University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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Department of English THE Depurimeni' of Enghsh of the Univer- sity of Delaware offers instruction in English to the students of the college for men and the college for women. The staff numbers nine two professors, one asscciate professor, two assistant professors, three instructors, one assistant, OFf these officers, two are part- time teachers. Instruction is being given in the first term of 1932-1933 to 651 students. Two courses are required of all students Freshman Composition and Sophomore Liter- ature. Most of the other courses offered by the Department are elactive. The aim of the Depariment is two-fold: 1 to help the students of the two colleges to write with greater accuracy, clearness, and ease; and 2 to extend the knowledge which the students already have of the great books, the main authors, and the significant movements in English literature. Through such a study of great books and through practice in the expression in words of ideas about books and life, students Oughl to become more worthy and more efficient citizens, WILBUR OWEN SYPHERD, Ph.D. Professar of English Department of History and Political Science THE staff of the Pepartment of History and Political Science has been 5Irengihanag this year by the return of two men, who during the past two years have been doing graduate work for the Ph.D. degree, namely Francis H. Squire at Yale, and H. Clay Reed at Princeton. The former, promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of History, will offer next year a new elective course entitled Tuder and Stuart England, and the latter, promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor of Histary, is offering this year a new elective course enfitled Economic History of Maodern Europe. S'ysmma?ic graduate wark is being carried on this year by the head of the department for the first time. This work has been prompted by the need among students, who major in history in their undergraduate career, for GEORGE HERBERT RYDEN, Ph.D. more training in research than can be secured Professar of History and Political Sciance in underqraduafg courses, and it is to be hoped that a modest baginning will justify a continuation of the policy. e

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GEORGE E. DUTTON, AM. Dean and Registrar SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE THE Arts and Scienca School recognizes as its specific aims the following: 1 ta give instruction in those subjects which are fundamental in any liberal education; 2 to dis- cover and stimulate the special aptitudes and interests of students: 3 to lay the foundation for later professional specialization; and 4 to give the technical instruction necessary in preparation for cerfain cccupational careers. To this end, the School offers instruction, through suggested curricula, in the fields of I Literature, 2 History and Social Sciences, 3 Philosophy, Psycholegy, and Education, and 4 Mathematics and Science. Other aims and purposes of the Arts and Science School are more general. This School s interested only in the serious studentthe young man who has a serious purpose in coming to college and is willing fo pay the price of an education in hard work and decent conduct. It endeavors to acquaint the student with the best that has been thought and said and done in the world, and thereby better equip him to take his place as a useful and happy member of saciety. Finally, by placing before the student problems that require for their solution the orderly exercise of his mental processes, it seeks to train him fo think logically and independently and fo act with intelligence and effectiveness, To fit earnest students to sarn a better living and fo lead a better life, fo give them a real sense of responsibility, to train them to think for themselves, to make of them more useful and happier citizensthese are the aims and purposes of the Arts and Science School of Delaware College of the University of Delaware, 27 el e, S T e T e T T T T R T ey - R L el e T S ey, R e U TN T S A A e W e T e m e ST R P SR A T N e ey T Y T e 1 Ea e o S T e P T ek e W T S AN ST R T, WRr P Tl e e o Vi S G T D T TR e e v FPEA . i

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Department of Philosephy, Psycholegy, and Seociclogy AS the name of this Department indicates it covers a very broad field indead. Philoso- phy is the oldest of the teaching disciplines, and Psychology and SGCIG'OQY are twa of the youngest. Philosophy, the mother of seiences, still retains under her wing such broad fields as Ethics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Assthetics, Psychology undertakes to reveal the nature of man, and Sociclogy discusses the social form which man has invented for the living of his life. It is obvious that under the present organiza- tien of the Department, with two teachers, it is possible 1o offer only intraductory courses in these great fields of li'lurnan interest, One object of thess courses is to give to the stu- dent, who is interested in acquiring a broadly cultured cutlook on life, an acquaintance with the thought of the great minjs of our race, past and present. This is Philnscphr. And certainly readers of modern books will under- stand little without the aid of modern Psychel- EZRA B. CROOKS, Ph.D. Frofessar of Philosophy and Sociclogy ogy. That is a queer college graduate who is not deeply interssted in the pressing social problems of his own day. Sociclagy undertakes to be of aid here. Department of Economics IT is the aim of the Department of Economics to serve two types ofsi'udanfs.. For those whose major interest lies in other depart- ments it provides a general course, the purpose of which is to prepare them to cope intelligently and constructively with the numerous complex problems of our economic life. However, for those students who defi- nitely intend to enter some phase of business, or who plan to work for an advanced degres in economics, it offers a number of mare specialized courses in addition te the above. During the past semester a new course, The Application of Statistics to Economics, has been added. It is designed as a general course in elementary principles of statistics as applied to the interpretation of sconomic problems. It is the intent of this department to meet, as adequately as its limited facilities will per- mit, the neer of the students majoring in it. JOSEPH SIDNEY GOULD, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Economics 29 o lA T