NEW COURSES IN THE CURRICULUM
Several of the departments in the College will undergo a reorganization either in courses or personnel during the next college year. This is most notable in the case of the Department of Public Speaking. Professor W. C. Shaw leaves Dartmouth to accept the position of Professor of Public Speaking at Knox College. Illinois. Professor L. S. Hastings retires and Mr. H. L. Childs will transfer his activities to the Department of Economics. Professor James A. Winans, who comes to Dartmouth from Cornell University, will assume the supervision of the Department of Public Speaking and will be assisted by other members of the Department not yet appointed. The courses announced in public speaking for next year include a course in elementary public speaking, another in speech making, and courses in argumentation and debate.
Two new courses are also announced by the Department of Sociology. One will be a study of community organization considering the current social reconstruction problems and will be given by Professor E. B. Woods. The other is a course in social psychology, which is offered by Professor J. F. Mecklin, who comes to Dartmouth from the University of Pittsburg. In the second semester new courses will also be offered in racial problems and social progress.
In the Division of Fine Arts a new course has been introduced which comprises a survey of the three subjects taught in that Division: archaeology, modern art and music and will be participated in by all. the members of the Division. It is designed to afford an elementary acquaintance with the field of fine arts and to provide a general aesthetic course to students not desiring to select any one fine arts subject but wishing a survey of several. In the field of modern art a course by Dr. Griggs in pictorial photography has been scheduled in which each student will be required to make a collection of his own photographs of real merit, finished in platinum, in carbon, or oil. Mr. Rugg, the assistant librarian, will also give a course on the art of the book, studying the introduction of printing, the history of the famous presses, book binding, book plates and book illustration.
