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

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FINE ARTS ' mi Under the guidance of Dean Colton, the College of Fine Arts has steadily grown, boasts of the numher of its graduates employed in colleges and universities, with emphasis on music. Work of the school falls into three divisions, painting and drawing, music, dramatic art. First division students major in painting or public school art, with work directed largely to lab, including lettering, sketching, painting, life drawing, design. A faculty of eight teaches course work in music, directs choir, orchestra, University band. Fine Arts students give weekly recitals, present annual program of their original compositions. One full-time instructor teaches work in dramatic art and acts as director of dramatics. Courses include history and principles, stage design, lighting, makeup, play production. The de- partment presented five full-length plays this year, numerous one-act plays. A large numher of University students take part in these plays, exclusive of dramatics students, either in stage work or acting. i DEAN W. R. COLTON n i Twelve

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Shown above are some of the lab workers, majoring in various fields of the Arts and Sciences department-from home economics to chemistry, physics, applied science, and biochemistry. Many students earn part of their way through college, serving as lab assistants in the basic courses offered in this department— gain much valuable experience in these fields. Eleven

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EDUCATION DIRECTOR WM. H. BATSON To majors in the Held of education, various programs are offered, three kinds of certificates granted by the state Department of Public Instruction on University credentials — high school general certificate, State general certificate, high school special certificate. Students majoring in education receive B.S. in education at completion of four years ' work. The School is organized under Director Win. H. Batson, who also serves as director of the summer session, which in recent years has averaged over half a hundred candidates per summer for masters ' degrees. Increasingly important part of the School is the Bureau of Teachers ' Appoint- ments, boasting of a placement record of University grads near the ioo ' , mark. Practical work is given in this field, along with theoretical courses, every school in Vermillion finds a U student practice teaching under the trained supervision of U instructors, many going out to teach in elementan schools after having taken two years of the required education courses, return at summer schools to finish work on their bachelors ' degrees. Thirteen