Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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108 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE character and operations, and the forces, subjective and objective, which are at work tending to change its structure. PEDAGOGY See same, in the College of Literature and Arts, p. 53. PHILOSOPHY The work in this department includes' history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and logic. The object of their courses is primarily threefold.. 1. To meet the wants of those students who desire to specialize in this department. 2. To give those who desire a more general knowledge of these subjects, some familiarity with the sphere of philosophical speculation and with the philosophical method as applied to the principles and presuppositions of the various sciences. 3. To show the relation of philosophy to practical life and the value of these studies as means of general culture. PUBLIC LAW AND ADJ1INISTRATI0N See same, in the College of Literature and Arts, p. 54. PSYCHOLOGY The aim of the work in this department is to furnish the student, largely by means of inductive study and laboratory methods, a knowledge of the laws according to which mind develops, and the influence of environment upon this development. Throughout the courses an effort is made to put psychology upon an exact basis as a natural science. The elementary forces of mentality as exhibited in infant life are carefully studied with a view to determine some of the components of the adult mind. A comparative study of the mental life of animals is undertaken with a view to throw some light upon the morphology of mind. The mental life of defectives and pathological states of mind are discussed in their relations to the normal type. The advanced laboratory work is of a nature to develop a spirit of independent research on the part of the student. The relation of psychology to the physical biological sciences is kept in view, so that the student may be assisted in his endeavor to bring the manifestations of mind and matter into a related whole,
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