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The Department focuses on the growth, management and use of agriculturally important plants, particularly the application of scientific principles, technology and crop management strategies. Its intent is to provide students with a theoretical background as a foundation for a career in horticulture, plant pathology and related fields. Although it considers professional training its primary objective, the Department encourages research through master and doctor of science programs (PACCR, 1986). The Department was created by the 1944 amalgamation of the Departments of Field Crops (founded 1917) and Horticulture (1935). It was the parent of the Department of Genetics, which separated from the Department of Plant Science in 1961 to be located in the Faculty of Science. Heads, Department of Field Crops: 1917-1927 Garnet Homer Cutler; 1927-1932 Robert Newton; 1932-1935 Olaf Sverre Aamodt; 1935-1941 Kenneth William Neatby; [1941-1944] Arthur Gilbert McCalla (Acting). Heads, Department of Horticulture: 1915-1935 George Harcourt; 1935-1944 James Sheldon Shoemaker. Heads, Department of Plant Science: 1944-1951 Arthur Gilbert McCalla; 1951-1961 John Unrau; 1961-1970 William George Corns; 1962 Mary E. Spencer (Acting); 1968-1969 William Peter Skoropad (Acting); 1970-1975 William H. Vanden Born; 1975-1980 Peter D. Walton; 1980-[1982] William Peter Skoropad; 1982-1987 William H. Vanden Born; 1987- Keith Briggs.

This department has undergone a number of discipline permutations, beginning as the Philosophy and Psychology Department, then becoming the Philosophy, Psychology and Education Department in the 1920s, and finally being granted its own department in 1960. Spanning the Faculties of both Science and Arts, its research interests have recently lain mainly in the realm of experimental psychology. It is also associated with the University's interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology. Heads: 1909-1945 John Malcolm MacEachran; 1945-1952 John Macdonald; 1952-1957 Douglas Elstow Smith; 1957-1960 Anthony Manuel Mardiros; 1960-1967 Joseph Russell Royce; 1967- 1969 Thomas M. Nelson. Chairs: 1969-[1986] Thomas M. Nelson; 1986- Eugene C. Lechelt.

Slavic and East European Studies (SEES) was formed in 1982 by the amalgamation of the Department of Slavic Languages and the Division of East European Studies. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures had been created in 1964 from the division of Department of Modern Languages. Its name was changed to Slavic Languages in [1969]. The Departmentþs objective is to maintain the viability of programs leading (from the BA through the MA) to the PhD in Russian Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Ukrainian Folklore, and Slavic Linguistics, and to the MA in East European and Soviet Studies (PACCR, 1987). Heads: 1964-[1968] Orest Starchuk. Chairs: 1968-[1969?] Orest Starchuk; 1969-1974 Gunter Schaarschmidt; 1974-1981 Tom M.S. Priestly; 1981-1989 Robert L. Busch; 1989- Tom M.S. Priestly.

Known as the Department of Soils until 1949, the Soil Science Department promotes good stewardship of soil resources through teaching, research and extension. It administers the Alberta Soil Survey (established 1921), the Breton Plots (1930) and the Alberta Institute of Pedology (1968) (PACCR, 1988). Lecturer "Soils I": 1914-1919 Adolph L.F. Lehmann. Heads: 1919-1947 Frank Archibald Wyatt; 1947-1959 John Dawson Newton; 1959-1969 John A. Toogood. Chairs: 1969-1974 John A. Toogood; 1971-1972 Stephen Pawluk (Acting); 1974-1979 Stephen Pawluk; 1979-1989 William B. McGill; 1984-1985 Marvin J. Dudas (Acting); 1989- James A. Robertson.

The Department is a centre of work in northern ecology and physiology, and has contributed to the study of teleost fish, reproductive physiology and behaviour, and the ecology of parasites. Research facilities include a departmental museum, biological stations throughout Alberta, biological stations and the Bamfield Marine Station on Vancouver Island in association with the Western Canadian Universities Marine Biological Society. The Department offers a program in palaeontology jointly with the Department of Geology. Heads: 1921-1956 William Rowan; 1956-1959 Richard Birnie Miller; 1958-1960 John Ralph Nursall (Acting); 1961-1964 Donald Murray Ross; 1964-1969 John Ralph Nursall. Chairs: 1969 John Ralph Nursall; [1970-1974] William A. Fuller; 1974-1978 John Ralph Nursall; 1978-1983 Fu-shiang Chia; 1983- Richard E. Peter.

This interdisciplinary graduate program, which began in 1968 under the auspices of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, offered a two-year MA designed to meet the need for people trained in the principles and practices of urban and rural community development in Canada and abroad. The program was under the supervision of the Interdepartmental Committee on Community Development, until 1976 when it became a division under Interdisciplinary Studies. In 1982 it was determined that a need no longer existed for the program, and it was discontinued. Coordinators: [1968]-1975 Glen Allenby Eyford. Directors: 1975- 1981 Glen Allenby Eyford; 1981-1982 Ahmad Sami Abdel Mohsen.

Zoologist, Marine biologist, 1914-1986. Donald M. Ross came from Cambridge University in 1961 to join the University as professor and head of the Department of Zoology. In 1964 he was named Dean of Science, a position he held until 1976. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1979. A marine biologist, his research focused on the biological behaviour of marine animals and colour changes in fish. He was instrumental in the establishment of Bamfield Marine Research Station on Vancouver Island in 1970. His films of marine animal behaviour have been shown at universities throughout the world.

Author, 1927- . Mrs. Sheppard, daughter of Karl A. Clark, oil sands pioneer, is the author of Oil Sands Scientist: the letters of Karl A. Clark, 1920-1949 (University of Alberta Press, 1989).

Mathematician, Administrator, 1916-1991. Dr. Max Wyman joined the University staff in 1943 as a mathematics lecturer. He became a full professor in 1956, Chair of the Department of Mathematics in 1961, Dean of Science in 1963, Vice-President (Academic) in 1964 and president of the University in 1969, which position he held until his retirement in 1974. In 1976 Dr. Wyman was appointed University Professor. Other areas of service included work on various commissions, including the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission and the Board of Review for Provincial Courts in Alberta (Kirby Commission). He also served as Chair of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, 1974-1979.

Educator, Administrator, Teacher, 1890-1969. After a varied teaching career in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Herbert E. Smith was appointed assistant professor of Philosophy at the University in 1929. Following a wartime leave of absence, he served as Director of Summer Session (1945-1949). In 1949 he was granted a full professorship, and from 1950 until his retirement in 1955 he was Dean of the Faculty of Education. He also taught as a special lecturer in Psychology from 1935 to 1950. Under his deanship, the education faculty expanded its teaching program to become a centre for graduate study and research.