Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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I 'E IRD IDT of .th in ed 53 its gh d O 1- S i- 1! DEPARTMENT CDE CQMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTEATICDN The Department of Commerce and Business Administration has as its primary motive the training of teachers of the commercial subjects. Its second- ary motive is to prepare for the business world students desiring such training. In order to carry out the first objective, the department offers both a major and a minor, and those students who complete the major are prepared to handle a full-time position in any first-class high school. A major is offered in Business Administration and Secretarial Training for those who want to enter the business world. Minors are also offered in these two fields. The department is also prepared to offer a Business Administration on an A. B. degree. ' Every effort is made by the department to place its graduates. In placing those who wish to teach, it cooperates with the Department of Education, and in addition maintains a placement bureau to aid those who wish to find places in the business World. DR. HENRY M. ALEXANDER MINNIE B- JAMES HUGH G. WALES COMMERCE STUDENT l17I if

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DEPARTMENT QE BICDLQGICAL SCIENCE ffx W. T. GARRETT R. A. KINNAIRD G. CARL SCHOWENGERDT The Biology Division is organized to meet the needs of a varied group of students. It attempts to offer fundamental courses which are standard with other colleges, as well as special work for its own students. Students found in the various courses include those who are majoring in Biologyg those who need it to meet the general requirementsg those who take it for its cultural valueg and a large number who need it for supplementary work in the Departments of Agriculture, Home Economics, Education, Social Science and Psychology. The Division of Agriculture aims to train those students who will teach agriculture in the high schools in the elements of agricultural principles and practices. This division of the department also serves those students who do not plan to teach agriculture, but whose purpose is an acquisition of agricul- tural knowledge which will help make them scientific farmers. An opportunity to see and to study the most modern scientific practices applied in agriculture is afforded the student by the college farm of approxi- mately two hundred acres. llhl i

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DEPARTMENT CDF EDUCATICDN 4 I-I. R. DIETERICH MARY KEITH DORA B. SMITH CHLoE MILLIKAN L. G. SOMERVILLE A. H. CooPER MARGARET FRANKEN KATHERINE FRANKEN ELIZABETH WHITE Not in picture-MR. HOMER T. PHILLIPS, Clmirnmn of Deparzmenr. Miss GRACE M. SHEPHERD. Teaching is a fine art and a science. The Department of Education in our Teachers' College develops an appreciation of teaching as an art and a science. To be an efficient teacher an individual must be well grounded in the funda- mental principles upon which all teaching is based. The Department of Educa- tion inducts the student into the philosophy of education and the principles out of which methods arise. The Department of Education gives the future teacher a knowledge of the nature of children-their capacities and interests-and the principles of learning, so that teaching may be done easily and effectively on the child's level. In the Department of Education the student teachers learn to adapt content subjects to the abilities and the needs of the pupilsg to provide effective learning situationsg to be intelligently criticalg to obtain an under- standing of the principles of school administration, and of supervision of E181 i