NTE2ua364.xml Guide to the General Extension Service Bureau of Correspondence Courses Course Materials 1959-1973 General Extension Service Bureau of Correspondence Courses Course Materials Finding aid prepared by Mark O'English. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2016 Finding aid encoded by Doug Lambeth. 2016 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Archives 364 General Extension Service Bureau of Correspondence Courses Course Materials 1959-1973 2 linear feet of shelf space 4 boxes 44 course guides Course “study guides,” or syllabi, lectures, and other instructional materials, for a variety of mail-based courses offered by Washington State University. Collection materials are inEnglish.

The State College of Washington’s Extension Service was authorized by the state in 1913, primarily as a means for the college to reach farmers and homemakers who could not come to Pullman. A 1919 reorganization added a focus on non-agricultural extension, the General Extension Service. This department uses a variety of methods to reach students who could not attend the college in person in daytime hours. These included classes offered in other cities, notably Spokane, Tri-Cities, and at various Experiment Stations; night courses; workshops, institutes, and conferences; and correspondence classes offered by mail. The General Extension Service would eventually morph through the Office of Continuing University Studies (1975), Continuing Education and Public Service (between 1982 and 1985); Extended Degree Program (within the Office of Continuing University Studies); Distance Degree Program (2001); WSU Online (2010); and the Global Campus (2013).

The collection consists of “course guides” for a variety of correspondence courses taught by mail through Washington State University. The guides consists of syllabi, lectures, tests, study materials, and other information the students would need to take the course.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by course number.

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions apply.

[Item Description] Bureau of Correspondence Courses Course Materials, 1959-1973

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The materials in this collection were compiled and preliminarily listed on July 3, 1979, by someone with initials P.M.G. They were moved to Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) sometime prior to 2001, but their precise provenance is unknown.

The collection was processed in July, 2016 by University Archivist Mark O’English. A small amount of supplemental readings, not associated with any of the courses in this collection, were discarded in processing. Ten additional course guides which had been individually retained in WSU Publications 83 (General Extension Service) were incorporated into this collection at that time.

A small amount of materials from the General Extension Service can be found in the WSU Publications collections, as WSU 83.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Washington State University. Cooperative Extension Service. Colleges and Universities. Washington (State) 1 1 1971 Architecture 101x--Graphic Communication 2 1972 Architecture 310x--Housing 3 1971 Business Administration 210x--Law and Business I 4 1964 Business Administration 230x--Principles of Accounting I 5 1964 Business Administration 231x--Principles of Accounting II 6 1971 Business Administration 311x--Law of Commercial Transactions 7 1964 Business Administration 360x--Functional Analysis of Business: Marketing 8 1972 Civil Engineering 211x--Statics 9 1968 Communications 220x--Introduction to Journalism 10 1972 Electrical Engineering 261x--Electrical Circuits I 11 1962 English 101x--Intermediate Composition 12 1962 English 201x--English Composition 2 13 1966 English 255x--English Grammar 14 1965 English 421x--Romantic Poetry 15 1962 English 422x--Victorian Poetry 16 1973 English 427x--The English Novel from Defoe to Meredith 17 1965 Entomology 340x--Agricultural Entomology 18 1971 Food and Nutrition 130x--Nutrition for Man 19 1972 French 101x--First Semester French 20 1969 Geography 105x--Fundamentals of Economic Geography 21 1971 History 101x--Europe 1500-1815 22 1971 History 102x--Europe Since 1815 23 1968 History 455x--Political and Social History of the Pacific Northwest 24 undated (between 1945 and 1965) Horticulture 130x--Home Flower Gardening 3 25 1964 Horticulture 220x--Vegetable Crops 26 1963 Horticulture 260x--Home Landscape Design 27 1970 Humanities 101x--An Integrated Course in the Humanities. 28 1961 Mathematics 001x--Elementary Algebra 29 1961 Mathematics 002x--Elementary Algebra 30 1962 Mathematics 101x--Intermediate Algebra 31 1963 Mathematics 102x--Plane Trigonometry 32 undated (1960 or later) Mathematics 104x--Analytic Geometry 33 1972 Mechanical Engineering 210x--Materials and Processes 4 34 1972 Mechanical Engineering 301x--Thermodynamics 35 1968 Music 051x--Intermediate Harmony 36 1960 Music 310x--History of Music 37 1969 Political Science 101x--American National Government 38 1965 Psychology 306x--Industrial Psychology 39 undated (1954 or later) Psychology 350x--Social Psychology 40 undated (1956 or later) Social Studies 007x--A Course in Current World Problems, Geography, and History 41 1959 Sociology 102x--Social Problems 42 1967 Sociology 160x--Contemporary Social Problems 43 1959 Sociology 230x--Criminal Behavior 44 1960 Zoology 061x--Principles of Pest Control