Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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Above: Aerospace Engineering, the new name for aeronautical engineering, will fast become a growing department in the years to come now that we have entered the space age. Here Armand Chaput is investigating the me¬ chanical properties of a theoretical lunar sur¬ face. Right: These students are working on a problem concerned with traffic engineering, one of several sections of the Civil Engineer¬ ing Department.

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SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Twenty-four curricula are available in the School of Arts and Sciences at Texas A AA, leading to B.A. or B.S. degrees. Liberal Arts, which includes the Departments of Eco¬ nomics, English, History and Government, Journalism, Mathematics, Modern Languages, and Preparatory Law, is designed for students whose abilities, interests, and aims are better served by a broad general education than by more specialized technological and scientific studies. In all curricula, the first two years are devoted to fundamen¬ tal subjects, with more specialized study following. Business Administration majors may specialize in Ac¬ counting, Building Products Marketing, Finance, General Business, Insurance, Marketing, or Personnel Administra¬ tion. In this course of study, specialization comes at the beginning of the sophomore year. A Bachelor of Business Administration degree follows completion of the chosen curriculum. The Department of Education and Psychology offers teacher education programs, as does the Department of Health and Physical Education. To prepare for teaching, a student may choose to major either in Education or one of the arts or sciences, provided that he takes a minimum of 36 hours in his specialized field. Bachelor of Science degrees are available in Botany, Chemistry, Entomology, Meteorology, Microbiology, Phys¬ ics, Preparatory Medicine, Preparatory Dentistry, and Zo¬ ology. These curricula are planned so the student who discovers a change of interests after beginning in agri¬ culture or engineering can change with a minimum loss of credit-hours. Left: These students are working in the chem¬ istry lab. Chemistry being one of several fas¬ cinating sciences offered in the school. Above: To all the B.A. students this building is a home away from home. Most of the Business Administration majors know Francis Hall by heart. Even at night you can hear them wan¬ dering through the halls seeking the elusive grade points. Right: Russian is one of the most interesting languages offered in the Modern Languages Department and is fast becoming one of the most popular languages on campus. Here Dr. Skrivanek is explaining the fun¬ damentals of this fascinating language to one of his first-year Russian classes. r •

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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Both broad and specialized programs in the engineering sciences are offered through the sev¬ eral curricula of the School of Engineering. These programs are designed to develop the student ' s abilities to enable him to enter into and advance with the profession of engineering, and to lead a useful and happy life in his community. These curriculum plans include as their main core the fundamentals of engineering science and • the basic materials related thereto, but in addition they include subjects from the social and hu¬ manistic sciences. Thus, not only will the A AA engineering graduate be technically trained, but also humanly and socially educated. In order to qualify for a Bachelor of Science degree in the student ' s chosen field, he must complete satisfactorily a minimum of four years of comprehensive study in mathematics and sci¬ ences. In addition to theory, practice work and problem courses are provided in order to better acquaint the student with application of his knowledge. Texas A AA does not turn out men trained solely in mechanical manipulative skills. With the exception of industrial education, all curricula are planned to provicTe preparation for research, design, operation, management, testing, or maintenance of engineering projects. Various four-year curricula are available and each leads to the Bachelor of Science degree. They include the fields of aerospace, chemical, civil, electrical, geological, mechanical, nuclear, and pe¬ troleum engineering. Also included are those of geology, geophysics, industrial education and in¬ dustrial engineering. Those which involve five-year curricula are architecture and petroleum en¬ gineering, also various combined degrees. Within all its areas, the Texas A AA School of Engineer¬ ing will continue to lead in the new era of technology that is our nation ' s destiny. Students are trying to find the amount of radiation given off by a piece of metal for a lab problem in Nuclear Engineering. Another one of the departments in engineering which will be fast growing in the near future.