Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1975 Page: 12 of 16
sixteen pages : ill. ; page 16 x 11 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 12 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1975
Baylor's Graduate School Offers Foreign Employment Opportunites
WACO - A new degree of-
fered through Baylor
University's Graduate School is
designed to enable Baylor
students to seek job op-
portunities in foreign countries.
The master of international
management (MIM) degree
program is an interdisciplinary
program combining courses
taught in Baylor's Hankamer
School of Business, political
science department and foreign
service program.
Dr. William G. Toland,
Baylor associate dean of
faculties and dean of the
graduate schooj, said the MIM
degree was initiated because
"more and more of our students
are having jobs made available
to them if they have some
background in the politics,
sociology and culture of two or
more foreign countries and if
they are proficient in a foreign
language.
"Most of these openings,"
Toland said, "are in the
management area. We felt that,
by combining foreign service,
political science and business
courses, that we could come up
with an advanced degree to
better prepare our students for
Kika Elected
To Ag
Chairmanship
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Rep.
Kika de la Garza, ranking
majority member of the House
Committee on Agriculture in
the 94th Congress, has been
named Chairman of the
Agriculture Subcommittee that
oversees all functions of the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
The Chairman of the Com-
mittee is Rep. Tom Foley of the
State of Washington. He suc-
ceeded Texas Rep. W.R. (Bob)
Poage of Waco, removed from
the Committee Chairmanship
by Democratic House Caucus
action, but who was elected
Vice Chairman by vote of the
Committee on a motion
proposed by Rep. de la Garza.
The responsibilities of the
subcommittee headed by
Congressman de la Garza have
been enlarged this year to in-
clude jurisdiction over all
foreign agriculture programs;
general oversight over com-
plete USDA operations;
analysis of functions of
proposed programs and
regulations; and jurisdiction
over investigations of depart-
ment policies, personnel and
areas under jurisdiction of the
Agriculture Committee.
The South Texas
Congressman also was elected
by Agriculture Committee
members to serve on the Cotton
Subcommittee, which has
jurisdiction over proposed
lfcfcislation concerning cotton,
and to the Conservation and
Credit Subcommittee, which
deals with soil and water
conservation, small watershed
programs and agriculture
credit in general.
"My assignment on the
Agriculture Committee and the
named subcommittees gives
me an improver! opportunity to
better serve our South Texas
area." Congressman de la
Garza said. T will do
everything I can to take ad-
vantage of that opportunity."
these job opportunities."
Toland said that Baylor is the
only college or university in
Texas to offer such a degree at
the graduate level.
"If a student can handle a
foreign language," he said,
' and has a background in the
political life of a particular
country, with whatever
business and management
skills he is able to develop
through our program, he will be
better able to deal with
government figures in
negotiating business deals and
in discussing the far-reaching
implications of business
decisions with people in that
country."
Job opportunities for students
with training in international
management include staff
positions with the U.S.
Department of State and other
governmental departments and
agencies with overseas
operations, and business
organizations seeking per-
sonnel to work in international
business in the United States
and foreign countries.
Toland said enrollment in the
program, which will begin
during Baylor's 1975 spring
semester, will be limited to
"about 15 to 20 students per
year.
"We have had very good
response to our initial an-
nouncement of the degree
program," Toland said. "We've
had 12 to 15 students ask about it
already.
"This type of program," he
said, "is significant in that it
reflects an attempt on the part
of Baylor to keep its students
abreast of the type of graduate
programs that are being
developed across the country.
The MIM degree will give
students an opportunity to
participate in a program, which
will be needed during the next
25 years at least."
Baylor's MIM degree
program is pre-professional
and practical rather than
research-oriented. The degree
requires 36 hours of course
work with no thesis.
Prerequisites required to
enter the program include the
completion of or knowledge
equal to the completion of six
courses offered through
Baylor's Hankamer School of
Business. Those courses are
Accounting 156, "Survey of
Elementary Accounting";
Economics 150, "Survey of
Economic Principles";
Finance 217, "Business
Finance"; Management 240,
"Fundamental Concepts of
Management"; Marketing 201,
"Survey of Marketing"; and
Statistics 151, "Basic
Statistics," or Psychology 202,
"Statistics."
To be admitted to the MIM
program, a student must either
complete each course listed
above with a grade of C or
better or pass an examination
in each subject area. Students
lacking one or more of these
prerequisite courses may be
admitted to the program by
agreeing to combine a schedule
of non-credit work in these
courses with required MIM
courses.
Another prerequisite for the
program is in foreign language.
Students wishing to enter the
MIM program must demon-
strate a working knowledge of a
foreign language "that is
sufficient to allow conversation
and reading at a level con-
sidered adequate for par-
ticipation in non-English ac-
tivities in the business, social
and political affairs of a host
country."
If a student does not have this
foreign language proficiency,
he may be admitted to the
program with the stipulation
that he will pursue a foreign
language either through
language courses at Baylor,
private tutoring or intensive
study abroad.
Toland said a student's
foreign language proficiency Is
preferred in French, Japanese,
Spanish, Russian, Portuguese,
Italian and "perhaps Chinese."
The final requirement for
admission to the MIM program
is completion of either the
Graduate Record Examination
(GRE) aptitude test or the
Admission Test for Graduate
Study in Business iATGSB).
Requirements to graduate
with a MIM degree from Baylor
include the completion of 18
hours of primary core courses,
six hours of secondary core
courses in business, six hours of
secondary core courses in
political science and six hours
of electives.
Primary core courses include
instruction in accounting,
economics and political
science. Secondary core
business courses provide a
choice among studies in
economics, management and
marketing of various foreign
countries, and secondary core
political science courses in-
clude instruction in in-
ternational law and
organization and the govern-
ment and politics of various
foreign countries.
CWp "I. b Uo
3 I in llw En wdhrf Samcvf
(Aak Our Cm4oman)
WW
VALLEY FEDERAL SAVINGS
THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY'S LARGEST SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
McALLEN . EDIN8URG . PHARR . WESLAC0
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Van Nest, Lloyd A. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1975, newspaper, February 6, 1975; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194497/m1/12/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.