Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1891-1892 [PAGE 95]

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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

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and 2, and who select a zoological subject for the graduating thesis; (4) a year's work (open elective) in systematic zoology, for advanced students only; and (5) a general course of a single term, offered as a minor course in the school of natural science and as an elective to the students of the University at large. 1. General Zoology, Major Course.—It is the immediate object of this major elective course to make working zoologists, and its secondary object to draw from zoological science its distinctive discipline as an element in a liberal education. It is planned with a view to giving to students a wide acquaintance with the methods of zoological research in field, laboratory, and library, and a sound and accurate knowledge of zoological theory and of the leading facts of observation and experiment upon which such theory rests. As it is presumed that all taking this course will have had a major course in botany, the laboratory work of the fall term (on the earthworm and on Hydra) is made an introduction to the special methods of the zoological laboratory. The remainder of the term is given to the Protozoa and Coelenterata, the former of which are studied at length in the laboratory and lecture room in respeot to their structure, physiology, and classification; their relations to plants; and their relations to the organization, embryology, and developmental history of the higher animals. These subjects are used to elucidate and illustrate the general theory of zoology, which is here presented in outline, to be completed and filled in as the work of the course proceeds. The second term is devoted to the morphology, physiology, and general classification of the remaining invertebrates, with principal attention to the Arthropoda. Early in this term a course of lectures on general embryology is given, with principal reference to the development of the earthworm as a type. The laboratory work includes the thorough study, by each member of the class, of an assigned species as a semi-independent investigation, the results of which are presented at the end of the term in a paper and drawings. The third term's work is done on vertebrates, with principal attention in the laboratory to anatomical methods for the larger animals. The work of this term includes also a series of studies made by the class together upon the smaller aquatic animals of the neighborhood, taken as a biological group.