42 WEBER COLLEGE Courses of Instruction EDUCATION John Benson 1. Principles of Education. A study of education; meaning, aims, function, and relationship to other agencies and institutions. Recommended for all desiring to teach in secondary schools. Required of all students intending to teach in the elementary grades. Three quarter hours. Autumn. Benson 2. Organization and Administration. A course dealing with: (1) Utah school law and means and agencies by which the law is administered; (2) relationship of federal government to state and local units, as defined by the State Board of Education. Required of students intending to teach in the elementary grades. Three quarter hours. Winter. Benson 3. Elementary School Curriculum: A study of the Utah State Course of Study for the first six grades of the public school. Required of all students desiring to teach in the elementary grades. Five quarter hours. Spring. Benson ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Leland Hans Monson Marian Treseder Read Cluster Monroe Nilsson David R. Trevithick It is recommended that a student pursuing a major in English Language and Literature complete English 39, 40, and 41. It is required that a student who presents for entrance less than the equivalent of twenty-five quarter hours in one foreign language pursue such language until he has earned a minimum of twenty-five quarter hours. Placement Test. Before registration in classes all freshmen are required to take an English placement test. Rhetoric and Composition 1. Rhetoric and Composition. Devoted to a study of the fundamental principles of English composition and to training in the preparation of the research paper. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter. Monson, Read, Nilsson, Trevithick 2. Rhetoric and Composition. Devoted to a study and application of the principles of exposition and argumentation. Three quarter hours. Winter, Spring. Monson, Read, Nilsson, Trevithick WEBER COLLEGE 43 3. Rhetoric and Composition. Devoted to a study and application of the principles of description and narration. Three quarter hours. Spring. Monson, Read, Nilsson, Trevithick 4. Exposition. Restricted to an intensive study of expository composition. Five quarter hours. Spring. Nilsson 5. Argumentation. Critical study of the logical process of thinking and practice in handling of evidence, detecting of fallacies, and presentation of material. Five quarter hours. Winter. Monson 6. Journalism. Designed to equip the student with a knowledge of the fundamentals of journalistic theory and to afford practical training in newspaper and magazine writing and editing. Laboratory experience is had through working with reporters on local dailies and through production of the school paper. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Trevithick 7. Journalism. Continuation of English 6. Two quarter hours. Winter. Trevithick 8. Journalism. Continuation of English 7. Two quarter hours. Spring. Trevithick 9. Narration. Devoted to a study of narrative technique, appreciation of the short story as a literary form, and practice in writing of the short story. Five quarter hours. Spring. Trevithick 10. Poetry. Designed to give training in the appreciation of poetic expression and practices in the art of poetic writing. Five quarter hours. (Not given 1936-1937.) Monson 11. Vocabulary Building. Designed to increase the vocabulary of students. Two quarter hours. Winter, Spring. Nilsson, Trevithick Literature 21. American Literature: New England Group. A study of the major New England poets and essayists and of their immediate followers. Three quarter hours. Autumn. Read 22. American Literature: Metropolitan, Southern, and Western. A study of the spread of literary activity and of the development of the novel and the short story since the Civil War. Three quarter hours. Winter. Read 23. American Literature. American Literature since 1890. Three quarter hours. Spring. Read 25. Children's Literature. A course designed to equip prospective teachers with a knowledge and appreciation of that body of literature whose primary appeal is to children. Five quarter hours. Autumn, Spring, Read