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Summary

Hoard's Dairyman, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

ABSTRACT

Keith Huston asked that students be given a wide choice of courses from which they can select. Recognizing that as high school students they were exposed to chemistry, mathematics, English, biology, etc., they could have chosen fields other than agriculture. Since they did not, many of the courses that seem so important today are those the students had rejected.

He warned that courses which seem logical to a Ph.D. often appear to be useless abstractions to a high school graduate. Huston feels that our existing degree programs in animal science are good but, for most students, they are too heavily biased in favor of required physical and biological sciences.

Referring to CUEBS (Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences) and CEANAR (Commission on Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources), Huston was critical of the core of biological science courses which all students are required to take. He believes that required courses are protected from the salutary effects of student rejection if they are not well taught. Moreover, they tend to become sacred in curricula.