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

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DEPARTMENT OF HOME ECONOMICS Horae Economics not only strives to make an ideal home but also to pre- pare girls for a fuller and richer life by teaching them the fundamental princi- ples and broadening their horizons. They learn to be community minded, and the spirit helps them to serve to the best of their ability, to lead where lead- ership is needed, and follow where fel- lowship is essential. Families are aided in living within their income and in making ideal homes by directly teaching their members through the schools and by indirectly giving the parents profes- sional instruction. The unappreciated subjects of poetry, art, and music are brought into the everyday life of the American family. Besides meeting the needs of the present active generation, Home Economics prepares for tomor- row by making possible adequate train- ing of good citizens to carry on. The objectives in Home Economics teacher training at Iowa State Teachers College are as follows: 1. To develop interest and skill in a chosen field of study and to have a command of the subject matter. 2. To develop character, maturity of thinking, and ability that will inspire the pupils with whom the prospective teacher may come in contact to think constructively and to make a more unified and practical application of knowl- edge to everyday living. 3. To establish standards for information, skill, management, practices, ap- preciations and ideals needed at various physical and mental levels. 4. To provide enough laboratory work to assist the student to verify and recognize the principles presented. 5. To encourage constructive-mindness. initiative, creative ability, leader- ship, and ability to follow good leadership. 6. To develop personality as well as character as a desirable asset in teacher training for ultimate high rating in the field of education. Anna Lee Leggett 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

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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC The Department of Music at Iowa State Teachers College for a long se- ries of years has had three distinct aims. One of these aims is to do all that can be done in the way of developing skill, musical taste and appreciation in the mass of the students, so that there will be a good musical atmosphere in the institution. The second aim is to furnish the op- portunity for students especially inter- ested in music to reach the highest de- gree of musicianship that is attainable for them, both as individual performers in music and as members of various musical organizations. The third aim, which we believe should be a distinctive characteristic of the music department in a teachers col- lege, is to make a constant and persist- ent effort to give to music education the benefit of the best educational procedure of the time. It is not enough, in the estimation of the Music Department, merely to conform to the latest methods for teaching music. It is believed that experimentation and research work should be constantly carried on with the actual schools and the college classes serving as laboratories. The Department of Music aims to do its share in elim- inating false notions in teaching school music. A four-year curriculum is offered here in music education, leading to the B. A. Degree with a major in music. Enough general college work is included to make a reasonably well-balanced curriculum and to equip prospective teach- ers for teaching some other high school subjects as well as music. Interest in music education is increasing rapidly. In fact, music education is coming to be the principal goal for talented musicians. With the increasing amount of leisure in American life, wholesome recreation is assuming decided importance. Mere amusement or entertainment may prove to be a liability to society. Good music, successfully re-created and keenly appreciated, will al- ways be on the side of worthy living and opposite to what is cheap and tawdry. No people can ever be better than their ideals, and beautiful music is always conducive to the development of fine ideals.