48-- 3. Extempore Speaking. Extempore speaking is encouraged as a regular class activity in English and Speech. The Department further conducts a Novitiate Contest in extempore speaking, the purpose of which is to orient new students in Weber College and to initiate them into the speech program of the College. The two winners of this contest represent the Frenchman class in the James L. Barker Contest. The James L. Barker Contest was originated for the purpose of stimulating interest in extempore speaking and of encouraging competition between freshman and sophomore students. The winner of the contest is honored by having the numerals of his class engraved upon a silver cup, and by receiving an individual cash award of ten dollars provided by the donor, Prof-fessor James L. Barker. 4. Impromptu Speech. Impromptu speech competition among individual participants is encouraged particularly by the Anderson Jewelry Company Award. A gold medal is presented each year by this Company to the winner of an annual impromptu speech contest conducted by the Department. 5. A major inter-collegiate oratorical contest on the subject of "Americanism," is sponsored by the Sons of the American Revolution each year in the interest of promoting American ideals. The Sons of the American Revolution provide a gold medal for the winner of the contest. 6. Students who distinguish themselves in forensics may qualify for contests held with other colleges within the State and elsewhere. Such contests include debating, extempore, impromptu, oratory, interpretative reading, and poetry reading. Students who meet the requirements may achieve membership in the Utah Alpha Chapter of Phi Rho Pi, national honorary forensic society. 7. Play Production. Play production at Weber College is carried on through the joint effort of the College and Ogden City Recreation Department under the direct management of the Ogden Community Theatre. This organization, which took effect in 1944-45, sponsors the various aspects of dramatic enterprise expressive of the community interest as a whole. This union of college and community interests assures the student superior opportunities for theatre experience in the following ways: (1) It assures him an expanded program and, in consequence, increased opportunity for roles, (2) it guarantees a greater and more advanced opportunity for stage and technical crews; (3) it provides superior training in acting as a result of opportunity for the students in casts composed of persons possessing greatest experience and finest abilities in the community; (4) it establishes a greater enthusiasm for plays on the part not only of players, but of audiences as well, yet centers the whole enterprise of the community in the College itself. ---49 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION Composition and Rhetoric 1. Composition and Rhetoric. An introduction to the four forms of discourse through reading, writing, and speaking. Special emphasis is placed upon an extended paper. A student is taught a method of collecting facts and of organizing them into a unified whole. The word, sentence, and paragraph are considered. Students weak in English fundamentals are given individual attention in a clinic. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 2. Composition and Rhetoric. A course in exposition and argument, with emphasis upon the processes and forms of exposition. Prerequisite: English 1. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 3. Composition and Rhetoric. A course in description and narration, with emphasis upon the types of narration. Prerequisite: English 1 and 2. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 4. Argumentation. A study of the principles of argument. These principles are discussed in connection with the preparation of the national debating question. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Monson 5. Argumentation. A continuation of English 4. Prerequisite: English 4. Three quarter hours. Winter. Monson 6. Journalism. A study of and practice in the fundamentals of news-writing. The class gathers news for the College paper, Signpost, composes, and edits it. The instruction includes: (1) journalism as a vocation, its opportunities and remuneration; (2) newspaper organization; (3) nature and evaluation of news; and (4) simple and complex story types. Three quarter hours. Autumn. Evans 7. Journalism. Class members are apprentice editors for certain issues of the College paper. Newspaper plants and scholastic press conference are attended. Students do newswriting in class. Three quarter hours. Winter. Evans 8. Journalism. A course concerned with policy in the news, feature story types, editorials, news editorials, news editing, copyreading, proofreading, headlining, and makeup. It is aimed at acquainting the student with all editorial room functions. Three quarter hours. Spring. Evans 11. Vocabulary Building. A course designed to give a student the correct pronunciation of words, and working knowledge of the best methods of enlarging his vocabulary. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Staff