Prairie View A and M University - Pantherland Yearbook (Prairie View, TX)

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CABINET Inspecting welding at an N.Y.A. shop. Left to right: O. J. Baker, Librarian; E. M. Norris, Director of Graduate Study; T. R Solomon. Registrar: E. B. Evans, State Leader of Cooperative Extension

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DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE The Division of Agriculture offers two four-year curricula leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. The entrance requirements for these curricula are the same as for the other divisions of the college. The work in this division centers around instruction and practice in Agricultural Education, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Horticulture, Rural Economics, Rural Engineering, Rural Health, Rural Sociology, Special Agricultural Science and Veterinary Science. In addition to’subjects purely agricultural the student is given instruction in professional and vocational subjects and the f sciences closely related to agriculture. The division furnishes leaders in the vocational agricultural field, in the extension service, and in farming. The 174 vocational agriculture departments in Texas public schools are active in activities directed toward the war effort.