Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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on-credit COUFSES The Division of Continuing Educa- tion, under the direction of Dr. Wade Ledet, offered 13 non-credit courses for students and non-students of the Thi- bodaux area. Enrollment in these courses was lim- ited and a minimum of 15 students is necessary for a course to be taught. The courses cannot be counted for any degree offered by the university. To register, an application must be attained from the Guidance Services Office in the Student Union. The fees range from S30 to 880. depending on the course and its requirements. The courses were Basic Home and Auto Maintenance, Chinese Home Cooking and Conversational Spanish. Creative Writing, Houseplants: their care and cultureg Painting I and Paint- ing II. Beginning Photography: Intermediate Photography: Pop and Folk Guitar for Beginners: and World of Wine I. ning Education Graduate school The Graduate School offers Master's degrees in five curricula: Applied Mathe- matics, Business Administration, Counse- lor Education, Educational Administra- tion and Supervision. and Educational Curriculum and Instruction. For those persons with special needs or interests not met by graduate curricula, the graduate school offers graduate study opportunities not leading to a degree. Dr. Vern Pitre is dean of the graduate school. There is no graduate faculty, but faculty members are utilized from the aca- demic colleges and divisions. Ruby Can- non and Alice Pecorora are both graduate assistants in the department. Stephanie Caballero is the secretary. Dr. Vern Pitre, dean of the graduate school, helps ' students map out their schedule during registra- tion.

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Mini- se ester created by Kevin Fambrough Students usually feel there is never enough time to complete course work for any one class, much less an entire semester's load. But at the end of the summer session, a new challenge issued: a 15-day, 3 hours-a-day, take-only-one-course learning spree. While many other universities split their sum- mers between two short summer semesters, Nic- holls has traditionally conducted only one. In an effort to put university facilities to use between the usual summer and fall break, a mini-semes- ter was created. Twenty courses were offered based on a survey held among the 2,300 summer students. Fifteen courses were offered for undergraduates, three restricted to graduates and two courses open to both graduates and undergraduates on the junior! senior level. The courses themselves varied from 101 basics like English, math, and accounting to computer science, nursing and a graduate psychology course. Dr. Francis Miller, instructor of the graduate psychology course, said the class met for the same number of class hours as it would during a regular semester C451 The only problem is the students, he explained, since they couldn't delay work over a weekend, something would have to be done each day. All courses were taught in one building, Peltier Hall, with 43 students enrolling for the 9 a.m. to noon classes. No dropping of a class was allowed after a student signed up. Since they were limited to only one course, dropping it would mean resigning from the university. Although the mini-semester was a test adminis- tered by the University College under Dr. Wade Ledet, it could be the first step to a division of the summer into two equal sessions for students. This type of arrangement would be attractive to some students who couldn't come for a single 296 month session. University College 261

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