Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divisional exams at the end of Senior year the field is divided into five special topics; the History of Psychology, Experimental, Abnormal, Comparative, and Social Psychology. In one examination the candidate for the degree will be tested on three of these topics, and in a second he will be examined on the field in general. In preparation for these examinations a considerable amount of tutorial work is desirable for integration and further study, and with the first class Faculty at Harvard, students feel they have a right to expect a reasonable amount and quality of tutorial instruction...
...courses 16 and 16a, on Social Psychology, Professor Allport will be aided by Professor Jenness of the University of Nebraska. The material is valuable for the special field of that title, but the course was criticized for its lack of practical application...
...advanced courses will vary with the interests of the concentrator, for there are four special fields within the department. The General Examinations are given in Senior year and comprise three three-hour exams, the first a general one on theory, the second on the concentrator's special field, and the third on one of 11 correlation fields. The four special fields are Sociological Theory and Methodology; Social Structure and Institutions; Social Dynamics and Social Change; and Social Pathology and Social Policy...
There is ample time allowed outside of the courses for reading and tutorial work in the special field, and the tutors are all good. It is a field in which reason and intelligence are stressed, not memory, and is therefore a good place for individual criticism. Moreover the subject is one which most people will be running into later in life and should undoubtedly know something about
...view of the fact that the regular graduation exercises will be held on June 23, the presentation will take place on July 11, at a special exercise to be held in University Hall...