Show Pass Up Home Economic Classes Dean of Women's Survey Discloses By Helen Kuhre The University of Utah women graduates educated in homemaking and was answered in a recent survey conducted by Dean Myrtle who discovered that women have lit- tie interest in courses essential to the preparation of an intelligent that their interest in citizenship and cooperative living is more offerings in the various departments of the university make it possible for a young woman who chooses wisely to achieve all the important objectives in her Findings of Survey But to do this she would have to be a young woman of extraordinary maturity of or she would have to have the guidance of very thoughtful and wise for our elective system and our group requirements make it possible for a student to be graduated with very limited Miss Austin concerning the findings of the After scrutinizing the patterns for the last two years in the School of Arts and Sciences and the department of elementary Miss Austin found these In both departments the percentage of students taking classes in the two groups was more encourage-ing for the year of but the number of students taking courses in child food preparation and family relationships fell Show Little Interest is surprising that young women show so little interest in courses essential to the preparation of an intelligent Especially is it surprising that such a small percentage elect courses in nutrition and child for these courses may be counted toward filling the biological science group 1943 not one girl in elementary education had had a course in Four of the prospective teachers in the 1944 class had taken This shows some improvement over the preceding Miss Austin She feels the university might well consider the possibility of making some home-making courses Figures taken from classes dealing with citizenship are more encouraging than those on choices in But the figures also show that fewer than half of the young women in the survey had ever taken courses in Know as Voters shouldn't they know something about domestic and international economic Dean Austin as purchasing agents for their families shouldn't they know something of consumer particularly am not satisfied with the kind of education girls are electing for themselves at It to me we should improve both our curriculum requirements and our advisory Miss Austin |