Odessn Collsgo Catalog Rg77-78 T
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
|l -l Odessn Collsgo Catalog rg77-78 t -t n fI I rl I I II --¡tD. I rt? rr ',, I -l :r I l I l I ¡ f l I I I ~ I I I I I Odessa College ... where somebody cares I I\' I I :t I I. Odessa College is • • • a comprehensive community college dedicated to meeting the educational needs of the community. It is responsive to community needs and provides a wide variety of educational services to satisfy those needs ... a proven college dedicated to excellence in all of its programs ... a student-centered college that keeps the personal touch. Students receive indi vidual attention from highly qualified fac ulty and staff who are interested in help ing them to succeed in their educational development ... a progressive college constantly alert to in novative educational techniques and technologies - a college committed to constructive change ... a multi-faceted college with a wide variety of programs in university parallel areas, technical-vocational studies, develop mental courses, personal development studies, and adult and continuing educa tion. This variety assures students that Odessa College can tailor a program specifically to fit their needs ... a concerned college where students are im portant as individuals. It's the place for a student to begin a promising future. Volume Thirty-One Spring 1977 I I Contents I The College 3 Calendar 8 I Admissions 12 Financial Information 15 I Student Services & Activities 2, Academic Information 25 Programs and Curricula 38 College Organization 176 I Index 188 Map 190 I I I Information and regulations printed in this catalog are sub I ject to change. The Board of Trustees and the administra tive staff may expend, delete or I revise programs, courses, or any other information stated in this catalog. I I I I I come more responsible and productive I Odessa College members of our society. Odessa College specifically intends: Odessa College has but one reason for to provide the first two years of college existence- to provide the finest educa and pre-professional programs, pre I tional opportunities possible for all the paring students within a field of study people of the Ector County area. The for further education; comprehensive community college is I dedicated to provide the full spectrum of to offer programs in occupational-tech educational services, limited only by the nical training and provide students with physical and financial resources that are the comprehensive skills and knowl I available. edge required in specialized fields; The open admission policy assures to provide a general educational program each person who has the desire and for all people, preparing them for more I capacity to profit from post-secondary effective involvement in society, as well education an opportunity to learn. Cur as providing opportunities for in ricula and educational services are de creased personal and cultural enrich signed to assist people to realize more ment; I fully their individual potential and thereby to provide opportunities for all adults, in enable them to live richer lives and be- cluding non-high school graduates, I I I I I I I I Odessa College 3 I I who wish to begin or to continue a col Initially housed in temporary quarters lege education; in Odessa High School, now the home of I Crockett Junior High, Odessa College's to offer adults in the community an op first classes were conducted after public portunity to continue their education school hours in the late afternoons and which will result in upgrading their oc I evenings. The college purchased a five cupational skills, cultural enlighten acre plot on the 2500 block of the An ment and personal satisfaction; drews Highway and in 1949 erected Bas to have an educational environment kin Hall as its first permanent structure. I which enables every student an oppor The size of the campus grew to 15 build tunity to maximize his potential ings on a 35-acre plot by 1960. Today the through complete student services; $21 million campus is spread over 80 I and acres and includes some 21 buildings that house more than 115 classrooms and to encourage the use of facilities and laboratories. programs for educational and cultural I purposes by the citizens of the com Passage of a $5,315,000 bond issue in May, 1976, permits the college to enlarge munity. its student facilities significantly, to build History a spacious 80,000-square-foot instruc I tional building, and to purchase addi The history of Odessa College is inter tional equipment. The buildings are woven with growth and progress. A re scheduled for completion in the spring of view of the past reveals a success story of I 1978. a public institution that has maintained Odessa College began as a college of the community college spirit and has the people and for the people who grown by serving the people of Ector created it. The college has maintained I County and the Permian Basin. that philosophy and has developed into a Beginning with 184 students in 1946, comprehensive community college, ded Odessa College's enrollment, programs icated to serving the total educational I and services have grown steadily through needs of the citizens of the Permian the last 30 years. Through the various Basin, as a professional partner with the programs and services offered by Odessa Ector County Independent School Dis College, there are now almost 15,000 en trict and the University of Texas of the I rollments during a single school year. En Permian Basin. rollment in the academic credit courses Quality education and academic excel in the fall of 1976 surpassed 3,600 stu lence have been hallmarks of Odessa Col I dents. During the same semester another lege. As the college has grown, it has 2,700 students were enrolled in adult and sought to attain the highest quality possi continuing education courses. By the ble in all of its educational programs. I time the 1976-77 school year will close More than 20 occupational-technical and the midwinter session, spring semes programs are currently being offered at ter, compact semester, and summer ses Odessa College, and additional ones are sions end, the total number of enroll being planned to meet the needs of citi I ments at Odessa College will approxi zens who want to learn new career skills mate the 15,000 mark. or improve existing job performance. AI- I 4 Odessa College I I most one-half of the college's students University of Texas of the Permian Basin I are enrolled in occupational-technical (UTPB), providing upper level and programs. A wide variety of university graduate studies. On the campus of parallel courses also is offered for stu Odessa College is located the Globe dents planning to finish four-year de Theatre, the most nearly perfect replica of I grees at senior colleges or universities. William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre of Elizabethan England. There are hosts of Odessa College has the excitement and cultural, intellectual and recreational ac exuberance of a young college and the tivities available for the citizens of I quality and experience of a college that Odessa. has been in existence for three decades. The college is dedicated to the challenge The diversified industrial and eco I of innovation and dares to try new proven nomic establishments offer part-time methods that will enhance learning and employment opportunities for students expand the frontiers of knowledge for its who need to earn part or all of their col I students. It also possesses the stable lege expenses. There also are a number maturity of an established college that of part-time jobs on campus for students has developed through the wisdom born who qualify. The healthy economy in the of experience. It is that experience that area also affords good jobs to students I has taught Odessa College to constantly who complete their specified career pro probe for constructive change, satisfied grams at Odessa College and wish to live with nothing but the best. in Odessa. I Odessa College is a mature college Odessa is a growing, progressive city with a youthful spirit. The college is proud where people are friendly and heartily of its heritage, but sees its successful past support the college and its efforts. New I as a challenge for an even greater future. comers find Odessa a good place to live and rear a family, as well as an enjoyable Location place to study and work. I Odessa College is located in Odessa, Texas, a progressive West Texas city of Equal Opportunity over 100,000 people located about mid Odessa College is committed to the way between Fort Worth and El Paso. basic right of all people to have an equal I Odessa is a cultural, recreational, educa opportunity for education or employment tional, medical, retail and wholesale trad at this institution. Every effort will be ing center for a wide region as large as made by the Board of Trustees, adminis I several Eastern seaboard states com tration, and the faculty to defend this right bined. It lies in the Permian Basin, one of and vigorously seek to promote its im the world's greatest oilfields, and is the plementation in all areas of the college. home of the nation's largest inland pet I rochemical complex. Its two hospitals Odessa College will admit as students provide a wide variety of medical services any persons who can benefit from the in for the region. Odessa boasts a daily structional program offered. In addition, I newspaper, three television stations, six it will strive to meet the post-secondary radio stations, and over 150 chu rches.lt is educational needs of its students by the I the site of an upper-level university, the restructuring of new programs, where Odessa College 5 I I such programs will be of benefit to stu Accreditation dents.