Programs of Study
There were 18 academic departments that were divided into four groups of study, from which juniors and seniors choose their major and minor. This allowed students to choose a broad area of study and then narrow it to a more specific topic.
Group 1: English,
French,
German,
Greek,
Latin,
Spanish.
Group 2: Economics,
History,
Political
Science,
Sociology.
Group 3: Bible,
Education,
Philosophy,
Psychology.
Group 4: Biology,
Chemistry,
Mathematics,
Physics.
Any courses
numbered above twenty counted towards a student's major or minor.
Majors and minors could be taken from the same group, but not the same
department. Once a major was decided a faculty member was selected
by the student with the advise of the dean to serve as an adviser for work
in upper divisions.
Electives
were chosen in April with consent of the dean. These class deans
acted as advisers to the students. The deans during the 1933-1934
academic year were: Montgomery
Porter Sellers (dean of college), Ernest
Albert Vuilleumier (acting dean of college because Sellers was abroad
during the year), Lewis
Guy Rohrbaugh (acting dean of freshman class), William
Weidman Landis (dean of sophomore class), Wilbur
Harrington Norcross (dean of junior class), and Cornelius
William Prettyman (dean of senior class). The main problem with
this arrangement was that there were too many students for each dean which
made it hard to attend to all the students' needs. Deans also did
not have any clerical assistance and were forced to make things such as
grade reports and averages unassisted.
Adjustments
to student's schedules were allowed before the semester began, however,
once the semester commenced, changes could be made only with the consent
of the faculty. Additional electives were allowed as long as they
didn't interfere with regular work. Also, if a student had failed
a course the previous semester the student was required to take the course
again and the previously failed course took priority over all other work.
The number next to the course indicates its level and when it is taught. Courses with odd numbers are taught during the first semester while those with even numbers are taught during the second semester. Courses numbered between 1-9 are intended for freshmen, while courses numbered between 10-19 are intended for sophomores. Those numbered above 20 are acceptable towards majors and minors and are usually taken by juniors and seniors. A hyphen between two numbers indicates that the course was taught throughout the entire year, while a comma indicates that a course was taught during two separate semesters. A "L" next to a course's number delineates it as a laboratory course.
Art, History of
Professor William Weidman Landis
31-32. Studies the development of architecture
and painting from the time of Giotto to 1934
Associate Professor Chester Warren Quimby
21 The Life of Christ
22 The Pentateuch
27 The Life of Paul
28 The Social Teaching of Jesus
41 The Hebrew Prophets
60 The Transmission of the Bible
Professor
Milton Walker Eddy
Mr.
Elmer Charles Herber
21-22 General Biology
21-22 Botany
23-24 General Zoology
23-24L Zoology
34 Bacteriology
41-42 Histology and Histological Technique
51 Genetics
54 Systematic Botany
81-82 Special Problems
Professor
Ernest Albert Vuilleumier
Associate
Professor Horace Elton Rogers
11-12 General Inorganic Chemistry
11-12L General Inorganic Chemistry
25-26 Qualitative Analysis and Elementary Physical
Chemistry
25-26L Qualitative Analysis
51-52 Organic Chemistry
51-52L Organic Chemistry
61-62 Courses in Quantitative Analysis in Several
Branches
81-82 Physical Chemistry
Professor
Clarence Johnson Carver
Russell
Irvin Thompson
30 or 31 Principles of Education (Carver, Thompson)
32 or 33 Methods of Education (Carver)
34 or 35 History of Education (Thompson)
41 Educational Psychology (Thompson)
42 Educational Measurements (Thompson)
81 or 82 Supervised Practice Teaching (Carver)
83 or 84 Educational and Vocational Guidance
(Carver)
Professor
Montgomery Porter Sellers
Professor
Paul Herbert Doney
Associate
Professor Josephine Brunyate Meredith
Associate
Professor George Robert Stephens
Mr.
