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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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14-2 UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS. fellowships are required to give instruction in assigned subjects (5 to 10 hours a week) to one class each day during the year. The time remaining is to be devoted to graduate study; and, upon the completion of a prescribed course, a second degree is awarded. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. The University offers a series of lecture courses by members of the Faculty upon a considerable number of the subjects taught by them. The work is similar to that which has become so popular in connection with the great English universities during the last few years. It is an extension of University instruction to people at their homes who cannot attend the institution itself as students, but yet desire the information that such students gain. In the endeavor to make the University doubly useful to the people of the state, the professors hold themselves in readiness to lecture upon invitation in any accessible locality, if consistent with regular duties. The subjects and lectures are the same as at the University, so that there is a real extension of its teaching. The course upon a single subject usually consists of six lectures, one given each week and commonly upon Friday or Saturday evening. For each lecture there is distributed a printed syllabus or outline giving also directions to the best literature upon the subject, and other information. The lectures are preceded or followed by reviews, quizzes, and discussions; and at the end of the course an examination may be held. To those satisfactorily passing such examinations a special certificate is issued in the name of the University, and the proper records are made upon its books. A special series of lectures has been arranged for teachers' summer institutes. These are not intended to take the place of the ordinary instruction given in such institutes, but to present University subjects, by University methods, as far as possible, with all the aids of illustrative and demonstrative equipments. During the year 1891-92 (beginning in January), the following courses have been given: Constitutional History.—Professor CKAWFOKD. (1) Six lectures, at Pontiac, 111.; (2) Three lectures, at the University, for citizens of Champaign and Urbana.
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