Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1886-1887 [PAGE 77]

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College of Natural Science.

FOUETH TEAE.

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1. Laboratory Practice; Mental Science; Physiography. 2. Laboratory Practice; Constitutional History; Logic. 3. Laboratory Practice; Political Economy; Geology.

Students who are candidates for the degree of B. S. in the School of Chemistry must perform the laboratory work as laid down in some one of the prescribed chemical courses. SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY. The School of Natural History is especially intended to provide a general preparation for the professions and business pursuits requiring more of an acquaintance with the methods and facts of science than with those of literature. More specifically, it is designed (1.) To afford a thorough liberal education with a basis in the sciences and the modern languages; (2.) To prepare for the teaching of the natural history subjects either in the higher schools or as a professional specialty; (3.) To lay a liberal foundation in biological work and study for a course in medicine; (4.) To prepare for the pursuit of specialties in zoology, botany, general biology and geology as a scientific career. The natural history course of four years leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science. It is distinguished by unusually full instruction in the biological subjects and in the other modern sciences, combined with a thorough course in French and German. It offers two hours a day for a year in botany, and the same each in zoology and in general or special biology; a term each of entomology, of human anatomy and physiology; of microscopy, and of mineralogy; two terms each of geology and of physics; a year of chemistry; a term each of physiography and of astronomy; a year each of free-hand drawing and of French; five terms each of German and of history; one term each of conic sections, trigonometry, political economy, mental science, and logic; and the equivalent of twenty-nine weeks' work, for one hour a day, in practical English composition and oratory. In zoology, botany, general biology,entomology, geology, microscopy, chemistry, and mineralogy, a thorough course of laboratory work and practice by the students, done under the guidance and criticism of an instructor, is supplemented and developed by lecture and the study of text.