University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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THE COLLEGES OKAS WEST The College of Liberal Arts THl£ college of Liberal Arts in the University of Miami, as in practically all American universities forms the heart of the institution. A student begins his work on the higher education level in the college of Arts and there reaches sooner or later his life career decision. In the college of Liberal Arts, courses are offered leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. These courses are arranged in orderly and interesting sequences from general, introductory, or survey courses on to advanced and specialized lines of study and research. AM the common departments of collegiate work appear in the program, including English composition and literature, dramatics, public speaking and debate, journalism, modern languages, and literatures, the natural sciences, mathematics, history and the social sciences, psychology, education. art. and philosophy. Two year curricula can be arranged leadmg to transfer in law. engineering, or medicine. The department of Science has much to offer the technical student and the interested layman who doesn't wish to major in this field. Work done in marine zoology is unique. Courses like tropical forestry are not only useful but in the study of Florida science a keener understanding of its problems ensues. The dramatics department is a laboratory for embryo actors where they receive instruction in every phase of the theatre and also experience in each of these phases. The art department rounds out a broad cultural background available to the student along with the practical and theoretical experience be gets. For a long time tlx1 trend has been toward the organization of a school of Journalism. Now we are nearer that goal than ever before with the broadening of the subjects offered and the securing of a teacher for that purpose. The great loss of the school in the death of Dr. Orton Lowe, head of the English department, is incalcuable. He will live on in the memory of the student body through the Orton Lowe Library to be established in tlx University library. His private library numbers over a thousand volumes. The Winter Institute of Literature coming annually brought to the University many outstanding men this year. Among the speakers were Paul Green. Virgil Barker. Dumas Malone. Dr. Luis Baralt. Paul Engle. Hervey Allen. In the School of Education of the University of Miami are enrolled those students, preparing themselves to be teachers, who wish to secure the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education or the two-year normal graduation certificate known in Florida as the L.I. Diploma. The preparation can be had for

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To the Class of 1938: At graduation time you may feel that your education has been too general: that it might better have been more specific and directly pointed toward your life work. But we do not yet know what that life work is to be. Many of you will experiment with several things before you settle down to your permanent vocation. It is our hope that the general training you have received in the University will help you to approach your career with poise and confidence, secure in the knowledge that you can train yourself in the special skills that you will need. Our best wishes for a happy and successful life go with you. B. F. ASHE, President

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teaching in any type of school. Very definite professional training is given through courses in education, psychology, and sociology, including child study, elementary school teaching, adolescence. secondary education, high school teaching, special methods, and principles of philosophy of education. And through certain required and elective courses chosen from the Liberal Arts program, the students obtain their advanced command of the subjects to be taught in the schools. Every year since the opening of the University of Miami in 1926. the work of the School of Education has been given official recognition by the Florida State Department of Education, so that graduates with a University degree or normal certificate have received, without the requirement of passing state teachers' examinations, the Florida Graduate State Teacher's Certificates. The work in this school is carried on by Dean Henry S. West who is directly in charge of the Education school work. The progress in the school is steadily forward to expansion and the offering of a wider cultural background and the ultimate formation of a graduate school. The growth of the School of Business Administration has been marked each year by the increase of courses available and the enrollment of students. In 1926 under the guidance of Dean John Thom Holdsworth the school was first organized offering only a few basic courses in Economics and Government which were taught by tlx Dean. Dr. Holdsworth came to the University with an experience that particularly fitted him for formulating a curriculum which would expand and contract as the needs of a growing student body and changes in times came about. He had been on faculties of some of the oldest universities in the North such as Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, and Princeton, had been associated with banking institutions in the country, and is the author of several standard texts and reference books on Economics, particularly banking. The year 1937-38 saw the printing of the “Sixth Edition-' of Dr. Holds-worth's Money and Banking, a standard text here and at other universities. This fact is only a standard by which the value of the work done can be measured. Through the years increased courses DEAN HOLDSWORTH School of Business Administration have been offered. Specialization in every branch of economic and business administration has thus been made possible. The course of study has been so adjusted that it is composed of lecture, discussion, and practical experience through speakers who are outstanding men in their fields. The result has been that students graduating have found organizations looking forward to their