Oklahoma Christian University - Aerie Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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- - . l-lNl: ARTS ONE DOES NOT HAVE To be a music maior To Take lessons in any division of The Department of Music. IT provides The TirsT Tvvo years of music required for The degree of Bachelor of Music in piano, or- gan, public school music, Theory, band, and or- chesTra insTrumenTs. The TaculTy inviTes every sTu- denT of The college To Take some music subiecT as an elecTive and enjoy The advanTages ThaT are gained in This direcTion. Oral inTerpreTaTion, sTagecraTT, sTudy of The greaT playvvrighTs and Their works, acting and play producTion are The fields covered by The Speech and Drama Department. STudenTs who enroll in This curriculum clo so for boTh culTural and voca- Tional purposes. Several plays are given in boTh TradiTional and arena forms. Open Try-ouTs are G.-5 , I Q 1 V '1 'jf ' t K N . ig, held for each producTion. Anyone in The college is eligible wheTher he is Taking work in dramaTics or noT. Plays are produced in coniuncTion wiTh Masque and Dagger. Phoenix CoIlege's Department of Art was es- Tablished for all sTudenTs inTeresTed in The conTribu- Tion of arT To The broad culTural aspecTs of liberal educaTion, Tor sTudenTs planning To Teach arT, and for sTudenTs desiring To follow arT professionally. No one arT is sTudied in isolaTion from The oThers. Members of The classes include The beginner in arT and design as well as crafTsmen, painTers, sculp- Tors, archiTecTs, phoTographers, hisTorians, busi- nessmen and women, housewives, and The general sTudenTs. All find The individual insTrucTion, cou- pled wiTh The consTanT exchange of ThoughT and expression, a sTimulus To The creaTive spiriT. Y X3-

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BEI-IAVIORAL and SOCIAL SCIENCES FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN ORDER TO take his place in the commencement line, the graduat- ing student must complete at least six hours of the courses offered by the Social Science Department. The choice includes areas of his- tory, geography, government, current events, sociology and the education courses. The Psychology Department offers courses in which the stu- dent learns much of the how and why of human behavior fmany times confirming his opinion of the character next to himl. Besides work in general psychology, spe- cific areas of life are dealt with in such courses as business, law en- forcement and adiustment psy- chology. Preparing students for under- standing the wide world is the Foreign Language Department. French, German and Spanish are available in beginning and ad- vanced forms. The Philosophy Department has been termed the area for thinking students. Helping to de- velop future Platos are courses in conduct and logic.