College of Arts and Sciences At Harding University, the College of Arts and Sciences constituted the academic backbone of the institution. All baccalaureate programs required the completion of 53 semester hours of structured courses in the arts and sciences that were designed to give each student some basic knowledge in appreciation of the fine arts, humanities , social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, human behavior , oral and written communication and the Bible. The College was made up of 14 academic departments. each offering one or more majors . For the 1984 fall semester, 1,123 of the 2,740 undergraduate students that we enrolled declared a major in the College and 29,151 hours of the 40,435 hours student semester hours of credit generated were in the College . During the 1983-84 , the College produced 244 of the 560 baccalaureate majors who graduated. Dr. Dean B. Priest, Dean of the College organized an Academic Council of Arts and Sciences, composed of the 14 department chairmen , to give continuing study to policies and problems. Dr. Raymond Lee Muncy , Chairman of the Department of History and Social Science, and Dr. Allen L. Isom , Assistant Chairman of the Department of Bible, along with Dean Priest , represented the College on the Academic Affairs Committee of the University. t~'&' Department of Art Goes Abroad - Robinson Visits Italy The Potter and the Clay. Senior Mary Louise Evans from Southaven, Mississippi, works a mound of clay into a vase during an art lab . _ photo by James McCreary, Don D. Robinson , Professor of Art and Chairman of the Department, spent the 1984 fall semester in Florence, Italy, assisting Dr. Don Shackelford, Director of the Harding University in Florence Program. He took hundreds of slides of famous art treasures in Italy and Greece to be used in the history and appreciation classes on campus. Another significant event for the Department of Art was the retirement of Elizabeth B . Mason from teaching some five years after she had retired as Chariman of the 176 Art Department. She began teaching in the fall of 1946 and built the art program into one of the most outstanding undergraduate art programs of the south. Various members of the Deparment were assigned the teaching of the appreciation and history classes she had taught for years. In January she presented a show of art works spanning her teaching career. Mr. Robinson and John Keller attended the Southeast College Art Conference in Chattanooga and Dr. Faye Doran attended the Art Therapy Conference at the University of Oklahoma and The National Weaver's Guild "Convergence" in Dallas. Faculty members took art majors on tours of art shows in Little Rock, Memphis , Tulsa and Chicago . Paul Pitt presented a one-man pottery exhibit at Freed-Hardeman College, Mr. Robinson exhibited two recent paintings in area shows and Dr. Doran hosted a gallery show of the Central Arkansas Weaver's Guild. The gallery shows of senior art majors attracted a large number of viewers.~ Faye M. Doran, EdD - Professor Stanley B. Green, BSE - Instructor Joh_n E. Keller, MA - Asst. Professor Paul M. Pitt, MFA - Assoc. Professor Don D. Robinson, MA - Professor & Chairman
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