Illinois Wesleyan University - Wesleyana Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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l 'wss-'-,,,.wqr Gregg C. Gardner, M.B.A., Bradley University Y ,, M., Oliver Luerssen, M.B.A., University of Chicago . . . Business. . . . Business. Dennis LaVigne, M.A., Miami University . . . Economics. I-. i Donald Snyder, M.A., Miami University . . . Donald Strand, Ph.D., University of Economics. Minnesota . . . Insurance.

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ness fs' ' ,mr-. :eases fi Fi IME' , K-is Robert Harrington, Ph.D., State University of Iowa . . . Chairman of the Division of Business Administration and Economics. THE DIVISIO OE BUSINESS A D ECO OIVIICS The basic goal of the Division of Business and Economics is to prepare students ultimately to assume roles of leadership and responsibility in business and government. Within the Division, there are three curricula from which a student may choose an area of concentration. These areas are Business Administration, Economics, and Finance and Insurance. Majors in Business Administration are provided with a balanced study in preparation for entry into business or government and for study at the graduate level. Because of the increasingly quantitative and international character of modern business practice, a strong mathematical base and one year of a foreign language is considered optimum. With a concentration in the Department of Economics an attempt is made to develop the students' ability to grasp the fundamentals involved in the social process of allocat- ing scarce resources among competing ends. The eventual aim is to prepare the student for a career in business or public administration or for graduate study. The Department of Finance and Insurance offers an opportunity in education that is a rarity outside of major universities. The course offerings are aimed both at those who desire a general business background but wish to apply their business education to the operation of a single industry and at those who desire entry in the insurance industry itself. An internship program provides an additional opportunity for a well- founded education in the industry. All of these curricula are designed to establish a foundation for continuing education with emphasis upon high standards of ethical conduct and broad social responsibility. All of this is intended to be arrayed against an extensive Liberal Arts background in order to provide a well-balanced base for a future in business.

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.lerry Stone, LL.B., University of Oklahoma, Ph.D., Northwestern University . . . Chairman of the Division of Humanities. THE DIVISIO OFH MA ITIE The term humanities is derived from the Latin word humanitas. Classical man was aware of his humanness through participation in the insight, vision, and moral passion contained in the Graeco-Roman literary tradition. Today, the humanities include the art, literature, and languages of all cultures. The humanities share in the vision through which others have experienced life's meaning. The humanities strive to free man from the provincialism of his particular time and place. Indeed, the term uliberal arts means the discipline of those skills which bring increased freedom fliberalsl. In our Humanities Division each department seeks through its particular skills to help develop freer men. The separate divisions at Illinois Wesleyan reflect the various contents and meth- odologies of the academic disciplines. The controlled methods of the natural sciences and the tools of the social sciences also afford a deeper understanding of our human situation. The humanities respect the role these disciplines play in setting men free. Nevertheless, the humanities insist that the humanness of man is not fully understood through any one methodological approach. Humanitas is not reducible to a particular sociological, psychological, or scientific interpretation. Although divisional structures are helpful, they remain somewhat arbitrary. Vision and imagination are present in the scientific method QEinstein-Polanyi-Schillingl. The significantly Nhumanv cannot be divorced from the political, sociological, and economic dimensions of life. K For Aristotle, man is a political animal.l Inter-divisional dialogue, aware of the proper differences between methodologies, should also explore the common structure of knowledge shared by all disciplines.