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Advantages and Limitations of Consolidation of Commodity Groups in Preparing Students for a Career in Dairy Science

Dairy Technology in a Food Science Department

Department of Food Science, University of Illinois, Urbana

ABSTRACT

To earn a college degree, a student needs to satisfy two requirements—attain satisfactory grades in his courses and complete courses which make up his curriculum. From this, it follows that the quality of the academic phase of a college education is commensurate with the quality of the curriculum. Because of the great importance placed upon it, a curriculum in any field should be reexamined periodically for any signs which may indicate that it is no longer serving the most urgent needs of the students. A curriculum, per se, cannot be considered to be an instrument which guarantees the best possible education. In some instances, it may actually hinder a particular student's progress by requiring him to take courses of questionable benefit to him, possibly because of the manner in which they are taught. Quite obviously, it is the course content and the instructor's teaching skill rather than the name of the course which determines the contribution that a course makes to the over-all educational process of a student.