San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Germanic Course Now Includes Hebrew The unexpected popularity of the non-transferable Conversational Hebrew has encouraged the addition of credit Hebrew courses in both the Day and Evening Divisions for the next semester. Mr. Adel: Lipszyc instructs the night class. As the Common Market, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States are be- coming the realities of life on a globe that is being united by communication, isolationism has passed into history. Aiding communication in this new world, the GERMANIC LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT has added maps, educational films, and tape recorders to supplement the tvvo years of German, Latin, and Russian taught in both Evening and Day Divisions. This equipment is accessible to 300 students, an enrollment which has doubled with- in two years. A new non-credit Evening course in Hebrew had an unanticipated enrollment of 20. Doing research to find the history of a statuette presented to the Omnibus Club by the German Con- sulate in 1953, Richard Nielson, Glenda Smith, and Edmund Stephens find pertinent facts about it. Left, Dr. William Samelson points out Germany's relations to other European countries in order to explain the German language influence in these countries, while Roger Jackson and Richard Thorne add comments. Below, explaining German common names, Bess Hieronymus ioins her classmates Vernon Schievilbein, and Helen Kelly, in discussing phases of the German language. l I07

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Romance Languages Develop Fluency Watching over the SAC foreign language laboratory, one ot the most elaborate in the United States, is instructor John Anderson. Right, Je ne comprends pas! means I do not know in English, and that is James Marshall's reply as he listens to Marian Means read from her textbook in their Evening class. Above, But no, says Gloria Garcia, as she is approached by Harvey Hirsch in their Evening French class. l06 Designed to develop the student's ability to speak a second language, the ROMANCE LAN- GUAGE DEPARTMENT offers three credit courses in French and in Spanish in both the Day and Evening Divisions and two in Italian at night. Elementary and intermediate courses in- clude basic grammar, vocabulary and literature. More advanced courses stress oral and written reports and are mainly conducted in the language studied. To transmit eight learning programs simul- taneously, new channels are being added to the master console in the laboratory, Where students perfect their speech and comprehension by listen- ing to foreign recordings.

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Persons in Many Fields Utilize Math ,Ig Explaining the principles of factoring to a Math 300 class, Mrs. Mary Knobelsdorf, instructor in mathematics, illustrates the step-by-step procedures to be followed in figuring even a simple equation such as the one on the board. Students often have trouble with homework or other problems con- cerning mathematics. These difficulties may be settled during private conferences. Here Mrs. Helen Wheeler enlightens Barbara Wheeler on a difficult problem. To the student with a strong desire to learn and the will to spend unlimited hours solving problems- the DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS needs yOu! A dedicated math major does not just want a diploma, he wants to learn the new as well as to understand the old, says Dr. Paul R. Culwell, department chair- man and dean ofthe college. Today mathematics courses are directed more to students at various levels and in different fields, in- stead of solely to math maiors. Using the secret symbols and signs of the cult of people who understand the mysteries of plane analytical geometry, that are unintelli- gible to laymen, Mr. George B. Gray instructs his Evening students in the problems of Cartesian coordinates, polar coordinates, parametric equa- tions, and loci. I08