In Los Angeles, the Southern Branch of the University affords opportunity for graduate work during the intersession or summer session or both. Special consideration is shown agricultural teachers in this and other states who can spare only six weeks of each year for professional improvement and who desire to work for a master's degree. Similar opportunities are afforded at Berkeley and Davis. At the University Farm, Davis, the State Department of Education, in cooperation with the University of California, College of Agriculture, has established a teacher-training center for the preparation of high school agricultural instructors under the provisions of the Federal Smith-Hughes Act. The work of the teacher-training center is under the immediate supervision of the Division of Agricultural Education. The degree courses in agricultural education prerequisite for both the regular teacher's certificate and the special vocational agricultural certificate are given at the Davis Center. These include the Special Methods Course in Vocational Agricultural Education, the Special Methods Course in Teaching the Supplementary Vocational Subjects, and courses in the Organization and Supervision of Farm Projects and Observation and Practice Teaching. Research. The division of agricultural education has undertaken, as its major research project, the making and interpretation of educational and social surveys of certain typical rural communities in California. To men and women aspiring to qualify as rural social workers and educational leaders this work affords many problems for study. Principals in rural high schools and high school agricultural instruetors may select as subjects for research or thesis work, problems of individual or local importance. Such students are encouraged to make their graduate work of direct application and value to the communities in which they serve. Graduate Courses.-The graduate courses in agricultural education include a seminar or Special Problems course which must be taken in connection with the required thesis work and an Observation and Practice Teaching course which will take the student into one or more California high schools giving instruction in agriculture, for a period of at least six weeks during the latter part of the spring semester. As a major or thesis subject the graduate student is permitted to choose from a variety of subjects, all of which have to do with present day problems in the field of agricultural education. Preliminary Requirements. Students desiring to qualify for the master's degree in agricultural education should have previously completed work equivalent to that required for graduation by the University of California College of Agriculture. Master's Degree. For the master's degree, a minimum of 8 units of graduate work in agricultural education is required. The remaining 12 units of advanced work may be taken in agriculture and education, as individual needs and interests may dictate. High school teachers of agriculture may satisfy the residence requirements of the University for the master's degree by attending four summer sessions. This work may be done at Berkeley, Davis or Los Angeles, according as arrangements are previously made with the head of the division. 106. Special Methods in Teaching Vocational Agriculture 107A-107B. Farm Projects, Their Organization and KERN Supervision DADISMAN 108. Special Methods in Teaching the Supplementary Vocational Subjects DADISMAN 110. The Organization, Supervision and Administration of GRIFFIN 112. Agencies, Principles and Methods of Agricultural Extension 115. Selected Topics in Agricultural Education 120A-120B. Pro-seminar GRIFFIN GRIFFIN and KERN AGRONOMY Professors: J. W. GILMORE, B. A. MADSON, P. B. KENNEDY, W. W. MACKIE, G. W. HENDRY. Facilities. The facilities for graduate study in this division consist of a seminar room and two laboratories with equipment ready at hand, or readily provided, for morphological and comparative studies of crops and plant parts. One laboratory is equipped with suitable tables, cases, germinators, microscopes and other apparatus pertinent to general laboratory work in crop production; the other laboratory is supplied with apparatus for the study of seeds, grains and parts of plants in their relations to nutrition, varieties, and culture methods. Six hundred and twenty-five square feet of greenhouse space are available at Berkeley. At the several experimental stations-Davis, Kearney Park, and El Centro-facilities for the growing of crops under varying conditions of soil and climate are provided. In the general Library and the agricultural library are to be found a very complete collection of national and state reports and bulletins; also journals and periodicals on agronomy and cognate subjects. Research. With the facilities and equipment mentioned above, a number of lines of research are already under way. The relationships of cropping systems to crop-producing power of the soil, the improvement of cereals and forage crops by selection, crossing, adaptation, disease control, and studies in the relations of soil and aerial environment to the character and quality of the plant, may be mentioned as some of the types of research work now in hand. Graduate Courses.—The graduate courses of instruction in major subjects consist of a seminar, in which all resident instructors and graduate students take part, library work in the bibliography and experimental data bearing upon assigned subjects, and experimental work in the field or greenhouse. The student is required to write up his work in the form of a report, which will be judged both upon the arrangement and subject matter, as well as upon the work done. In general, the work is arranged to suit the requirements of the individual student. Preliminary Requirements. For the creditable performance of graduate work in the division of agronomy the student should have completed courses in soils, animal husbandry, and crop production; as coordinated subjects the student should have had at least one complete course in each of the following subjects: geology, chemistry, botany, entomology, and plant pathology. Master's Degree. To meet the requirements for the master's degree with agronomy as the major subject, the student must complete with credit 8 units of investigational work during both semesters, and in addition perform the duties of the seminar and the library assignments pertinent to the subject of investigation. Doctor of Philosophy.-All possible facilities in the way of apparatus, books, and opportunities for conference will be placed at the disposal of the students. Students looking forward to the doctor's degree in this division should communicate with the professor in charge for detailed information, stating the plan and scope of the work proposed. 200. 299. GRADUATE COURSES Advanced Agronomy. GILMORE and Staff. Professors: G. H. TRUE, F. W. WOLL, J. I. THOMPSON, J. F. WILSON. Instructors: D. T. BATCHELDER, G. H. WILSON, P. G. DOUGHERTY, C. V. CASTLE. Facilities. The different classes of live stock kept at the University Farm furnish excellent material for study and investigation of problems connected with animal husbandry. Many experiments conducted by members of the teaching staff with dairy cows, steers, sheep, goats, and hogs are in progress throughout the year and are reported from time to time in the publications of the College of Agriculture, as the investigations are completed. WOLL. 110. Seminar in Feeding Problems. TRUE. CITRICULTURE AND SEMI-TROPICAL POMOLOGY. Professor: J. E. COIT. Instructor: R. W. HODGSON. Facilities. The division of citriculture, organized in January, 1913, is increasing its facilities for graduate work. These facilities include a rapidly growing library with extensive indices to the literature, herbarium, museum of fruit specimens and plant parts, collections of tools and accessories, a small greenhouse, and a Buchner hydraulic press. The principal semi-tropical fruits included in the work of the division of citriculture are citrus fruits, dates, olives, avocados, figs, Japanese persimmons, pomegranates, feijoas, guavas, sapotes, tunas, cherimoyas, loquats, mangoes, and other fruits of less importance. Preliminary Requirements.—Graduates from this institution will be expected to have completed citriculture courses numbered 99, 101, 102, and 103. Graduates coming from other institutions will be required to include courses 101, 102, 103, and 105 in their first-year study-list. Foreign students should also include Citriculture 99. Major Work. Attention is especially called to the possibility of combining major work in the division of citriculture with correlated courses in other divisions, such as plant pathology, entomology, or pomology. Students with major work in other divisions may elect as correlative work Citriculture 201, upon satisfactory evidence of sufficient previous training, the instructor to pass upon each individual case. Doctor of Philosophy.-Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must have a broad knowledge of agricultural science and of horticulture in particular. They must complete a problem in independent research with citrus or semi-tropical fruits. They will be expected, when necessary, to bear the expense of travel in the citrus districts in search of special material or data to be used in their research work. 106. Physiology and Anatomy of Citrus and Semi-Tropical Fruits COIT. |