A History of the Speech and Drama Department at North
-7R A HISTORY OF THE SPEECH AND DRAMA DEPARTMENT AT NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY AS IT RELATES TO GENERAL TRENDS IN SPEECH EDUCATION 1890-1970 THESIS Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE By Mildred J. Sandel, B. S. Denton, Texas August, 1971 Sandel, Mildred J., A History of the Speech and Drama Department at North Texas State Universit a it Relates to General Trends in peeh Education LS-97. Master of Science (Speech and Drama) August, 1971, 189 pp., 6 tables, 3 appendices, bibliography, 53 titles. Training in oral discourse has been offered in a virtually continuous and increasingly diversified curriculum from the founding of North Texas as a private normal college to 1970. The purpose of this study is to compare the training given at North Texas State University to national trends in speech education. The hypothesis for such a study is that historical comparisons may be beneficial to scholars as in- dicative of those methods that have met with the greatest success. The thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter I introduces the study, establishes the format of the remaining chapters, and gives the historical trends in speech education in the United States. The historical trends were established from publications of the Speech Association of America, where they were available, and from publications of the regional associations or records of representative institutions of higher learning when no composite studies existed. 1 2 The trends in speech education at North Texas were re- corded from the official records of the university, including Bulletins, Capus Chat, Yucca, records of the Registrar and official records of audits, faculty committees, and similar reports.
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