| Show u. u Extension Work Covers Wide Wd Field d n By DeVan Shum a Are you a housewife who wants to learn about anthropology so you can talk intelligently about the subject with your husband Or are you a prison inmate desiring knowledge of psychology in order to study your fellow rellow inmates If you are either of these you ou may enroll in the University of Utah extension divisions division's correspondence correspondence corre corre- courses Under supervision supervision supervision super super- vision of Dr I. I O. O Horsfall is perhaps the m most o 0 s t diversified group of students ever known The students include a woman who says she became a successful author as a result of home study with the university prison inmates from Pennsylvania and Arizona state penitentiaries Ii hot hotel o t e elman- elman I managers managers man man- agers laborers and many other average Americans wanting to improve their positions Of the 1619 students enrolled in inthe inthe inthe the courses are veterans of orld World War Var II 1301 are vets non-vets and 32 are still serving with the U. U S. S armed forces somewhere in inthe inthe inthe the world Women ar are In the majority Inthe Inthe in inthe the courses with 57 or enrollees enrollees enrollees en- en while men lag behind with only taking the courses According to Dr Horsfall this is due to the large number of women who either never did go to college or broke off their college education tion to get married The t tedious e d i o 0 u s but necessary courses English I II and III are arc the most popular of the ISO different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent courses An interesting fact I is that 76 students are led in inthe inthe in the special course Naturalization tion which the university university- university university-exten- i sion slon division offers in cooperation ion 1 with the U. U S. S Department of im Im- Im- Im migration The Thc mail which swamps the ex extension extension ex- ex tension division secretaries daily includes letters from ny m-ny foreign countries People in 35 states stAte of the nation take courses and 28 counties of Utah are represented in the files With ith the exception of Utah Neada Nevada Ne Ne- vada ada has the highest registration in the thc courses with 10 1 entries Strangely enough far-away far North Carolina comes second with exactly exactly exactly exact exact- ly registrants and California I is third with 66 Idaho is in fourth place with a mere 35 subscribers to the courses Many students who have not yet completed their high school educations educations educations are enrolled in the courses In cooperation with the boards of education in Utah counties the extension division can help people receive their diplomas The official name of the course Is Home Study generally and it uses books authored by University of Utah professors |
