Arts, Letters and Science 140. History and Philosophy of Science—Historical development of scientific thought in the physical, biological, and social sciences with special emphasis on the 20th century theory and methodology. A (5). Olson 150. History and Philosophy of Occidental Religions— Problems and types of religious philosophy among Jews and Christians. A (3). Olson 155. History and Philosophy of Oriental Religions—Problems and types of religious philosophy among Hindus, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, and Moslems. S (3). Olson Department of Psychology Gary L. Carson, Chairman Professors, James B. Harvey, Jennings G. Olson, William D. Stratford; Associate Professors, Gary L. Carson, Royal P. Murdock, Benne D. Williams; Assistant Professor, Terry L. DeVietti; Instructor, W. Bruce Haslam. Associate Staff Members: Professors, Helmut P. Hofmann, Ralph D. Marsden; Associate Professor, Alan J. Dayley; Assistant Professor, Dan O. Rhodes; Instructors, Leon H. Blake, M. Kay Evans, Emil O. Hanson, Don N. Jensen. Weber State College is able to enrich its offerings and to extend its scope by the direct cooperation of staff members of other state institutions, and by members of the college student personnel staff. Purpose The study of psychology should be of basic importance to every student because it aims to develop a scientific understanding of experience and behavior, to eliminate the errors of the past (and present) in cultivating more careful habits of thought with regard to human behavior. With broad applications and by integrating certain phases of the life, physical, and social sciences, psychology has important contributions to make to personal development and to professional training. The psychology offering at Weber State College is designed: 1. To provide a professional program for students desiring to major in psychology and perhaps planning to. do graduate work in psychology. 174 Arts, Letters and Science 2. To provide a thoroughly adequate program to prepare both psychology teachers for the secondary schools and other teachers with composite subject majors which include psychology. 3. To provide courses and programs to assist with the training of all elementary and secondary teachers. 4. To provide courses to help train students in business, nursing, and other fields. 5. To provide undergraduate courses to help train students who plan to work in education, in the business community, and in Federal or State jobs in the areas of social or psychological service. 6. To provide courses that contribute importantly to the general education of all students, particularly to help them understand themselves and others and to help solve personal and cultural problems. The majority of job openings in areas related to psychology will likely require graduate work or training beyond the baccalaureate degree. This is particularly true in the following areas: counseling and guidance in the public schools; teaching psychology at the college level; conducting therapy in clinics or in private practice; and working as a school psychologist. There are, however, growing numbers of areas in which the person trained at the baccalaureate level can find vocational opportunities: psychological services in business, industry, and government, particularly related to testing and personnel work; teaching psychology, mental health, and personality development in high schools; assisting in research projects in the behavioral sciences; and working in programs related to governmental agencies, such as the Job Corps, Anti-Poverty, Medicare, Headstart and Upward Bound Programs. Additional opportunities include branches of the military, Civil Service, United States Employment activities, Internal Revenue Service, various levels of state and district courts, law enforcement activities, the ministry, nursing, medicine, and others. The optimum preparation for psychology is basic training in the liberal arts, such as in the biological sciences, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences, with emphasis on breadth and depth. The minimum of 40 quarter hours in the general area requirements could well be exceeded. Students planning on a psychology major should note that their grade point average in ALL of their college classes is important. Competition for graduate school admission and for positions is keen. For those students definitely planning graduate work, at least twenty-four quarter hours of French, German, Spanish, 175