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  • TYPE OF COLLEGE Western Carolina College is chartered as a degree-granting co-educational institution. Although fulfilling a multi-purpose service as a regional institution of higher learning, the College is performing its full State-wide responsibility in the function of teacher education, which it emphasizes as its major concern. In harmony with this emphasis, however, the College, following its usual summer program, will provide not only an extensive, rich, and varied curriculum during the summer in teacher education but also an excellent and attractive one in the liberal arts, in business administration, and in pre-professional training. Courses are also provided toward the degree in nursing, and in other fields. Undergraduate Division As an undergraduate college this institution is a member of the North Carolina College Conference, the American Council on Education, the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. It also holds a standard rating with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Graduation from any one of the undergraduate professional curricula entitles one not only to the bachelor's degree but also to a State teacher's certificate, Class "A". A well-balanced program of courses is provided for in the summer, as in the regular year, leading toward the professional Bachelor of Science degree as well as to that of Bachelor of Science with majors in various fields, such as business administration and nursing, and to the Bachelor of Science in forestry (worked out on a cooperative plan with North Carolina State College), and the Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal arts. Graduate Division For six years (beginning in 1951) graduate work leading to the degree of Master of Arts in Education, with minors provided in various high school teaching subjects, has been a part of the program. This degree includes also, in its program of service, offerings for the needs of elementary teachers, supervisors, principals, superintendents, and special education teachers. The first graduate degrees were conferred by the College in August, 1952. Essentially, the aim of this program is improvement in the proficiency of the teacher in the practical and realistic role of teaching. The primary interest, therefore, is in the individual who enrolls for graduate study. For this reason it recognizes the necessity, as well as the responsibility, of confinement to professional aspects of study and training applicable to those engaged in teaching and in closely related types of service. The program is thus conducted on the assumption that the professional competency of the teacher can be enhanced. Because of the functional emphasis inherent in the program, minimum stress is to be given to a type of graduate study that is essentially concerned with research or to knowledge not immediately related to the professional needs of the student. The program, in other
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