Architecture
Education
EPsy 407G
Developmental Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
Students can take more than a few classes on the problems and
stages of childhood and adolescence. But how many times do they get
the chance to take a class dealing with the social and psychological
problems of adulthood and aging?
This area, agrees Frances Scott, director of the Oregon Center for
Gerontology, is vast and complex. But she believes students and
adults can learn much about the problems inherent in becom
ing “mature.”
A class taught this spring, Developmental Psychology of
Adulthood and Aging, will, according to Scott, take a look at what
constitutes “normal” or “successful’adulthood. But the course, taught
from 11:30 to 1:20p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, will also examine some
of the problems and conflicts encountered by adults and seniors. These
would include life reviews, middle-age anxiety, widowhood, senility,
and retirement.
The course will also look at alternate forms of family life: Singles,
homosexual families, communes and cohabitation. A text will be the
primary reading, supplemented by articles from Psychology Today
and Transaction.
Tom Sowa
Simplified gardening
— how to make things grow
I,A 401 -The Spring Garden
LA 432G-The Garden
LA 326 -Plant Communities and Environments
LA 358 -Landscape Maintenance
This term the department of Landscape Ar
chitecture is opening its doors to those non-majors who
would like to know a little more about the relationships
between the plant-world and that of man. Four courses
head the list; each one requires progressively more
knowledge on the subject by the student.
Starting from ground level, (pardon the pun), The
Spring Garden.taught by Wallace “Mack” Ruff, will
follow the format of a “forum for gardening problems.”
The course will involve the theory and practice of
various gardening techniques on the University garden
plots. 'These are visible from the back porch of Mur
phy’s. i Openness is one of the key factors in the format
of the course and students will be able to investigate
everything from the problems of organic vs. inorganic
gardening to basic plant propagation. All in all, this
course proves to be a good selection for the beginning
gardener.
Although somewhat restricted in size, (25 students),
The Garden taught by department head George Jetty,
offers an excellent opportunity for the landscape as well
as the non-majoring gardener to become familiar with
the beautiful plants around one’s home, town, and
countryside. Basically this course deals with plants and
their uses, with special time allotted to flowering plants,
their culture, and the inherent problems that commonly
plague the home-gardener. Student participation in
class discussions is highly stressed, and an array of
hand-outs (no text), will give the student a valuable
resource to help keep his or her garden beautiful.
This term, Ken Knapp of the Landscape Ar
chitecture department will be teaching the course. Plant
Communities and Environments. The course involves
the study of Oregon’s indigenous plants in their native
environment, as well as their relationships with each
other. Plant identification, soil indicators, ecosystems
and ecotones will follow as the basic course contennt.
The class will travel as a group from the Oregon coast to,
(gas permitting), places in Eastern Oregon, as they
observe the plants that exist in Oregon’s rugged land
scape.
For the advanced gardner, the department offers
the course Landscape Maintenance.Ruff will preside
over the course, covering such subjects as advanced
methods of propagation, grafting, hybridization, land
scape problems, with soil structures and the like. Field
trips to various nurseries will familiarize the student
with nursery maintenance and operation. The class will
have more of the formal qualities than actual practical
experience demonstrated in, The Spring Garden. "Hiis
class is only open to the advanced student and the course
is especially directed to those who have already com
pleted one term of Maintenance. If you have any
questions, or if you need further information, see Knapp,
Ruff or Dan Heims.
Dan Heims
Arch 407
Environmental Perception and Response
Are you interested in assessing the current en
vironmental research on the feasibility of a no-growth
economy? If so, Environmental Perception and
Response (Arch 407) will provide you with the op
portunity to discuss the envionmental policy changes
this would entail from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The class, taught by Trudy Cooper, is the second
term of a two-term sequence designed for anyone
seeking an evaluative basis for understanding present
environmental issues and approaches to their resolution.
While participants in the winter term class designed this
quarter’s class, it should be emphasized that winter
term’s course is not a prerequisite for this term’s class.
Course format will be seminar-discussion. Speakers
will be utilized when appropriate. Students will be asked
to do projects on research or observation of local or
community involvement in environmental policy for
mulation or education.
Enrollment is limited to 15. Those interested in
taking the class should contact Trudy Cooper at her
office, 815 PLC.
Deborah Peterson
Journalism
So you can’t read your notes?
Personal Shorthand
A briefhand course is being offered during spring term at Lane
Community College. This is the note-taking system discussed in
Journalistic Writing J250 and one in which the 26 letters of the
longhand alphabet are used. Registration at LCC will begin March 12
in the main gym.
The LCC class is called Personal Shorthand and is taught by
Marilyn Sherry. The class is offered through the regular LCC day
program and through the adult education program at night.
The adult education program will offer Personal Shorthand from 7
p m. to 10 p.m Wednesdays in 206 Business. The class begins March
27,1974. The cost is $14 for 10 weeks of instruction.
The day program is offered from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday starting March 25. A University student would be
required to register for credit at the $9.50-per-credit-hour rate. The
daytime course is offered for variable credit of one, two or three
hours. In other words, you can exit at any time depending upon
arrangements for credit. If you are interested in the daytime course,
check with one of the special counselors listed under notes on page 8D
of the spring schedule. The term line number and section number are
1065-01-108. It is possible to audit the daytime class for $5 per credit
hour. However, arrangements must be completed with the instructor
after registration closes if you wish to audit.
This instruction is recommended for journalism students. Sherry
is well acquainted with the Personal Shorthand system. If journalism
students need a textbook for the course, ten copies are available from
Dean Rea in 303B Allen.