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courses at the University.
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh CSC,
University president, recently announced
the formation of the psychology
department and the appointment
of its head. Dr. John Santos, formerly
co-director of the Program in Reality
Testing, Menninger Foundation, Topeka,
Kans.
The new department, under the College
of Arts and Letters, will be research
and not clinically orientated.
Psychology courses have been taught
for years in the University's philosophy
department and these will continue to
be offered in that department.
Rev. Charles Sheedy CSC, dean of
the College of Arts and Letters, explained
the need for the department as
a recognition "that the philosophical
or Thomistic approach cannot take into
account the modem empirical methods
of studying behavior."
The establishment of an autonomous
psychology department is now possible,
Fr. Sheedy explained, wth funds not
previously available. He cited support
generated by Notre Dame's Challenge
II Program and the participation in
the Ford Foundation's special program
in education.
According to Fr. Sheedy, the new
department mil focus on the experimental,
developmental, personal and
social aspects of psychology. At the
outset, he said, two undergraduate
courses will be offered, normally in the
sophomore year, "Introduction to Psychology"
and "Statistics." He said a
major sequence of studies will begin
in 1966, and a doctoral program ivill
• be established in aboilt five years. He
stressed that the University will seek
to produce psychologists who are primarily
scholars rather than practitioners.
Temporarily the psj'chology department
will occupy the former Architecture
Building which is currentiy imdergoing
extensive remodeling. Eventually,
Fr. Sheedy said, the psychology
department •will move into Wenninger-
Kirsch Biology Hall when a contemplated
Life Sciences Center is erected.
Prof. Santos and Dr. Bobby J. Farrow,
who also joins Notre Dame's psychology
department, have been associated
in the work of The Menninger
Foundation. Santos holds undergraduate
and doctoral degrees from Tulane
.University and has done extensive crosscultural
and Peace Corps research in
Brazil. Farrow, who recently received
a doctorate from the University of
Texas, studied earlier at the Texas College
of Arts and Industry, Washburn
University and the University of
Kansas.
Philosophy Head
Rev. Eman McMullin, a specialist
in the philosophy of science, was named
the new head of the University's philosophy
department in August by Rev.
Theodore M. Hesbuigh CSC.
Fr. McMullin, who joined the Notre
Dame faculty in 1954, succeeds Dr.
Harry A. Nielsen as department head.
Dr. Nielsen will devote his time to
teaching.
A native of Donegal, Ireland, Fr.
McMullin was a visiting professor at
the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
during the past year. Fr. Mc­
Mullin received honor degrees in
physics and theology from Maynooth
College of the National University of
Ireland and was ordained in 1949.
He studied theoretical physics at the
Institute of Advanced Studies in
Dublin, following which he studied philosophy
at the University of Louvain,
Belgium.
His book, The Concept of Matter,
was published by Notre Dame Press in
1963.
He studied the philosophy of science
at Yale University from 1957 to 1959
under a National Science Foundation
grant.
Sandeen Appointed
Prof. Ernest E. Sandeen, a poet and
specialist in American literature, was
recentiy named head of the University's
English department.
Rev. Eman McMullin
Ernest E. Sandeen
Prof. Sandeen was appointed to replace
Prof. Alvan S. Ryan who is leaving
the University to become chairman
of humanities and professor of English
at the University of Massachusetts in
Boston.
Two volumes have been published of
Sandeen's poetry: Antennas of Silence
and Children and Older Strangers. His
poems have also appeared in The New
Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review, and
Commonweal. He is also co-author of
Fifty Years of the American Novel and
American Classics Reconsidered.
An Illinois native, Prof. Sandeen is
a graduate of Knox CoU^e, Oxford
University in England and the State
University of Iowa where he lecoved
Notre Dame Alumnus, Seplembtr-Oetoier, 1965 $