University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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DEPARTMENT OF ART AND MANUAL ARTS Two major lines are represented in the Department of Art and Manual Arts. Students who major in art are as- sumed to be preparing to serve as teachers or supervisors of art in the public schools of the state. To provide the special training needed by such stu- dents a variety of courses are offered in drawing, design, craft work, interior decoration. commercial illustration, methods of teaching art in the schools and other subjects. This Department also gives the courses in art which have been set up for the preparation of kindergarten, pri- mary, elementary grade, rural school and home economics teachers. Students who major in manual arts are preparing to become teachers and supervisors of manual arts in the schools. For their special preparation, courses are offered in woodworking, drafting, sheet metal work, home mechanics, industrial arts design, w’ood finish- ing, wood turning, methods of teaching manual arts, organization of manual arts and other subjects. Students who major in other lines may elect courses in either art or manual arts and thus broaden their contacts with school activities and gain information and experience helpful in supervisory positions. Two entire floors in the building, known as the Vocational Building, are de- voted to the work of this Department. Six rooms are equipped and used for instruction in the art subjects. There is also a fine exhibit room in which art exhibitions are held for the education of students. Six rooms are devoted to the work of manual arts. Among these are a class and demonstration room, woodworking and metal working shops, drafting room, and woodfinishing room. Upwards of six hundred students are enrolled each term in classes of this Department. C. A. Bailey Head

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DEPARMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES The Department of Romance Lan- guages was created by the State Board of Education in the early part of 1918, and began its work with three teachers in the fall of the same year. At the present time five teachers are on the staff. The Department has two major lines, French and Spanish, and offers courses in grammar, conversation, and literature. It is the aim of the Depart- ment to furnish a thorough knowledge of the grammar of the language studied, practice in conversation, and advanced courses in which the literature of France. Spain, and Spanish America is studied. It is also the aim of the D£ partment to prepare teachers of French and Spanish for high schools, to enable students to satisfy the requirements for the degrees beyond the B. A. and to create a spirit of larger understanding, sympathy, and tolerance, by introducing students to another language, people, and literature. The Department carries on correspondence work and conducts Extension Credit classes in French and Spanish. The teachers in the Department have done graduate work in the United States and abroad, having studied in French or Spanish-speaking countries. The Department is especially well equipped with educational material such as maps, pictures, and post-cards of France. Spain, and South America. The departmental library numbers about three thousand volumes, and receives the leading magazines of France and Spain. In fact, the library for French and Spanish is one of the most complete in the middle west. Ikgebrigt Lillehei Head

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY The Department of Physics and Chemistry offers four different lines of work. In the first place it tries to lay the foundations of a good general train- ing in the subjects of Physics and Chemistry. It offers sufficient courses in these subjects so that the successful student, in case he does not care to teach, will be abundantly equipped to pursue these studies on a graduate basis in a University. While this is true, the Department always keeps in view what constitutes the best training for a teach- er in a high school. Second, the Department offers a number of courses, like that of Every Day Physical Science, which are of di- rect vocational value to the teacher in the elementary school. Third, the Department supplies the basic training in chemistry for the stu- dents pursuing the Home Economics curriculum. Fourth, the Department is at present offering two courses in applied peda- gogy; one in Physics and the other in Chemistry. These courses can be substi- tuted as educational credits when Physics or Chemistry is the major line of the student. The facilities for physics instruction are abundant. There are three recita- tion rooms, and one whole floor of the Science Building is devoted to laboratory instruction in the various lines of the subject. The shop is equipped with lathes, a drill press, and all the necessary tools for repair of apparatus. The top floor of the Science Building is devoted to Chemistry. The Chem- istry equipment is very complete. Each desk is provided with electricity, water, compressed air. and gas. Specialized apparatus includes the polariscope. calor- imeter, refractmeter, microscope, electric muffle, electric oven, and also appar- atus for analyzing foods, water, gas, coal, minerals, and commercial materials. Supplies and equipment for Physics are valued at approximately ten thousand dollars. Louis Begeman Head