Stephens College - Stephensophia Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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Division of Humanities Page 31 in 1. 5? L me Miss LOUISE DUDLEY Heading the Humanities Division which brings all the arts down to earth and up to date. is a faculty committee whose members represent the five basic fields of study offered in the division. Miss Louise Dudley, chairman of the committee, is specifically concerned with the Introduction of Literature classes. This particular course is necessary for an evaluation and comprehension of all the arts. Representing the literature department is Mrs. Zay Rusk Sullens who, with the other instructors in the course, helps the individual student discover a source of recreation and inspiration in literature. The aim of this department is to encourage students to form the habit of reading good literature. The field of drama has, as its committee delegate, Mr. Cameron King. This section includes not only instruction in acting, but also lessons in the intricate backstage work that is necessary before a production can be put behind the footlights. This year the beginning acting classes produced forty one-act plays on the Lodge stage. Four major productions were given in the auditorium by the ad- vanced classes. The scenery and lighting were conceived a11d executed by the students in the Scene Shop. Through this type of course, the department develops a further awareness of drama and the technical proficiency necessary for vocational work in the theater. Music for pleasure and music for a vocation is the slogan of classes offered by the music depart- ment, represented on the Humanities committee by Mr. Basil D. Gauntlett. The Conservatory. the college music center, contains both classrooms where the theory of music is taught and rooms where the students may practice. In the new music building on Broadway. a listening room and a library equipped with literature about music has been established this year. Orchestra. Student Trio. Band. Glee Club, Sunrise Choir, Choristers, Dance Band, Music Service Guild. and Burrall Choir are a few of the musical groups sponsored by this department. The art department, headed by Mr. Russell Green. studied better city planning in this year's photography, painting, and industrial design classes. The picturesque Art Center houses the class- rooms where the art courses are taught. A new addition to the department is an art gallery where various paintings of national and international interest are displayed. The Division of Humanities, consisting of the art, music. literature. and drama departments. is a coordinated group which helps at Stephens to keep culture alive in a world at war.

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Social Studies The goal of the Social Studies Division, according to Dr. John A. Decker, head of the division, is to prepare the young women enrolled in our classes to assume their responsibilities as intelligent citizens and progressive civic leaders in their home communities. The members of this division feel that college- trained women are in a position to exert a determining influence in national and community life. For this reason, it is the ambi- tion of the staff to make Stephens students aware of America's major civic problems, to teach them how to study these problems critically, and to develop each studentfs desire to work construc- tively toward their solution. This year, in all courses offered in the division, special attention has been given to the changes in American life resulting from the war and the new problems which will arise in the post-war worldf' The basic course offered by the division is Social Problems, which attempts to introduce the student to the major civic problems of contemporary American life. The division also offers DR- JOHN A- DECKER courses in history, economics, sociology, government, and international relations. Last spring a new course in Com- munity Leadership was inaugurated. It challenges campus leaders with the possibilities of civic leadership in their liunie communities after graduation. Columbia is used as a laboratory, and students enrolled in this division have a chance to visit local institutions and interview local civic leaders. Among the clubs sponsored by the Social Science Division are the Stephens League, which sponsored the mock political campaign last October, and the Foreign Relations Club. xxliosf- major project was the international relations lecture series. Ur. ,Vlelom looks irileresled . . . Dr. Decker looks .surprised Page 30

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