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Caption: Course Catalog - 1868
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Illinois Industrial University. 13 Candidates for the course in Military Engineering must sustain the same examinations as those required in the Mechanical Department. The Departments of MINING and METALLURGY, and of CIVIL will embrace the studies usual in such departments, and these studies wiil be arranged in courses as soon as they shall be required. The instruction will comprehend a full set of field exercises with instruments, and excursions to mines, public works, etc. ENGINEERING, The Department of ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY will embrace a full course of instruction in Analytical Chemistry, both qualitative and quantitative, analysis of soils, of animal and vege" table substances, and of minerals, together with the study of chemistry applied to the arts. It will include also a full course of laboratory practice, and such collateral branches of knowledge as may be important or useful. The Department of NATURAL HISTOBY and PRACTICAL GEOLOGY will embrace such courses of instruction as will fit students to become explorers, and collectors or curators of scientific collections, to conduct geological explorations and surveys, or to serve as teachers, or experts, in these departments of knowledge. The course will include practical excursions and surveys, the collection and preservation of specimens, the practical work in the laboratory and cabinets, and the drawing, sketching, etc., necessary for illustrations. T H E COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. The course in this department is designed to fit students to become practical accountants, and successful agents and managers of commercial enterprises. It will embrace a full course of instruction in Bookkeeping in its various books and most improved forms, equal in every respect to that given in the best Commercial Colleges. It will also include a thorough study of all such branches of knowledge as will cast light upon the great phenomena and laws of business and traffic, domestic and foreign ; upon the laws of production, exchange, markets, and currency; and commercial law, commercial usages and history,
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