!Thursday, September 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Thursday, September 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five A panorama of University schools and colleges EDITOR'S NOTE: The following sketches of the University's 18 schools and colleges were compiled by P.E. Bauer, Anita Crone, Beth Oberfelder, and Lynn Whitnall. Law school Law school, the University's most ivy-covered -institution, has in recent years attempted to re- tain its ivy while dispelling the image which the ivy conveys. "We consider the law school to be in constant ferment of ideas," says its new dean, Theodore St. Antoine. "It's just that we boil at a cooler temperature than some of the other schools." Indeed, it seems that the 1.200, student law school has been striv- ing for greater involvement in current affairs. Students in the law school can now take semi- nars in ecology and the law or drugs and the law. Many courses involve field trips to enableslaw students to better understand the problems with which they will be exected to deal as lawyers. Included among these projects have been groups interested in criminal rehabilitation who have worked in such places as Milan prison. The law school also offers such programs as legal aid to groups like migrant workers, seminars in privacy and the law, and a coursc in women and the law. En gineering Engineering School is one of the few undergraduate programs at the University where the stu- dent chooses his major after his freshman year. On the one hand, engineering school prepares the undergradu- ate for a career in one of the many engineering sciences. On the other hand, the student with a Bach lors degree in engineer- ing is repared to enter gradu- Education school School of Nursing The title. of the School of Education's official publication, The Innovator, more than ade- quately reflects the complexion of the school itself. In recent years, the school has prided itself upon its in- volvement in current social is- sues and increased student in- put in administrative decision- making. Students and faculty in the 3,500-person school are work- ing together to make changes in society, basing its programs on increased education of in- ner-city residents. To better prepare black and white students interested in teaching minority groups, the ed school has initiated an urban education program at five all- black elementary schools in De- troit. Other programs include a program for teacher training which is taking place in De- troit's Western High S c h o o I and all of its feeder schools. The purpose of the program is to involve student teachers in all areas of school activity. Medical school Tie University Medical School complex, one of the largest in the country, has also distinguish- ed itself as one of the best. Doctors and researchers in the University Medical Center con- tinue to distinguish themselves through recent medical break- throughs. Research ranges from cancer studies to investigations on the effects of marijuana on the me- tabolism of rats, to the widely publicized program of organ transplants. The 2,000 students in the medi- cal school are faced with what .has traditionally been called the The School of Nursing, one of the University's many programs of professional study, offers to the undergraduate a wide range of occupational opportunities in hospitals and homes, commun- ity health services, afid indus- try. In addition to strictly aca- demic fare, nursing students are able to involve themselves thoroughly in community serv- Dentistry school Dental work at cheap prices is one of the- most unique serv- ices offered to the community by students at the School of Dentistry. Assistant Dean Donald Stra- chan cautions that the proced- ure is a bit slower than conven- tional services, but assures that the work is of high quality. The 700 student dentistry school will move this fall into The 950-student college has three departments - two of which place major emphasis on the environment - and serves both graduates and undergrad- uates. A major aspect of the archi- tecture department is the train- ing of architects in the recon- ciliation of technology and the environment. An architecture student, ac- cording to the school announce- ment, must learn "to perceive Literature, Science and the Arts According to the literary college's catalogue, the College of Literature, Science and the Arts is "a public liberal arts college dedicated to the discovery and transmission of knowledge." Many students, however, regard it as a haven for the con- fused, a hodgepodge of 63 different concentration programs in which a person can almost certainly find an interesting pro- gram ifhe waits long enough. Other students find it not a haven for the confused but a cause for confusion, as they attempt to vie with 16,000 other LSA students for classes which seem to close earlier every year. Despite the obvious problems caused by its size and diver- sity, the literary college continues to present endless opportun- ities for students to elect concentration programs of their choice or create programs of their own. This freedom and diversity in the literary college may be- come even broader, some say, as Geology Prof. Frank Rhodes enters his -first term as dean. Appointed in May, Rhodes seems willing to try new approaches to education, and terms his own ideas "fairly wild by conventional standards." Already, the literary school includes several programs as options to the standard offerings of degrees and courses. The Bachelor of General Studies program (BGS) allows students to graduate without distribution and concentration requirements. Course mart gives literary college students the opportunity to create their own courses. And Pilot Program and the