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

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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

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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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COLLEGE OF LAW a- —— 1 Under the exacting and capable leadership of Dean Marshall McKusick, the University Col- lege of Law has come to be recognized one of the finest in the country. A small school, with a tend- ency toward development of the individual, rather than the group, University barristers leave school as full-fledged attorneys at law, take their place with the many University grads who have already set up practice in South Dakota. The school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, is approved by the American Bar Association. Extensive law library houses 16,000 volumes. Students are admitted to the school on completion of three years pre-Iegal work, primarily business administration. Due to the accelerated war program, this may be shortened to two years pre-legal work before entrance, as it was prior to 1940. Most interesting work in the law school is the moot court sessions, where budding barristers try their hands at cases under simulated court conditions. Hardest course in school is generally conceded to be Bills and Notes, most respected instructor is white-haired, pompous Dean Mc- Kusick. Fourteen H