Lycoming College Report, May and Summer Session 1974 Supplement

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COLLEGE REPORT February 1974/Volume 27, Number 2/ May and Summer Session Supplement
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MAY 6, 1974
On May 6, 1974 you can begin an
exceptional experience at Lycoming
College — The MAY TERM.
In its third year as a unique opportunity at
Lycoming, the MAY TERM will again
provide students with a challenging array
of fifty-five specially designed courses for
the four-week term. As in the two
previous very successful MAY TERMS,
many non-traditional courses have been
designed and have such diverse topics as
construction of Appalachian folk stringed
instruments, black music, coaching of
athletics, film, folklore, hypnosis,
jewelry, Shamanism, Sylvia Plath, and
woodworking.
Newly designed courses to be offered have
such titles as "Accounting for Non-profit
Organizations", "Food Service",
"Physiological and Psychological Aspects
of Color", "Effective Communication",
and "The Russo-German War, 1941-45".
Other new offerings include "Electronics
for the Amateur Audiophiles",
"Philosophical Issues in Literature",
"Christianity and African Culture", "An
Introduction to Discrete Probability",
"Basic Research Methods in Psychology
Research Instrumentation", and "Holy
Sites and Religious Topics".
Back by popular demand for the third
MAY TERM are "Accounting Opinions of
the APB-FASB", "Managing the Small
Business", "Field Ornithology", "Modern
Archeological Research", "History of
Utopias in America", "Speleology", and
"Urban Confrontation".
The third "Cultural Tour of the U. S. S. R.
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will again enable students to experience
Russian culture in visits to Leningrad,
Moscow, Novgorod, Kiev, Lvov, and
Budapest, as well as Denmark, Finland,
and West Germany,
The tri-cultural community of Northcentral
New Mexico will be home for the third
time for another "Field Experience in
Sociology-Anthropology" group as they
combine cultural anthropological and
sociological field methods to learn how to
analyze a community in depth,
Washington, D. C. and London will have
return engagements this MAY TERM.
"Theatre and Music in London" will bring
students into direct contact with the
current theatre and music through
attendance at and evaluation of at least six
plays, two operas, two ballets, and two
concerts. They will meet with
practitioners in the arts and visit artistic
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and historical places. "The Washington
Minimester" A Course in Practical
Politics" will again provide students with
an opportunity to observe the workings of
our national government at first hand.
Other courses offered for the second
consecutive MAY TERM include: "Clinical
Microbiology", "Human Sexuality",
"Fishery Management", "Creative
Advertising", "Clinical Chemical
Analysis", "Introductory Psychology",
and "Futurism". The "Introduction to
Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography"
course will again be based at the Bermuda
Biological Station for Research, St.
George's West.
New on/off-campus courses this MAY
TERM which involve class work and field
study include a Vermont Photography
Workshop, and a "Living Off the Land"
adventure.
Several new foreign culture courses are
available. "A Spanish Inquisition, 1974"
will visit Madrid, Salamanca, Granada,
and Sitges. "An Examination of the
Changing Cultural Patterns of
Contemporary France" will include Paris,
Tours, Geneve, Chamonix-Grenoble,
Nice, Biarritz, and Marseille in its
itinerary. "The German Reformation,
In Germany" students will visit such East
German sites as Wittenburg, Eisleben, and
Erfurt. Ireland will be the land under first-hand
study when students consider several
modern Irish writers to contrast themes and
styles of those who remained in their native
land with those who became expatriates.
Several courses of particular Interest to
future teachers or those working for
JUNE 10, 1974
An additional thirty-three courses will be
offered during the six-week Summer
Session from June 10th to July 19th.
Wonderful opportunities are available for
students to take one or two courses with
classes scheduled at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.
,
6:00 p. m. , or as arranged.
Future teachers or those working for
certification may be interested in "Field
Biology for Teachers", "Teaching Social
Studies in the Elementary School",
"Science, Health, and Safety for
Elementary Teachers", "Methods and
Materials for Early Childhood Education",
"Curriculum Improvement in the Schools",
"Educational Psychology", and "Personality
Theory".
ThoBe interested in literature or the arts
can choose from "Introduction to
Literature", "Contemporary Literature",
"Crafts I", "Photography", "Crafts II" or
"Advanced Techniques of Play Production".
Of special appeal to business and industry
management personnel are "Elementary
Accounting Theory" and "Cost and
Budgetary Accounting Theory".
Courses of general interest include:
"Principles of Biology 1 & 2", "Field
Natural History 1 & 2", "Principles of
Political Economy 10 & 11", and
"Rhetoric".. "Elementary Geometry",
"Finite Mathematics for Decision Making"
and "Introduction to Statistics" are being
offered, as are "Introductory Psychology"
and "Sensory Experimental Psychology".
Other summer courses are "Social and
Political Philosophy", "Philosophy of
Religion", "Psychology of Religion",
"Perspectives on Religion", "Introduction
to Anthropology", and "Racial and Cultural
Minorities".
certification are available this MAY TERM.
The education department offers "The
Psychology and Teaching of Reading in the
Elementary School", "Open Classroom
Education", "Teaching Reading Skills in
Secondary Schools", and a special MAY-JUNE
course, "Curriculum Improvement
in the Schools". The mathematics
department is offering "Mathematics for
Elementary Teachers" and the psychology
department has "Educational Psychology"
and "Social Psychology".
MAY TERM classes, which start on May
6th and continue daily until May 31st, will
meet at 9:00 a. m. or 1;00 p. m. unless
scheduled to meet on some "arranged"
basis. A student may take one of the fifty-five
MAY TERM courses.