UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL

Office of the Dean

Dr. Fe. C. Allen
Department of Physical Education
University of Kansas

 

My dear Dr. Allen:

I am writing you concerning a possible graduate program
for students who wish to become teachers of physical education in
the public schools.

We offer a degree which we say has a major in education,
but it is much more a combined degree with education and another
subject along the line which the student expects to teach. This
combined degree permits the student to take fifteen hours of work
in a department other than education writing the thesis on some
problem in connection with the teaching of that subject with the
remaining ten hours in education.

I am wondering whether such a vrogram as this might be
feasible in physical education. It wonld require that the gtudent
have available fifteen hours of worthwhile work for graduate crédit
in physical education. These courses should be vlanned, naturally,
to fit the student to do his job as a teacher in the public schoolss
Part or perhaps even most of these fifteen hours might bé in courses
open to juniors and seniors as well as graduates, but I believe there
should be at least a few hours in courses open to graduate students
only. These might well be in the form of a seminar in some particular
problems in connection with the teaching of physical education.

It is at least thinkable that this program might be
started next summer by offering one or two courses for graduate
credit in physical education which the student might take together
with one or two courses in education. The following summer there
should be available more work in physical education so that the
student in the couree’of four summers could obtain at least fifteen
hours of work in physical education.

I do not feel qualified to judge whether the department
is prepared to undertake this additional work at the present time
nor do I have any definite suggestions as to the type of courses to
be offered for graduate credit. You and the other persons in your
department are fully capable of answering those questions. I am
simoly submitting my suggestions for consideration by the department.

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