Undergraduate Education in the Sciences for Students in Agriculture and Natural Resources Summary of Proceedings of Regional Conferences (1971) / Chapter Skim
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86 Carrol l V Hess racial reconciliation ; elimination of poverty ; modernization of laws and public codes; improving the quality of the environment ; main tenance of public order under newer structural and social systems and conditions ; adequate health services ; better transportation and com munication ; and, finally, the human desire for beauty, dignity, and well-being.
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SO C I A L SC I EN CES 87 it is vital to alert students to the man-created conditions that will persistently impinge upon the practice of their professions and their lives in the community. Notable recent improvements in secondary school education have occurred in mathematics and biological and physical sciences, de velopments that have not been matched in the social sciences and humanities.
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88 Carrol l V Hess "People problems" involving political action, aesthetics, use pref erences, and qualitative judgment have replaced the old questions of sustained yield, habitat, manipulation, and methods of inventory.
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SO CIAL SCI E N C ES 89 The Committee felt that today's baccalaureate candidates in profes sional schools should emphasize more social science if they are to be prepared for the world in which they must practice. The inevitable reduction in professional courses that occurs seems justified on grounds that the present level of professional over-specialization at the undergraduate level has been won at the cost of sacrificing a solid general education, basic-science exposure.
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6 The Junior College E R N EST TA R O N E There seems to be a very healthy interest in the junior college vis-a vis its relationship to and meaning for agricultural education. I and other junior college people have great concern for the relationship of our curriculum with the four-year institutions.
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