Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 105]

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NATURAL SCIENCE GEOUP

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SUGGESTIONS AS TO CHOICE OF COURSES Students wishing to take major courses in several biological subjects, with the intention of graduating in natural science without a thesis, should take the required subjects of the freshman year together with zoology 2; may follow this in the second year with botany 1, German, physics, and military, each throughout the year; may select for the junior year mineralogy 1, to be followed by geology 1, bacteriology or elementary entomology, embryology, general biology, German, minor physiology, and rhetoric 2, finishing geology 1 in the fall term of the senior year, and completing their course by selecting studies amounting to eight elective credits from the remaining subjects open to them. Numerous variations of this course may readily be arranged to the same general effect. Those wishing to concentrate their major work in zoology only, should take courses 1, 4, and 5 in zoology, beginning with the second term of the freshman year; minor courses in }ihysiology, physics, and botany, in the second year; mineralogy 1 and geology 4 in the third year; and anthropology 1, general biology, and thesis investigation during the senior year. For a zoological course with principal reference to entomology, zoijlogy 2 may be taken instead of 1, and followed by courses 6 and 7, with the omission of course 4 from the above list. The student desiring to specialize in physiology should take zoology 3 and follow it with all the physiology offered, except course 4. His work may be otherwise like that suggested above for the zoological specialist. A special course in botany may be made up on lines similar to those of the special zoological course by taking, instead of major zoology, the botanical courses 1 to 4 in the second and third years, preferably preceded by general biology 1 in the freshman year, and followed by botany 5 (thesis work). Students who desire to make the most of .the offerings in geology are advised to take chemistry in the freshman year, begin their mineralogy in the fall term of the sophomore year, take geology in the winter and spring terms of that year and the fall term of the junior year, take mineralogy 2, or paleontology 1 during the winter and spring terms of the junior year, and the remaining subjects together with thesis investigation (geology 2) during the senior year.