Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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TDean {Kand The School of Science This School, in co-ordination with the Academic School, offers a wide variety of courses, ranging all the way from strictly scientific ones to courses of a very liberal nature. For the first two years the courses are largely prescribed — except in the case of special students who are not candidates for a degree, or who are preparing for a medical profession — giving the fundamentals of Zoology, Botany, Geology, and courses in Government, English, Mathematics, Modern Language;.. This basic training is designed to acquaint the student with a broad field of knowledge without imposing upon him the necessity for immediately select- ing a life work. The courses worked out and published in the catalogs are the ones in most frequent demand, but do not have to be adhered to strictly. The fields open to the science student at the beginning of his juni or year may be grouped as follows: 1. Special Science Courses. This is the technical side of the Science School, and offers splendid training to those students who wish to devote their lives to work in Chemistry, Physics, or some branch of Biology. Fre- quently, students preparing for professional studies in medicine take their major in Chemistry and minor in Zoology. 2. Commerce and Economics. Since the removal of the Business School from this college, provision has been made such that a candidate for a degree in the Science School may choose his course largely from the Depart- ments of Finance and Economics. Thus, with the basic course, and with the subjects offered in the Commerce and Economics course, one may be well prepared to enter the business world or to continue his studies at some other institution. 3. Education. Many science students decide that they wish to teach. In that case they may choose their work largely from the Department of Education, together with allied subjects calculated to aid in fitting one to become a teacher. Graduates in Science Education are eligible for life license to teach in the secondary schools of Mississippi. 4. General Courses. Some students, after having reached their junior year, still do not wish to specialize; they desire rather to secure a liberal education. Students in this category adopt the General Course, which, due to the ample opportunities to elect courses from the Academic School, admirably satisfies their desires. Freedom of election is a principle, but it is not allowed to become an easy method of obtaining a degree. A few hours of pure science are required each semester during the junior and senior years; election is carefully supervised at all times. Twai