Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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. M- i- - . .. ■ -r -------------------------------------------------------- - ’12 1' — Language Department MARGUERITE IkNAYAN Chair hum. Departwen t of I'ortign Languages A.B., A.M., University of Chicago Fragments of French and Spanish sentences were often heard issuing frem the language lounge in Fobcs or from the language tables in the dining room at noon, for the interest in foreign language is an active one at Monticcllo. Two years of French courses are offered, and in Spanish two additional advanced courses arc provided: Conversation and Spanish Literature. The latter course acquaints the student not only with the language, but also with the literature, the culture, and the history of Spain. In order to help students practice their conversation and add to their understanding of the Spanish and French peoples, the language lounge is open at all times. Here arc many records of native songs and hook shelves lined with novels, dictionaries, and reference books. The walls are decorated with sombreros and colorful travel posters. French and Spanish magazines and newspapers are available, so that the student may find out recent developments and trends of thought in there countries as well as practice her translation. Occasionally films of these countries are shown. Dagny Midelfart A.B., Wells College; Paul John Cooke B.L.S., Simmons School %lf A.B., A.M., Ph.D.,Uni- Library Science; M.A., Herbert A. Woodbury versity of Illinois University of Wisconsin A.B., Harvard College

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 Psychology Department Doctor Elvcna Mattson teaches the course of Psychology, and its popularity shows how vital a fundamental understanding of “the thinking, feeling, and doing of people ' is to a well-rounded education and a well-planned life. Today the interest of students in human make-up and behavior, in personality problems and in intelligence, in emotional behavior and in motivation has greatly increased as a result of the present tangled mass of human relationships on a world-wide scale. Never before was the science which attempts ‘ to describe, understand, predict, and control the behavior of people so important. Of particular interest to the classroom were Miss Mattson’s vivid accounts of her personal experience in the field of psychology.

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Social Science Department Homer F. Young Chairman, Department of Social Sciences B.A., Ohio University; M.A., Harvard University The social sciences deal with the relationship of man to his social and physical environment. This department is sub-divided into history, sociology, government, economics, and geography. The history courses are designed to make the student aware of the continuity and change in human affairs and more capable of planning for the future by use of knowledge of causes and results of past acts. Most of the juniors take modern European history, while those students especially interested in Latin America or in the culture of the United States take the respective history courses. Sociology consists of the study of human life in terms of social institutions. The study of crime and punishment, juvenile delinquency, marriage problems, and patterns of community living holds the student’s interest. The courses in government and economics provide the student with ir.foima-tion necessary to an intelligent citizen and voter. Geography includes geomorphology, weather and climate, and general geography, which is a cultural study of the potentialities of man's environment and his use of them. The Social Science Department also sponsors the International Relations Club. C. Warren Griffiths A.B., College of Wooster; B.D., Union Thco- Alice Hotchkiss logical Seminary; M.A., B.S., Columbia Univer- Robert G. chmidt University of Wiscon- sity; M.A., Mills Col- A.B., Illinois College; sin; Ph.D., University lege; Ph.D., University M.A., Harvard Univer-of Chicago of California sity