The standardization of courses in field crops
1921
Wentz, J.B.
In general, there is a tendency on the part of educational institutions toward the standardization of work offered. How far we can go in the standardizaiton of courses in agricultural subjects may be questioned but certainly all will agree that a great deal could well be done in this direction. At the present time there are listed in the catalogs of the agricultural colleges of the United States 133 differently named courses in field crops. When these courses are classified according to ground covered the number is reduced to 47, and of the 47 only 20 are offered by more than one or two colleges. Almost any field crops department of the country should be able to select all its courses from among this comparatively small group of 20. Table 2 shows that there is great irregularity in the positions of the field crops courses in the college curricula. Table 3 shows great variation in the number of hours devoted to the courses by different colleges. There is some excuse for this variation due to differences in importance of some crops in different parts of the country, but even here there probably could be more uniformity.
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