Abstract:
In the beginning there was agriculture. And agriculture begot agronomy and horticulture and animal husbandry and rural economy and domestic science. Though there is some doubt about the parentage of the latter. Each of these in turn begot a large and diverse family with grandchildren, cousins, and step-children too numerous to mention.
First, a scope note -something the writers of legal articles do for lawyers so the latter can decide if they wish to read right on. This is an imperfect, historical perspective on the evolution, growth, division, subdivision, occurrence, abandonment and recurrence of subjects which have been taught in agriculture: and on some of the many combinations of these subjects, each of which has in turn been considered indispensible to the proper education of a student of agriculture. It is not an institutional comparative study, but rather an attempt to make some useful observations and generalizations based on my experience at the University of Illinois, and bolstered by a modest amount of delving into the University catalogues of the past 100 years.
Keywords:
evolution of agricultural teaching, curricular genesis
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