University of South Florida - Aegean Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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Women's Study Program , ew non-degree undergraduate program was initiated last i USF. Its subiect was women. 7 of approximately 36 established nationwide Women's Programs, it is designed to extend knowledge about an courses dealing with historical, sociological and psycho- aspects of woman's role and the female experience were as electives to USF students this year. uanita Williams, program director, believes the issue, m V en as well as with blocks, involves the development of ' ytential, and the academic community must help these 7 ich are becoming aware of their identity and need to past, present and future. and quarter, a two-day symposium, New Direc- i en, was held at USF and the Bay Campus far tures and discussions dealt with women: matried and working, single and working, with childre bands, alone; the liberated woman,- and ende identity inventory. Dr. Williams said there's so much heat and concerning women's liberation, that many indi tive ideas as to what it is about. She defined . en's liberation as equal pay, opportunities advancement, fteedom of choice concerning freedom from sex role stereotypes. She calle tion, adding that when we see the day w liberated, then men M be liberated too. USF hosted its first Women's Week black attorney Flarynce Kennedy, a worn career night, a debate on the Equ Women in Arts program, and a pa

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Off-Compus Term iOCTi Bring relevance to the college campus! is, and always has been a com- mon cry of interested students. USF's unique Off-Compus Term iOCTi Program is attempting to do so with its unusual approach to education. Students who are sick and tired of the same old routine of going to classes, seeing professors, and doing homework every day can now turn to OCT tor a break. And the world, at least a great part of the world, is open to students with plans, or desires, or questions. Israel, Brazil, California, Frostproof, Flo., Ybor City . . . all provide the same opportunity tor students to get away from the sometimes confining University walls and see what the real world is like. The discovery that the real world of Brazil can be as similar as the Hreal world at Tampa in many respects, as well as different in many others, might be enlightening to many day-dreamers. All students are eligible to ioin the program which offers between 1-18 hours credit per quarter. The only restriction to the program is that the experience, in some way, be of an educational nature. Programs are bus- ically studenteoriented and student-designed with the help of an OCT Pro- gram Adviser. The opportunities available to students fall into four major categories: Social Action Projects: An option enabling students to participate as volunteers in a social or community activity, much like VISTA volun- teers, where agencies pay living expenses during the term in exchange for tuIl-time commitment. Independent Study: Special investigation in a student's maior field of study or field of interest with the freedom and flexibility not available in a quarter of scheduled classes; International Programs: A grand opportunity to acquire credit iust by living, traveling or studying abroad. A special environmental studies pro- iect is conducted twice annually in Jamaica during quarter breaks. Special Proiects: Really special projects which are individually designed relevant to a student's own educational goals. These have run the gamut from living in communes in Canada, to participating in street evangelism in St. Louis, to studying youth subcultures in Boston, to experiencing what Russia is like by living in a Russian convent in New York. In addition, OCT coordinates the National Student Exchange Program , through which students can become better acquainted with different social and educational patterns in other areas of the United States by attending one of 20 state universities from Maine to Hawaii, with all credits trans- : ferring back. in OCT . . . l the world is our campus ' reality is our obiective ' experience is our teacher OCT is for those students who t'don't let schooling interfere with their education. Cooperative Education iCo-opi A major change in the Cooperative Education Program at USF this year was its consolidation with the Placement Center in an effort to alleviate expansion needs and better serve USF students. Simultaneous relocation of services to the Andros Classroom Building came with the consolida- tion. Adding realistic subsistence to the aphorism, Experi- ence is the best teacher, the Co-op program, open to majors in all disciplines, allows a student to relate his aca- demic learning to practical experience through participat- ing in alternate quarters of employment and study in his major field. The advantages of the program to students are endless: through alternating patterns of combining work-training experience with the theory of the classroom, the student finds greater meaning in his studies; motivation is increased by close coordination of training assignments and study; most students accrue more than a year of professional experience when they receive their degrees, thereby allow- ing them to command a better salary at graduation; stu- dents earn partial, and in some cases, total funds to sup- port their education; and perhaps most importantly, the training experience contributes to a greater sense of responsibility, maturity and confidence in their own judge- ments. The Co-op personnel invite all students interested in bet- tering themselves professionally and increasing their poten- tial as a productive work-force, to ioin Co-op and reap its benefits.

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