University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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BLANOHE E. BIGGS. M. I U Ph. H. A. M, L2G| EFEIE H. ABBOTT. B. Ed.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH EIGHT secondary and twenty-two collegiate courses are offered by the English Department. Their teaching is in the hands of four full-tinie teachers and one part-time teacher. Each teacher has made a special study of the content and presentation of the courses which fall to her. The entire English course is in a constant state of reorganization, looking toward a more perfect adjustment to meet Nebraska's present and future needs. For example, courses in Journalism, Stage Craft (English XX), Public Speaking, Rural School Literature. Pageantry, and Business English have recently been added. Graduate students will find much to interest them in the new courses in Advanced Composition and Familiar Essay to be offered in 1918. Increased emphasis is now falling on the speaking voice, oral composition, letter writing and dictation, dramatic composition, and rural school problems in English. All this is being done without interference with the already effective teaching of the appreciation of literature, written composition, and dramatic ex- pression. Plans are being worked out whereby all English courses can better teach students how to study how to gather, classify and evaluate general information, how to solve problems arising from professional emergencies, and how to begin scholarly investigations. It is planned to give adequate treatment and special stimulus to the exceptional student. The student, rather than the facts taught, is the center of instruction. And finally, the value of the teaching in this department lies not so much in the information put into the mind as in the interests awakened and the capacity developed for further education. [25]

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EMMA E HANTHOHN. A. 13, MATHEMATICS T,HE value to anyone of a thoro course in Mathematics is beyond question, it is therefore especially valuable to teachers, who go forth as leaders and directors of the young. No subject, except the use of the mother Longue, so intimately connected with the affairs of everyday life and so necessary to the successful conduct of everyday affairs as Mathematics. Thoroneas in arithmetic is essential and this matter has been carefully con- sidered in planning our courses. Accuracy, rapidity, and neatness are the watch- words. Our courses in higher mathematics are planned to strengthen the teacher's ability in ihe lower work, to broaden the view, and to serve various practical and cultural purposes. To this end are offered various courses in Arithmetic, Algebra. Geometry. Trigonometry, Analytics, Calculus and Methods. Throughout all the work emphasis is placed on careful, thoughtful reading, thus understanding directions given; the picking out of essentials; properly repre- senting what is given or set forth: arranging these essential features in clear, neat, logical order and drawing proper conclusions therefrom. By proper comparisons students are led lo see how this kind of training is applied in other studies and to the various affairs or problems of one’s life. Not only the mastery of subject matter and its applications are emphasized but also the various methods of presenting these matters. Special attention is given to this side of the work in the Methods Class. Enroll with us and we assure von full value in return for all the energy you in vest.