Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1892-1893 [PAGE 112]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

besides basement and attic. There is a spacious, well lighted, central hall, around which, on all sides, are situated laboratory, lecture, and subsidiary rooms, all lighted by an abundance of windows spaced for the best results. On the main floors there are eight laboratories for students' work and four for the professors' private use, four lecture halls, as many office rooms, and the requisite number of cloak rooms and closets. The basement and attic give abundance of room for storage and work, and may be used for laboratory purposes. The building is occupied by the departments of botany, zoology, physiology, mineralogy, and geology. The laboratories for these subjects have extensive equipments and give excellent opportunity for the best instruction and practical work. With these superior quarters and advantages the instruction in natural science will be still more prominent than heretofore in this rapidly growing work of the University. Present provision is also made in the building for the State Laboratory of Natural History, for the office of the State Entomologist, and for the office of the Agricultural Experiment Station.

CLASSIFICATION OF SUBJECTS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATES.

The studies offered in this school are divided into three groups: (i) required studies, (2) restricted electives, and (3) open electives. Under the head of restricted electives both major and minor courses are given, the former the maximum offering and the latter the minimum requirement in their respective subjects. No student may graduate from the school of natural science until he has completed all required courses as given in group 1, and has done at least nine terms' work on one major subject, or twelve terms' work on more than one from group 2; and taken at least minor courses in all the other subjects of this group in which such courses are offered. He must further have received forty full-term credits (including military) for University studies.

GROUP I. REQUIRED SUBJECTS.

French (4, or 1), 3 credits. History (4), or Political Economy German (1, 4), 5 credits. (1), 1 credit. Mathematics (1, 3), 2 credits. Philosophy (1, or 3), 1 credit. Art and Design (4), 2 credits. Military Science (1, 2), 2 credits. Rhetoric and Oratory (1), 2 credits.