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Show 22 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT and gives an opportunity for the discussion of questions that may arise on practical work of instruction. School management and the methods of teaching the several branches, making programmes and laying out courses of study, form prominent subjects for consideration. Five recitations per week during the last half year. Parker's Talks on Teaching and Herbert Spencer's work on Education. L. F. MOENCH. HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF EDUCATION. History and science of education is required of fourth year students in the four years Normal Course. Five recitations per week during first half year. This course embraces the study of Oriental, Greek, and Roman education and the rise and early development of Christian schools; a careful study is made of the movements of modern educational thought and practice, and the leading exponents of educational ideas and principles. Painter's History of Education. L. F. MOENCH. PSYCHOLOGY. Psychology is required of third year Normal students; three recitations per week during the last half-year. This course deals with the phenomena of mind. The subjects of consciousness, sensation and the nervous system, instinct and habit, emotion and will are discussed. Students of history and literature, as well as those preparing to teach, will find this course to be of value in their studies. Based upon Kirk patrick's Inductive Psychology, and James's Briefer Course. J. G. LIND. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 23 MATHEMATICS. ARITHMETIC. Arithmetic I.Required of all preparatory students. This course presupposes a fair knowledge of common and decimal fractions. The fundamental principles of arithmetic are thoroughly studied including a complete consideration of common and decimal fractions, the metric system of weights and measures, measurements and percentage. The aim is to give a preparation for Course II. Prince's arithmetic, Nos. V and VI will be the text books used. Five recitations per week through the year. G. N. SORENSEN. Arithmetic II.This course is a complete High School course. Wentworth's High School Arithmetic is the text book used. W. H. LYON. ALGEBRA. Wentworth's Shorter Course in Algebra is the text book used. Supplementary problems in simple and quadratic equtions given. G. N. SORENSEN. Algebra.Hall & Knight's Elementary Algebra completed. W. H. LYON. PLANE GEOMETRY. W. H. LYON. This course includes the general properties of regular polygons, their construction, perimeters, and areas; regular polygons and circles, with problems of construction; maxima and minima, and methods for determining the ratio of circumference to the diameter. The first five books of Wentworth's plane and solid geometry. Required of all scientific and normal students and elective to others. Five recitations per week during the first half year. |