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What Should be the Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree in Animal Breeding?¹

Regional Swine Breeding Laboratory, Ames, Iowa

Abstract

I shall attempt to express only my own views regarding the question posed by the title given me. The views I shall express are the crystallization of my own experience, limited as it is, working in the field, watching young men, trying to lend encouragement to them, and observing their difficulties.

The Ph.D. degree training is an attempt to train the student to know a great deal about one subject, but also to know enough about basic, sciences to fit specialties into the whole array of modern knowledge and social action. Thus recipients of the Ph.D. degree in animal breeding are not to be animal breeders only, but they are to be also, all-around active citizens.

A system of designated courses of study has proved to be useful to both teachers and students. That is the means through which students and teachers meet and work. These systems or curricula for various degrees are prescribed by colleges and universities.

¹ Talk presented at the Teaching Section at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Production, November, 1952.