Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
South Dakota Agricultural College. Commerce Department
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
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Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Also known as Commercial Science, the Department of Commerce existed at South Dakota State University in the early 1900's and disappeared from college catalogs around 1903. The Department of Commerce included secretarial courses, and commercial, or business courses. The secretarial courses included business law, commercial methods (letter writing, filing, etc.), typewriting, money and banking, shorthand, accounting, and other general courses. The commercial courses included business methods, bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, business law, money and banking, business affairs, commerce and industry and other general courses.