University of South Dakota - Coyote Yearbook (Vermillion, SD)

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Outstanding South Dakota historian, H. S. Schell is leader of State University graduate stu- dents. A stiekler for accuracy, whether theses be on science or art, he gives his careful consid- eration and attention to each. Serious-minded graduate students come to the U, the only educational institution in the state to have a graduate school, to obtain their mas- ters' degrees. Two types of graduate work are offered i11 27 fields: intensive study in teaching specialties to meet the needs of the educational system of the state fob' teachers trained beyond undergraduate courses, and general training solely for adlninistrative work. Graduate School Most graduate students come to the U for the summer session and go back to other jobs throughout the state in the winter, conduct or- iginal investigation and research on special problems in their individual fields, do most of their worrying about a comprehensive thesis, which is required for all graduate degrees, oc- casionally contribute valuably toward enlarging the knowledge of the field in which they are interested.

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School of Business Administration 21' - C1 M - sift fir? About 100 U juniors and seniors enroll each year in the school of Business Administration. Up to now, bizad majors have considered their Work easy, their courses interesting, and the faculty well-qualified. Plans are now being com- pleted for an entire re-organization of the school to go into effect next year. The school has been organized as a separate unit in order that it might give guidance, coun- seling, and more intensive vocational training in the skills that make men employable. In addi- tion to this, courses of a general nature are of- fered which make it possible for a. student to secure as well-rounded college education. In order E. S. Sparks is the guiding hand in the large and growing School of Business Administration. Easy-going, genial, progressive, and New Deal hating, with the help of his good dog Gyp, gives his economic problems a practical interpretation in his classroom Work. that a student may prepare himself for a par- ticular phase of business, the following courses are arranged to meet specific needs: secretarial science, industrial management, high school and special certiiicate course, general business admin- istration, marketing, and finance. The Universityis bizad school has a faculty of six full-time teachers and four part-time teach- ers who are intensely interested in this form of professional and vocational training. The sev- eral hundred students who have left this school and are now employed in business testify to the usefulness of this training to them in their vari- ous business fields.

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Extension Division il! iii I- Uv, ' Operating at full capacity, the Extension Divi- sion is hourly active sending correspondence courses, visual aids, plays, debate material, and projects in Adult Education through the mail. To any student who has a high school diploma, the U offers 197 correspondence courses and al- lows 30 semester hours of credit toward an A. B. degree or its equivalent, provided that only six hours may be taken during the senior year. At present students from nine states are enjoying this privilege. All correspondence courses are set up and all lessons are corrected by members of the regular U staff, allowing the student one year in which to finish his Work. U students who work in the extension office file 2500 plays that are sent out to schools and Youngest head of the youngest State Univer- sity department, A. E. Mead is the quick, self- rcliant, confident, driving force behind the Ex- tension Division. interested adults for a period of 10 days, and films and motion picture projectors. An added service of the Extension Division is the sponsor- ing of the program of elementary work through correspondence for both handicapped children and handicapped schools. The service renders work of every type needed to meet the demands of the average individual, special emphasis being placed upon vocational subjects, Schools may now offer a Well-rounded program through which the pupil may secure a degree of training in a vocation that will help him prepare for an occu- pation in his own community. Over 90 per cent of the high schools in South Dakota have re- sponded to this offer. 1 -:ht