Imperial Valley press., 1913-05-31
GE1Ilnle N tOucA1|oN
BY UNITED STATES MAIL

Any one who lives within reach Of
a postOfflce or rural mail delivery
route may now become student OF
the University of California.
Plans have just been announced for
a new correspondence instruction de-
partment. This means that without
leaving home, and without giving up a
means OF livelihood. any man or w0-
man may have course in the Uni
versity OF California in practically any
subject desired. There are no entrance
examinations, no barriers against those
whose early schooling was limited. Col
lege graduates and those who gradu-
ated only from district school, can
both find profit, according to their own
personal interests and needs The
correspondence teaching will be done
| by professors and instructors who
teach the same special subjects to stu
dents at Berkeley, and the work will
be thorough and real.
This new university movement means
that every ambitious person has op-
portunity to equip himself better for
his own special occupation, to prepare
himself for greater efficiency and
greater responsibilities, to freshen and
broaden his outlook on life, to enrich
his general mental requirements and
personal culture
Every one who wants to be a cor
respondence student is asked by the
university to write at once to the cor
Irespondence instruction department and
to tell what he wants to study Actual
teaching by mail will begin with the
opening Of the new university year,
next August. Meanwhile the university
is corresponding with prospective stu
jects will be most in demand, and in
order to plan courses, teachers and
work to meet real desires and needs
Two or three hours a week avail
able for such study will make it worth
students while to undertake Uni
versity Of California correspondence
course. Those with more time to use
may do more work and progress faster
but no one need lose the chance be-
cause Of lack Of time. There is no
one who could not find two or three
hours a week to better his education
The subject chosen, the correspond
|ence student will receive from the uni
versity an outline Of the first lesson
When he has done the reading, or
drawn the drawings, or performed the
experiments, or done the field work
or written the paper which the les
son calls for. he will send his answer
to the lesson letter, and receive in
return a corrected paper and a letter
Of criticism on his work and of counsel
for his guidance. together with the
next lesson. Ordinarily 20 lessons will
constitute a course, and probably most
students will do one lesson every week.
The work and reading suggested will
be such that there will be opportunity
for just as much extra time to be in
vested as the student may desire. And
one course may follow another, on into
new fields, and into higher and higher
work, just as long as the student
wishes. AS is the case with the other
state universities which have devel-
oped correspondence instruction, a
nominal fee will be charged, to help
defray the cost Of this new university
undertaking, and to assure the earnest
ness Of the correspondence students,
but this fee will be less than is charged
by. for instance, the University Of Wis
consin Iowa or Kansas for such cor
irespondence instruction. Such instruc-
| tion means that every student has eX
pert guidance, is enabled to make his
| work count, is saved from misdirected
effort, and given the stimulus Of friend
~ interest, aid, and counsel, and Of re-
sponsibility for the finishing Of tasks
undertaken.
| The machiniSt can enroll for a course
| in engineering design, the carpenter for
architectural draughting, the steel
engineer for courses in engineering
| specialties. The factory employe can
study chemistry or mechanics. The
fruit grower can study horticulture,
the stockman scientific principles of
breeding and feeding, the land owner
| irrigation, agricultural engineering or
plant breeding. The physician can ac-
| quaint himself with new development
Of pathology and bacteriology which
| have come into practical use since his
| days in a medical college. The young
lawyer can develop his knowledge of
some particular field. and prepare him
self to be an expert in a legal spe-
| cialty. The clergyman can study philo-
sophie movements or history or social
betterment. The artist may study par
ticular movements in art, or the prin-
ciples of design, the musician the ma
terials and the history of his art.
The teacher will find opportunity to
come abreast Of the times in the spe-
cial subjects he or she is teaching, to
have the stimulation Of being brought
by expert advice into touch with the
latest discoveries and freshest contri-