Department of Social Science

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# Title Date Summary
51 Mexican tour reservations are available
College Eye 48:12, p.6 		Several openings are available.
52 Social Science sponsors Mexican tour
Alumnus 40:4, p. 		Eight-week tour planned for this summer.
53 Summer tour of Mexico will be on travel-for-credit basis
College Eye 48:5, p.8 		Louis Bultena will lead tour; a look at the itinerary.
54 Social Science Department plans Mexican study tour
College Eye 47:37, p.1 		A look at the tour planned for summer 1957.
55 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.104 		Brief description of the department; photo.
56 Departments begin moving to renovated Campus School
Alumnus 40:2, p.2 		Social Science moves into third and part of second floor; Earth Science moves to second floor; Business Education will move into first and basement floors; Education and English move into Auditorium.
57 Department to move next Friday
College Eye 47:21, p.6 		Several departments will be shifted as a result of vacancy and renovations in the old Campus School; name of old Campus School may be changed.
58 Herman Finer will deliver two lectures
College Eye 47:16, p.1 		On the subject of war.
59 Dr. Thompson retires as Social Science head
Alumnus 39:3, p.11 		Professor Lang will succeed Professor Thompson; Professor Howard will succeed Professor Lang as Coordinator of Curriculum and Assistant to the Dean of Instruction; photo.
60 Social Science Plans European Trip
Old Gold 0:0, p.92 		Description of the trip plans to Europe with approximately thirty-eight students accompanied by Dr. Thompson and Dr. Harris; photos.
61 Social Science dinner honors Dr. Thompson
College Eye 46:28, p.2 		Will retire September 1.
62 Thompson announces social science location
College Eye 46:25, p.7 		Will move to former Campus School.
63 Lang succeeds Thompson as social science head
College Eye 46:20, p.1 		Professor Thompson will retire; change will be effective September 1, 1955; profiles of both men; photo.
64 TC goes afield
Alumnus 38:4, p.6 		Professor Bultena describes class tour of Southwest; photo.
65 Plaehn shows slides of continental trip
College Eye 46:7, p.3 		To Social Science Department.
66 Meet Dr. Merle R. Thompson
College Eye 45:34, p.2 		Profile of Professor Thompson; photo.
67 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.245 		Brief description of the department; photo.
68 Tour of southwestern states offers social science credit
College Eye 45:22, p.1 		Description of trip that will study anthropology and sociology of minority groups
69 Southwest study tour scheduled for summer
Alumnus 38:1, p.8 		Will spend four weeks on ISTC campus and four weeks on tour.
70 Contemporary affairs has film each month
College Eye 45:3, p.6
71 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.160 		Description of the Social Science Department and photos of the faculrty and of some students; photo.
72 Special To: West Des Moines Express
Public Relations News Release 1952:469, p.1 		Two West Des Moines students have been elected to offices in Pi Tau Phi, a local social sorority. Jere Keeler was elected president and Betty Lou Murray, vice-president. Both are junior students majoring in social science.
73 M. R. Thompson, head of the college social science department, will address the Foreman's association of the Solar Aircraft company in Des Moines
Public Relations News Release 1952:432, p.1 		The invitation to address the group was the result of Thompson's report of the 56th Congess of American Industry held in New York, N.Y., in December. The report was given on the "Behind the Headlines" program originating in the radio studios.
74 Social science to lead coffee hour
College Eye 43:15, p.8 		Professor Plaehn will lead discussion.
75 Special To: The Daily Record
Public Relations News Release 1951:282, p.1 		The new year finds the college 75 years young, looking forward to the inquguration of its graduate program in the summer of 1952. A major curriculum revision for degree students began during the 1951 summer session.
76 Special to: Bremer County Independent
Public Relations News Release 1951:221, p.1 		Kenneth Kammeyer and Don Pothast, both of Waverly, have been formally activated into Alpha Chi Epsilon, a local social fraternity. Kammeyer is a junior student majoring in social science and Pothast is a senior student majoring in business education.