Residential College' are pro- grams which combine dorm life with classroom learning and give Dean Rhodes the student benefits of both the large literary college and the personalized sub-unit. in such traditional areas as case work, the courts, asylums and prisons, there is a growing num- ber who desire to participate in more non-professional areas of community action. It is "part of one's education- al experience" to work in the ghetto, with problems of hous- ing and poor neighborhoods, in a place like Ozone House (a home for runaways), or in tra- ditional institutional service. The school also encourages its 73,0 students to participate in the administration of social aid. Thus, students are gaining ex- perience by moving into studen offices on campus and working with city and state legislators on societal problems. Music school The School of Music offers a sizable number of opportunities for both music and non-manic students, including a wide selec- tion of academic courses and many chances for both perform- ing and viewing performances. During the year the 900 stu- dents of the school present ap- proximately 250 concerts, of which only the operas charge ad- mission. These programs include performances by the various en- sembles and individual recitals by both students and faculty. Severalscoursesadesigned for students not concentrating in mu- sic are available in the areas of theory, history, and composition. Although in the past these courses have closed quickly, classroom space now being con- structed will enable these class- es to expand, possibly by next term. Students outside the music school who have suffficient back- ground are eligible to audition for the orchestras and bands and there are also several popular choral groups open to students outside the school. Natural Resources The School of Natural Re- sources has recently revamped its curriculum to make course offerings more responsive to a rapidly-changing environmental field, according to Dean James McFadden. Before the renovation, there were four distinct departments in t h e 650-student school -- forestry, landscape architecture, resource planning and conser- vation, and wildlife and fisher- ies. The new system involves four academic discipline groups -- biological and physical sciences, resource policy, environmental design, and planning, manage- ment and administration. At the undergraduate level, t h e curriculum provides a "broad and flexible program" in \hich students with no specific career goal can obtain a "lib- eral, environmentally - orient- ed bachelor's degree." Intaddition, trh e school will continue to offer several scien- tific or pre-professional pro- grams! in areas such as conser- vation, fisheries, forestry, nat- uralist education a n d wildlife managements. On the master's level, the school will try to keep pace with the interests of students, t h e Law quad: Home of ivy and innovations needs of society, and new ap- proaches to natural resources planning and management. Library Science Thesnewest school in the University, and one of the smallest, the School of Library Science attempts to "prepare a selected group of college grad- uates for & professional career in librarianship." The major emphasis of the 430-member school is that a modern librarian must be well acquainted with the latest sour- ces of ,research information in all fields of study. In addition to serving as an information research person, according to one future li- brarian, a major aspect of the job is to teach people how to utilize the tremendous wealth available in libraries. The school, founded in July, 1969, lists among its require- If winU ments courses in bibliographies of social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. These courses cover the merits of var- ious 'reference books in each field and the numerous sources of informationavailable. One student noted the use- fulness of this knowledge to undergraduates and bemoaned the fact that bibliography cour- ses in library science are only open to graduate students. Flint College . If the Big 'U' is too big, too impersonal, and too easy to get lost in, you came to the wrong campus. The University of Michigan at Flint offers many of the same programs that one finds him- self taking at the Ann A r b o r campus. However, there is one import- ant difference. Flint is small See A GLANCE, Page 8 Rackham Grad School Horace H. Rackham School for Graduate Studies is one of the best in the country, according to the American Coun- cil 'on Education (ACE), which collectively ranked the Uni- versity's graduate schools seventh in the nation. The survey, published last January, was only one of the many commendations the graduate school has received. For the University is primarily a graduate institution, with the bulk of its 35,000 students enrolled in one of the graduate programs. It is from these programs that the University gains its academic reputation. Byron L. Groesbeck, one of four associate deans in the graduate school, attributes the school's high rating to what he calls its outstanding faculty, which he says attracts out- standing students. Rackham encompasses all M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. pro- grams in the University, as well as 25 professional master degrees. One of the main advantages of having most of the Uni- versity's graduate programs under one administrative body, according to Groesbeck, is that "academic standards can have effect equally throughout." Graduate students at the University are caught in a dual role, for usually they are both student and teaching fellow or research assistant, and the ambiguity of their role has led to much confusion on whether to treat teaching fellows as students or employes. It is through grants and loans to graduate students that a sizable amount of the University's annual intake of re- search money enters the school. -ice, and even get academic cre- dit for their work. Students in public health nursing can apply their talents by working with families a n d agencies in Jackson. Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dear- born. Students of psychiatrics have opportunities to gain personal experience in their field by working at halfway houses with ex-heroin addicts, at Ypsilanti State Hospital, or at the Neural Psychiatric Institute. Public Health "In size and complexity, though not in research, Michi- gan's School of Public Health is the largest in the nation, accord- ing to Dean Myron E. Wegman. In summarizing the numerable activities of the public health school, Wegman attributed as its major goals, "the preparation of persons in a wide variety of occupations relating to public health," conducting research, and providing "advice and guid- ance to the Michiganecommunity and national organizations on public health and preventive medicine." The leading public health prob- lems of today, as described in a publication of the school, in- clude chronic diseases, mental illness, environmental threats, and accidents. Ecology, also, is a primary concern of the school, for "the major objective of ecology is the health of human beings," - Wegman observed. In addition to the Department of Environmen- tal and Industrial Health, there is a Center for Population Plan- ning. Much of the school's research is devoted to environmental prob- lems. Recent studies include the research of remote sensing tech- niques for water pollution detec- tions, of radiation in Lake Michi- gan, and population control in India. ate work in engineering, law, business administration, or medi- cal school. Engineers work on solving con- temporary problems the solution of which involves technology. The 4,200 engineering under- grads can enter any of a num- ber of departments. In addition to the departments within the school, an option is open for students who want to put to- gether their own programs. The graduate program in engi- neering offers a Masters degree in engineering in any of the de- partments, as well as a Ph.D. most difficult curriculum, in- cluding both pre-med and medi- cal school work lasting for about eight years. Recent changes in academic structuring, however, now have made it possible for a limited number of medical school stu- dents to complete the required courses in five years instead of eight. In this virtually unprecedent- ed move, the University has made it possible to produce qual- ified doctors at a faster rate than almost any other school in the country. a modern $18 million complex on Fletcher St., where class- rooms will have the benefit of some of the University's most modern teaching equipment. Closed circuit color television will be used in the classroom, as well as the only computer on campus devoted exclusively to teaching. Prerequisite for admission to the School of Dentistry is a minimum of two years of un- dergraduate study, but most entering students have at least three years, and 50 per cent have a B.S, degree. One third of the dental school students attended Michigan as undergrads. Pharmacy school The College of Pharmacy, the smallest school in the Univer- sity, prides itself on its at- tempts to offer personal at- tention to each of its less than 300 students. Because it is an integral part of a large institution, pharmacy studentsgare able to make use of all the facilities offered by a large University while at the same time enjoying the ad- vantages of membership in a small, closely-knit group. The academic life of the phar- macy student may well be one of the most exacting in t h e University, requiring freshmen to take one course each in phar- macy, math, and botany and two chemistry courses. After that time, students choose their own particular area of study, deciding from such alternatives as hospital phar- macy, clinical pharmacy, phar- maceutical chemistry and phar- macognosy. Although the heavy work load tends to restrict activities of many pharmacy students, a few still participate in Ann Arbor community projects. A free people's clinic, recent- ly organized in Ozone House, provides free medical help for citizens and is staffed by stu- dents of the University's phar- macy, medicine, and public health schools. Business Administration Tomorrow's business leaders can get their start in the Uni- versity's School of Business Administration, where b o t h graduates and undergraduates get a foundation in business management. For the 250 undergraduates, business administration school means learning.about the prob- lems of large organizations and how to solve them, as well as gaining an overview of manage- ment of all areas. The undergraduate program is open to juniors and s e n i o r s only, and most have completed distribution requirements in the Literary College. How- ever, about 20 per cent of busi- ness administration undergrad- uates come from the engineer- the ordered relationship of man and his environment and to translate this order into designs for the physical environment." Attention to the environment is also stressed in the depart- ment of urban planning, open to graduate students. The pro- gram involves a core study of the fundamentals of urban planning and a field of spec- ialization. The primary emphasis of the art department is the prepara- tion of "professional" artists to meet a steadily rising demand in society. Students are encouraged to focus on an area of concentra- tion such as advertising, interior and industrial design, ceramics, painting, printmaking, photo- graphy and sculpture. 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