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Show 18 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH Curriculum Weber College aims to realize its objectives through its curriculum which includes all of the students' out-of-class activities as well as their in-class activities, the instruction proper. At considerable expense, the College conducts a continuous curriculum-building program to meet the needs of its five major groups of students. It aims to keep its curricula sensitive to social changes, and to community and individual needs. A grant of $6,000 from the General Board of Education, and $3,000 from the State Board of Education, is being used in the development of such curricula. Program of Studies The chairman of the divisions of the College are responsible for recommending to the President the course of study programs in their respective divisions. These divisions are: (1) The Division of Economics and Business (including Business, and Economics); (2) The Division of Humanities (including Art; English Language, Literature, and Speech; Foreign Languages; and Music); (3) The Division of Life Sciences (including Bacteriology and Hygiene; Botany, Agriculture, and Forestry; Home Economics; Zoology and Physiology); (4) The Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (including Chemistry; Geology and Geography; Mathematics and Engineering; and Physics); (5) The Division of Physical Education (including Community Activities; Health;, Interscholastic Athletics; Intra-murals; and Physical Education); (6) The Division of Social Sciences (including History and Political Science; Orientation; Psychology and Education; and Sociology and Philosophy); (7) The Division of Technical Education (including Auto Mechanics; Carpentry; Commercial Art; General Trades; Machine Shop; Power Sewing Machine Operation; Radio Mechanics and Railroad Telegraphy; Welding; Aircraft and Engine Mechanics; In-plant Training; and Supervisory Development); (8) The Division of Adult Education (including courses from any one of the divisions); and (9) The Division of Civil Aeronautics Administration War Training Service (including courses of study prescribed and administered by federal authorities). This last-named division is not a permanent division of the College; it is a war program conducted by Weber in cooperation with the Government. Students who enroll in Weber College should decide: (1) whether they plan a program that takes them through the university and leads to a professional career, or (2) whether they desire a program that ends with the junior college and leads into the semi-professions and industry. For Transfer Students Courses paralleling the work of the lower division of the universities preparatory to junior standing in the liberal arts and sciences and in the professional courses of the universities are designed for the first group who are called "transfer students." Included in the liberal arts and sciences, and professional courses offered in Weber College, are the following: Agriculture, Art, Bacteriology, Botany, Business, Chemistry, Economics, Education, Engineering, English, Forestry, French, Geography, Geology, German, History, Home Economics, Hygiene, Mathematics, Music, Orientation, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Physiology, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish, Speech, and Zoology. Courses numbered from 1 to 49 inclusive allow college transfer credit. WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 19 For Terminal Students Courses of instruction of a cultural, semi-professional, trade, industrial, business, or other occupational nature that will qualify students to enter the industrial or commercial world at the end of two years or less of study are designed for the second group who are called "terminal students." These students are not interested in graduation from senior institutions of higher learning. Included in the terminal courses offered in Weber College are the following: Aircraft and Engine Mechanics (including Engine Overhaul; Fabric, Leather, and Canvas; Instruments; Machine Shop; Paint and Doping; Propellers; Sheet Metal; Aircraft Welding; and Arc Welding); Auto Mechanics (including Auto Body Reconditioning and Automotive Service and Repair); Business (including Shorthand, Typewriting, Office Machines, Clerical Procedure, and General Business Courses); Carpentry; Commercial Art; Engineering; English; General Trades; (and trade-related electives in: Drafting Problems, Internal Combustion Engines, Labor Problems, Vocational Orientation, and Vocational Science); In-plant Training; Machine Shop; Power Sewing Machine Operation; Radio Mechanics and Railroad Telegraphy; Supervisory Development; Welding; and Zoology. Courses numbered 50 and above allow terminal credit. Terminal courses are offered for junior college credit only and are accepted by Weber College toward graduation of the terminal student. Summer Session Program In response to the need for acceleration of college training, preparation in the war industries and for the military service, Weber College offers a Summer Session Program in Business, in the C.A.A. War Training Service, in Nursing, in the Trades and War Production Industries, and in regular college subjects with transfer value. Business courses include Military Filing, Office Machines, Shorthand, and Typewriting. The C.A.A. War Training Service includes Aerology, Aircraft Familiarization and Engines, Civil Air Regulations, Communications, Meteorology, Navigation, Physical Training, Power Plants, Recognition (Aircraft Identification), and Theory of Flight. Nursing includes Anatomy, Bacteriology, Physiology, and Sociology. The Trades and War Production Industries include Aircraft Engines, Blueprint Reading, Engineering Mathematics, Machine Shop, Mechanical Drawing, Painting, Radio, Sheet Metal, Surveying, and Welding. Regular college subjects include Algebra, Bacteriology, Geography of Utah, Psychology, Sociology, and Trigonometry. Physical Education includes any regular quarter activity. The faculty for the day and evening classes is composed of sixty-four regular college instructors. Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital Affiliation Through an arrangement made by administrators of the College and the Hospital, student-nurses pursue at Weber College a specific number of courses designated by authorities of the Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital. These courses are offered throughout the year. |