77 Special to: Waverly Democrat
Public Relations News Release 1951:222, p.1 		Kenneth Kammeyer and Don Pothast, both of Waverly, have been formally activated into Alpha Chi Epsilon, a local social fraternity. Kammeyer is a junior student majoring in social science, and Pothast is a senior sudent majoring in business education.
78 M. R. Thompson
Public Relations News Release 1951:201, p.1 		Thompson, head of the social science department, will attend the 56th annual Congress of American Industry in New York City, December 5 - 7.
79 Twenty-five faculty members will be on leave of absence during the 1951-52 academic year
Public Relations News Release 1951:63, p.1 		Nine faculty members in the teaching department, three from the departments of education and English and speech, two from industrial arts and mathematics, and one from home economics, art, music, physical education for women, social science, and library.
80 Seven departments have been authorized by the state board of education to offer graduate level courses leading to the Master of Arts in Education
Public Relations News Release 1951:25, p.1 		M. J. Nelson, dean of the faculty, announced today that Six of the departments - business education, education, English and speech, science, mathematics, and social science- will participate in the graduate program beginning in the summer of 1952.
81 Seven departments have been authorized by the state board of education to offer graduate level courses leading to the Master of Arts in Education
Public Relations News Release 1951:31, p.1 		In outlining the board of education's decision, Dean M. J. Nelson said graduate work offered by the education departments will be in four areas-elementary teaching, elementary supervisor, elementary principalship, and secondary principalship.
82 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.68 		Brief description of the department; photo.
83 The United Nations delegate from India, Shamaldharee Lall, spoke Tuesday night, May 1, at the college
Public Relations News Release 1950:344, p.1 		Lall's address, "The United Nations Today," was given before an audience of approximately 500. His topic dealt with the structure of the UN, rather than with any controversial issue.
84 The doomed Red general in "Darkness at Noon" could easily be any one of several real victims of the bloody Moscow purge trials of 1936-38
Public Relations News Release 1950:326, p.1 		Events leading to the trials, says Lyman Harris, are typical of Russia's traditional policy of iron-hand rule at all cost. Lenin's death in 1924 touched off a battle for power between Stalin and Trotsky.
85 Two education conferences at Teachers College
Public Relations News Release 1950:33, p.1 		The education and social science departments are jointly sponsoring a conference for elementary and secondary school teachers of the social sciences. A second conference on industrial arts education will be held in the new arts and industries building.
86 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.51 		Brief description of the department; photo.
87 Pi Gamma Mu holds picnic at Hartman's
College Eye 41:29, p.7 		Seniors hold panel discussion on "Teachers College and the Social Science Department".
88 Two instructors added to faculty
College Eye 40:39, p.1 		Brief profiles of Professors Lang and Svenson.
89 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.40 		Brief description of the department; photo.
90 Social Science is not overcrowded
College Eye 40:30, p.4 		Professor Thompson believes that there is room for more good social science teachers.
91 Psychology classes take field trip
College Eye 39:40, p.4 		Visit schools in Eldora and Woodward.
92 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.41 		The department, with Dr. M. R. Thompson, is fulfilling the demands of the students with an increase enrollment with veterans and the constant changes going on in the world; photo.
93 Students see hospital for insane
College Eye 38:38, p.3 		Professor Bultena's sociology class visits Independence.
94 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.97 		Brief description of the department; photo.
95 Letter to the editor
College Eye 38:25, p.4 		Discuses the recent editorial comments concerning the "Contemporary Affairs" class at I.S.T.C.
96 Letters to the editor
College Eye 38:24, p.2 		Respond to criticisms of contemporary affairs class.
97 Roger's Rambling Remarks
College Eye 38:15, p.2 		Offers suggestions for improvement around the college.
98 Social Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.47 		The Department of Social Sciences focuses on the social issues of the nation and world; photo.
99 Contemp, short but tough, causes grade-point slump
College Eye 37:32, p.3 		Professor Thompson talks about modifications and improvements in the Contemporary Affairs class.
100 Sociology class visits Eldora
College Eye 37:32, p.1 		Impressions of the trip.