Southwestern Oklahoma State University - Bulldog Yearbook (Weatherford, OK)

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= DEPARTMENT OF History AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Dora ANN StEwart, A. B., M. A. A. B. Oklahoma City College M A.. University of Oklahoma The Department here represented affords opportunity for large de- velopment in the field of history, political science, economy, and reiated sociology. Our purpose is to lay the foundation of a sound public senti- ment as well as to afford a knowledge of the complex workings of the American administrative system with emphasis placed upon integrity as the surest guarantee of good government. We seek through our teachings to raise the standard of civic conduct in the community. The courses afford opportunity for a serious study of history, de- veloping an historical attitude of mind comprehended in love of truth, clear sightedness, and sanity of judgment. On the road to the establish- ment of fact the Department seeks to weigh evidence thus developing a judgment wh ich will become more skillful with use. Our constant endeavor to discover the truth must result in an increased respect for iu We believe that only facts that are capable of interpretation, of being intelligibly grouped, have educational value. Hence our appeals are to the desire to find out why things have taken place, to go into cause and effect to illumine the facts of history. Our aim is to develop an enlightened patriotism—a patriotism which shall be faithful to the Nation’s best interests, lifting the student to a proper comprehension of the world, and to a better understanding of his own place in it. We thus endeavor to connect the life of the student with the life of past humanity. twenty-seven

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Dr. F. B. Har rincton, A. B., M. A., Ph. D. A. B. Oberlin College, M. A, University of Minnesota, Ph. D. University of Chicago. The Department of Education comprises three departments within itself: the department of education proper, the training school, and the department of high school supervision. The Department of Education offers theoretical and practical college courses in elementary and ad- vanced psychology, pedagogy and the art of teaching, history of education, and courses in methods and curriculum designed to satisfy all require- ments for various state certificates, as weil as more advanced courses for the benefit of those obtaining degrees. The Training School main- tains an organization of eight grades in which critic teachers direct the work of students in observation and practice teaching. The two-fold purpose of the Training Schoo] is to afford opportunity for young teach- ers to “learn their trade,” and to develop a school where the best methods of teaching and the most recent lines of school procedure are exemplified. The High School classes of Southwestern are, for the most part, taught by Seniors, whose class room procedure is under the immediate direction of a critic teacher. Practice teaching in the High School has lately been made a requirement for those who receive their degrees, and, accordingly, this branch of departmental activities has recently received added im- portance. In addition to their regular activities the children of the Train- ing School are also used by various other departments for the purpose of giving practice teaching in special lines of endeavor, such as, music, art, physical training, playground, manual training, and home economics, twenty-six

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Grace EvizABETH JENCKE, A. B., A. M. A. B. Washington University A, M. Washington University Civilization depends upon communication, chiefly communication through language. The Department of English of Southwestern re- cognizes the responisibility and the privilege placed upon it by this fact. Through the required and elective courses in composition an organized effort is made to help the student aquire such ability in the use of the spoken and the written word as will enable him to give the best servic: of which he is capable to his community. Courses in public speaking and in journalism give practical, stimulating assistance in this training. Recognizing literature as a storehouse of the civilization of the past, the department tries to give an equal amount of attention to afford- ing students the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the finest works in the field, thereby increasing their powers of literary enjovment and appreciation, and helping to solve, in part, for them, and perhaps for many of those who will some day be their pupils, the important problem of wholesome employment of leisure time. Work in literature, however, is by no means confined to the pro- ductions of the past. It is but natural thaf an individual’s chief interest should lie in persons and situations of his own time, and so courses in recent novel, contemporary poetry, and modern drama are offered. Although the specific aims of this department are many and diverse those two broad, general ones underlie and give direction to each of the courses in college English. twenty-eight