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GENERAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 149 ments of counterpoint, also, receive sufficient attention to give the student a general understanding of the nature of the subject. PEDAGOGY. 1. DIDACTICS.—In pedagogy of university grade, the study of general pedagogy and of the methodology of specific branches can not be dissociated. General principles require to be illustrated by specific examples. On the other hand, specific methods can not be understood without general principles. Therefore, the whole subject is comprised in didactics. In order to preserve unity in the work, the general subject is expounded upon the basis of lectures on six of the minor works of Herbart, which are thus far inaccessible in translation. The works to be read and discussed by each student are assigned with specific reference to his future aims. Fall and winter terms, full study. Professor ECKOFF. 2. SYSTEMATICS.—A full exposition of the system of Herbart on the two-fold basis of that thinker's General Pedagogy and Outlines of Pedagogic Lectures will be presented. The former is accessible in translation. It, substantially, will constitute the text work. The contents of the Outlines being added in lectures will complement this text work. Fall and winter terms, three-fifths study. Professor ECKOFF. 3. SCHOOL GOVERNMENT AND SUPERINTENDENCY.—The fol- lowing topics falling under this course will suffice to indicate its necessarily composite character.—School Law. How Not to Expel a Pupil. Teachers' Meetings and Conventions. Superintendents' Reports. The Teacher's Relation to the Public Press. Plotting an Attendance Curve.—Much attention will be given in this course to the expression of pedagogic thought in speech and writing. Spring term, full study. Professor ECKOFF. 4. THE PEDAGOGY OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES.—With the general object of showing the necessity and value of scientific knowledge and training both for public education and for individual culture, and with the specific object of equipping science teachers for institutions of high-school grade and superintendents for properly supervising science work in lower grades where it is committed to their care, the department of pedagogy offers a course in the Pedagogy of the Natural Sciences, The
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