed and accuracy in reading is the only way any college student can keep up with his own generation. Students in the Reading Center double or triple their reading speed in one semester without any loss in compre- hension. The semi-automated laboratories are available to any student who needs or wants to improve his reading skills. Programmed to accommodate readers with varying reading abilities, the laboratories concentrate on specific physiological aspects of reading which train students to read increasingly difficult material, while at the same time raising both comprehension and speed.

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i | | FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT HISTORY The subject of history is at the very center of a liberal arts curricu- lum. Basic to many fields in Arts and Sciences is an understanding of man's struggle and his accomplish- ments. Elizabethtown Community College offers surveys of American History and European History in addition to a number of more specialized history courses in the belief that an intelligent under- standing of the complexities of civilization is vital for intellectual maturity. The Modern Foreign Language Department at Elizabethtown Com- munity College offers the first four semesters of French, German and Spanish. As a branch of the liberal arts curriculum, one of the funda- mental aims of language study is to broaden and deepen the students acquaintance with the world about him through the medium of language and literature. Facilities at ECC include a modern laboratory with thirty listening and fifteen re- cording stations. The student who offers two high school units of a foreign language may register for the first semester of the intermediate course if he scores satisfactorily on a placement test at the time of registration.