20 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 21 Provisions for Meeting Objectives Weber College aims to realize its objectives through its curriculum. Through its curriculum, which is interpreted to include all of the students' out-of-class activities as well as the instruction proper, the institution aims to realize its objectives. Program of Studies Weber College has developed a curriculum to meet the needs of each of its four major groups of students. Weber College has surveyed local areas and in the light of its findings has developed a curriculum to meet the needs of each of its four major groups of students. It is apparent that its purposes must be broad and that its program of studies must be diversified, functional, appealing, and sensitive to many types of interest and to varying degrees of student capacity. The function of the program of studies is two-fold. 1. College Preparatory: It offers courses, paralleling the work of the lower division of the universities, preparatory to junior standing in the liberal arts and sciences, and in professional courses of the universities, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. 2. Terminal: It provides two-year courses in the semi-professions, the arts and sciences, in trades and in industry. Such courses are complete in themselves. Curricular Organization The curricula of Weber College are organized into two divisions: College Preparatory and Terminal. The curricula of Weber College are organized into two divisions: the College Preparatory Division and the Terminal Division. A special curriculum may be arranged by the Dean of Instruction to meet the student's individual needs. This curriculum leads toward a Certificate of Completion and is a feature of the Guidance Program designed for individual education. The terminal function is often misinterpreted through erroneously connecting it with the notion that two years of college work is ample education and that students with that amount are made to feel that they "have arrived." It is important to stress here the fact that it is the course only that terminates, not the education of the individual. There is no end to education first as there should be no end to growth. The responsibility of the junior college for adult education arises out of the belief that two years of college work should not terminate the education of the individual. Purpose Weber College is a junior college. Weber College is a two-year state educational institution of junior college grade the primary purpose of which is to promote the development of its students and to direct their development along socially desirable lines. Weber College combines cultural and practical objectives in its educational philosophy. Some people say that the purpose of education is to make a life. Others say that it is to make a living. But most college students in their preparation for successful living feel that their education should be both, namely, a combination of the cultural and practical, or vocational. Weber College subscribes to this point of view. As a result of this philosophy, the distinction between academic and vocational courses is becoming less and less. Instructors teach academic courses with their vocational values in mind, and on the other hand, instructors in vocational courses consciously seek every opportunity to promote rounded cultural development. Weber College maintains high standards of scholarship and performance in all fields as it liberalizes its purposes and offerings. The emphasis in education is also being shifted from subject matter to student growth, from subject content to study needs, from the accumulation of information as an end in itself to the modification of behavior. To this changing emphasis Weber College also subscribes, vet along with this liberalization of purposes and offerings, it persistently seeks to maintain high standards of scholarship and performance in all fields. Weber College accepts as its first obligation the development of an enlightened citizenry. Weber College accepts as its first obligation the development of an enlightened citizenry. The state has a right to expect its schools to develop youth and adults who will assume social and civic responsibility in the interest of undergirding democracy. The college also shares with the community and the home, responsibility for the development in its students of personality and ethical character. Weber College is organized to serve four major groups of students. The scope of the institution is broad. It is organized to serve at least four major groups of students: (1) those preparing for upper division standing in institutions of higher learning, (2) those seeking a cultural education in courses that terminate at the end of the college sophomore year, (3) those desiring two years of technical semi-professional training that will qualify them to enter the commercial and industrial world, and (4) those whose needs are best met by short term courses and cooperative programs.