Texas A and M University - El Rancho Yearbook (Kingsville, TX)

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I 92 £ EL RANCH Education The aim of the Department of Education is to help make better teach- ers, principals, and superintendents. Some courses are given that are basic to all. Many other courses are highly specialized. An attempt is made to give enough general work so that every student will get a thor- ough foundation in the field, and enough specialized work so that he may become a specialist in some one branch. The student will find courses in the theory and history of education in which clear analysis and straight thinking are of chief concern. He will also find courses that teach defi- nite skills. These skills vary from the planning of a single lesson to the making of a curriculum or the management of a school system. The courses in education and the student teaching work proceed sim- ultaneously in such a way as to enable the student to do better teaching in consequence of his classroom work in the college, and also to enable him to gain through his teaching a basis in experience for fuller appreciation of his professional and academic courses. In order to make the courses in education meet the requirements of various forms of public school service, specialized courses are offered for prospective teachers in the primary, intermediate, and upper grades, as well as the junior and senior high schools. Top Row—Drewry, Sawyer, Brown, Gregory. Bottom Row—Baugh, May, Bailey, Cousins,

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S' 7h e 1928 EL RANCHO Administration R. B. Cousins Lila Baugh L. F. Connell R. E. May Ann L. Kirven Leona Hoop President Dean of Women Registrar Business Manager Librarian Secretary to the President The officers of administration have only one purpose in view, and that is, to promote at all times the highest interests of the students and of the institution. The officers recognize but one method of doing this, namely, through SERVICE. May Hoop Kirven Connell

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1928 EL RANCHO English The Department of English offers courses in grammar, composition, journalism, literature, and materials and methods. The freshman work stresses fundamentals of correct writing and speaking, with extensive reading in a variety of literary forms. The journalism gives a practical knowledge of newspaper work, with experience in writing for publication. In literature are offered a survey of English and American literature, early, EJizibethan, and recent drama, romantic, Victorian, and recent poetry, nineteenth-century and recent prose, mythology, the short story, the novel, and such individual authors as Shakespeare, Browning and Tennyson. To provide materials and methods for teachers in the public schools, well- graded courses in children’s literature and in the teaching of English are offered. When the demand is sufficient, historical English, including Anglo-Saxon, Chaucer, and history of the English language, will be sched- uled.