North Carolina Wesleyan College - Dissenter Yearbook (Rocky Mount, NC)

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PSYCHOLOGY The Psychology depart- ment is the newest addition to the Science Division. As a natural science, course of- ferings emphasize labora- tory experimentation and research with students par- ticipating as subjects as well as experimenters. The class lectures and labs covering the methods, concepts, and problems in various fields of psychology are integrated in a seminar during the psych. major's senior year. Far left: H.R. Brackettg left: Dr. Jane E. Ranney.

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l Xxx V BIOLOGY The first year of the Seventies is seeing an in- creased emphasis on ecology-and Wesleyanls biology department is no exception. Interest in con- trolling overpopulation, water and air pollution, and loss of natural re- sources was the stimula- tion for both individual projects and course stu- dies. Supplementary stu- dies were made in taxono- my, physiology, Zoology, and genetics. Group discussions, in- dividual reading, labora- tory investigation, field trips, and lectures were used in the department to cover the principles that this study of life encom- passes. Far left: Edward Brandtg upper center: Faydine Brandtg lower center: stu- dents John Roberts and John Kordulakg left: Dr. A.W. Sharer. l I l ! P