Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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DESCRIPTION OF DEPARTMENTS 121 to its present complex structure, to examine the nature of its environment and its adaptation thereto, its present normal character and operations, and the forces, subjective and objective, which are at work tending to change its structure. PEDAGOGY See same, in the College of Literature and Arts, page 64PHILOSOPHY The work in this department includes history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and logic. The object of the courses is primarily threefold: 1. To meet the wants of those who desire to specialize. 2. To give those who desire a more general knowledge of these subjects some familiarity with the sphere of philosophical speculation and with the philosophical method as applied to the principles and presuppositions of the various sciences. 3. To show the relation of philosophy to practical life and the value of these studies as means of general culture. PUBLIC LAW AND ADMINISTRATION See same, in the College of Literature and Arts, page 64. PSYCHOLOGY The object of this department is twofold. The aim is, first, to acquaint the student experimentally with psychic phenomena and to make him familiar with recent literature and standard authorities; and, second, to make contributions to the science itself. For the suitable preparation of the student for higher work, he is from the first required to deal with the subject as an experimenter, and thus given a practical knowledge of the phenomena which he is to handle. The laboratory is well equipped with materials and apparatus for the continuation of this work through a large number of classical experiments upon sensation, which the student is required to conduct himself and of which a careful record is kept.
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