Ralph Schecter
1-2 Rhetoric and Composition (Schecter, Sellers)
3-4 Survey of English Literature (Meredith)
5-6 Elementary Literary Criticism (Doney)
11-12 The Appreciation of Literature (Doney,
Stephens)
25,26 Composition (Stephens)
56 Emerson and the Concord Circle (Doney)
66 The Fundamentals of Language Structure (Meredith)
81-82 Advanced Composition (Doney, Stephens)
91-92 Literary Criticism (Doney)
German Language and Literature
Professor
Cornelius William Prettyman
Associate
Professor C.R. Walther Thomas
Associate
Professor Albert Horwell Gerberich
1-2 Elementary Course (Prettyman, Thomas, Gerberich)
11-12 Intermediate Course (Prettyman, Thomas,
Gerberich)
33-34 Cultural History of the German and Scandinavian
Peoples (Thomas)
31-32 Scientific German (Thomas)
35 German Poetry (Thomas)
41-42 Conversation and Composition (Prettyman)
51 History of Literature from Ulifilas to Klopstock
(Prettyman, Thomas)
52 Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe (Prettyman,
Thomas)
61 The Romantic Movement in Germany (Gerberich)
62 The Nineteenth Century (Gerberich)
80 The Modern Drama (Prettyman)
81-82 Advanced Conversation and Composition (Prettyman)
Professor
Herbert Wing, Jr.
Professor
Forrest Eugene Craver
1-2 First Year Greek (Craver)
23-24 Second Year Greek (Wing)
31-32 Greek Literature Survey (Wing)
81,82 Special Authors (Wing)
Professor
Leon Cushing Prince
Professor
Herbert Wing, Jr.
Associate
Professor Mulford Stough
Mr.
Robert Levere Brunhouse
1-2 Ancient History, General Introduction (Wing)
3-4 Medieval History, General Introduction (Wing)
27 American History, 1750-1829 (Stough)
28 American History, 1829-1877 (Stough)
31-32 Civilization in Europe (Prince)
43 American Colonial History, 1492-1750 (Brunhouse)
44 European History (Brunhouse)
52 American History (Prince)
53 Hellenistic History (Wing)
Professor Arthur Vaughan Bishop
5-6 Intermediate Latin
11-12 Roman Historians
21-22 Survey of Latin Literature
33-34 Prose Composition
41 Virgil
42 Roman Satire
43 Elegiac Poetry
44 Tacitus and Pliny
Professor
William Weidman Landis
Professor
Forrest Eugene Craver
Mr.
Frank Ayres, Jr.
1 or 2 Algebra
4 Plane Trigonometry
6 Spherical Trigonometry
8 The Mathematical Theory of Investment (Craver,
Ayres)
31-32 Analytic Geometry (Landis)
33 Calculus
34 Differential Equations
51-52 Projective Geometry
61-62 Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions
70 History and Teaching of Mathematics (Landis)
Music
History and Appreciation of Music
21 or 22 Introduction to Philosophy
25 History of Religion
26 History of Christianity
41 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
42 Modern Philosophy
Associate Professor Wellington Parlin
11-12 Elements of Physics
31-32 Electricity
31-32L Electric Measurements
Professor
Wilbur Harrington Norcross
Associate
Professor Russell Irvin Thompson
21 or 22 Brief Introduction to General Psychology
31-32 Psychological Laboratory
61-62 Systematic Psychology
Romance Languages and Literature
Professor
Francis A. Waterhouse
Associate
Professor John C. M. Grimm
Associate
Professor Mary Buckley Taintor
Associate
Professor Albert Horwell Gerberich
French
1-2 Elementary French (Grimm, Taintor)
11-12 Intermediate French (Waterhouse, Grimm,
Taintor)
13-14 Intermediate French (Waterhouse, Grimm,
Taintor)
31-32 Advanced French (Waterhouse, Grimm, Tainotr)
41-42 Advanced French Composition (Waterhouse)
51-52 French Literature of the Eighteenth Century
(Waterhouse)
63-64 French Literature of the Seventeenth Century
(Grimm)
Spanish
11-12 Elementary Spanish (Gerberich, Grimm)
21-22 Intermediate Spanish (Gerberich)
31-32 Advanced Spanish (Gerberich)
21 or 22 Brief Course in Sociology
26 Social Planning
31-32 Principles of Sociology
47 Social Economy
48 Social Legislation
61 The Family
83 Sociological View of Morals
84 The Place of Church in Society
91, 92 Special Problems
Associate Professor Cornelius Winfield Fink
23 American Economic Life
27 Insurance
35-36 Principles of Economics
93, 94 Research
Associate Professor Cornelius Winfield Fink
24 Studies in Government
33 Our Federal Government
95, 96 Research
Additional
Courses that count towards major or minor:
48 Social Legislation (Sociology)
35-36 International Law (History- to be given 1935-1936)
81-82 Diplomatic History of the United States, 1778 to Date (History- to
be given 1934-1935)
52 Economic Aspects of Our Foreign Policy (Economics- to be given 1935-1936)
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Dickinson 1934 is a project of Prof. Osborne's History 204 Class, Fall Semester 2000. |