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conference room, offices and a multipurpose classroom, equipped with a portable demonstration kitchen, are additional features of the Coyner Building.

Built in 1960, the Worthy Johnson Crafts Home Management House is located across the street from Ruffner. Senior home economics majors live for one-half semester here, gaining experience in the management of modern homes and families. The combination of the Crafts and Coyner structures provides the department with excellent facilities for the teaching of home economics.

The Department of Music is located in Wygal Music Building which opened in 1970. It is centrally air-conditioned and contains a 200-seat recital hall, classrooms, offices, a listening laboratory, rehearsal room, sound-proofed individual studios, 36 practice rooms, a recording studio, and a Green Room for afterrecital receptions. Among the various types of instruments available are 42 pianos, 24 electronic pianos for class instruction, a Schlicker two-manual studio organ; and a Wilhelm, a Beckerath, and two electronic practice organs, Other equipment includes two Steinway grand pianos, two Mason and Hamlin grand pianos, two Baldwin grand pianos, and a Sperrhake two-manual harpsichord, all types of string, reed, brass and percussion instruments, a library for recordings and music, and a separate music education curriculum library, as well as an extensive collection in the college's Lancaster Library.

Within the Fine Arts Complex, and centrally air-conditioned, the Bedford Building houses the Department of Art. Special features of this structure include individual studios for painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, print making, art education, crafts, as well as facilities for the teaching of photography. A spacious exhibit gallery displays the works of various well-known artists throughout the year. An auditorium, having a capacity of 17 6 seats,.is available for lectures and films. A patio was constructed in 1972 providing an outdoor facility for sculpturing and ceramics instruction.

Several facilities are used by the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Iler Gymnasium, immediately south of Coyner Building, contains a gymnasium with regulation basketball court, classroom, faculty offices, and storage space for equipment. An athletic field and two tennis courts are adjacent.

French Gymnasium, east of Ruffner Hall, contains basketball courts with spectator gallery, a swimming pool, classroom, research and teaching laboratory, faculty offices and locker-shower rooms. It opens onto four illuminated tennis courts and a second athletic field.

A dance studio is located in French Building. Fencing classes are conducted in Barlow Building to the rear of French. Instruction in golf is given at the golf course at Longwood Estate, while instruction in bowling is presented at the bowling alley in the Lankford Student Uniori building.

The Wynne Campus School, housing a self-contained plant for elementary school children from kindergarten through seventh grade, was completed in September 1970. Circular in design, each classroom opens on one side into a multi-purpose gymnasium-librarymusic-auditorium room and on the other side to out-of-doors physical education and recreational facilities. It is air-conditioned, electrically heated, and equipped with the most modern teaching aids for the 200 students enrolled.

Observation of elementary teaching methods employed at the Campus School supplements the student teaching experience of college students majoring in elementary education. The school is situated at the southernmost end of the campus. Classes conducted in the building may be monitored elsewhere on campus by means of closed-circuit television.

Student Teaching Centers

The public schools in the counties adjacent to Farmville, the Danville City public schools, the Colonial Heights City public schools, the Lynchburg public schools, the South Boston City public schools, and the Appomattox County, Charlotte County, Chesterfield County, Fairfax County, Halifax County, Henrico County, Prince Edward County, Prince George County public schools, and Richmond and Roanoke City schools cooperate with the College in making facilities available for student teaching.

These schools are well equipped with laboratories, libraries, cafeterias, and workrooms. The facilities include teachers who are well qualified as supervising teachers.

The College program and the program of student teaching are coordinated through the Department of Education and Psychology. The College assists students in locating housing in these centers.

The College Year

The college year consists of a regular session, including two semesters of 15 weeks each, and a summer session. The summer session for undergraduate and graduate students consists of a tenweek session divided into two five-week terms. The ten-week summer session makes it possible for an undergraduate student to complete a degree program in three calendar years as compared with the traditional four academic years generally required to complete such a program. Both undergraduate and graduate classes during the summer are scheduled for five days a week.

Commencement

Commencement exercises are held once a year, in the spring. Those students completing a degree program between commencements will be given a letter certifying that they have fulfilled all requirements for graduation. They will receive diplomas at the next spring commencement.

Graduating seniors must buy or rent from the college book store the caps, gowns, and hoods required for commencement exercises.

Accreditation

The College is fully accredited as a professional school for the undergraduate training of teachers and as a comprehensive college. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and