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Show 24 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT lessons, planning courses, and making programs, are features of this course. Four hours per week through-out the year. Pedagogy.Required of fourth year students in the Normal course. This course comprises a discussion of the purpose and means of education; training and government; the principles of the various educational systems that have been in vogue, the development of educational thought, showing how the present systems have grown out of those of the past. Four hours per week throughout the year. PSYCHOLOGY AND LOGIC. Psychology. The subjects of consciousness, sensation and 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 study profitable. Halleck's Psychology and James' Briefer Course. Three hours per week throughout the year. Logic.The primary forms of thought, and inductive and deductive reasoning will be studied. Jevon's Logic. Three hours per week, second half year. LANGUAGES. Latin I.The aim in this course is to acquire an elementary knowledge of Latin Grammar and a sufficient vocabulary to read Caesar with some ease. Four hours per week throughout the year. Latin II.Easy selections from Latin authors and an equivalent of four books of Caesar's Gallic War WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 25 are read. Exercises in composition based upon the text are given. Four hours per week throughout the year. Latin III.During the first half year, Cicero's four orations against Cateline, and the oration pro poeta Archia are read. During the last half year, three books of Virgil's AEneid are translated. Exercises in composition are given. Four hours per week through-out the year. German I.-- Kellar's First Book, or Spanhefd, Guerber's Marchen, Gluck Aufcemmersee. Five hours per week throughout the year. German II.-Keller's Second Book of Thomas' Practical Grammar; also practical drill in conversation and composition. Three hours per week throughout the year. German III.Joyne's Meisner or Thomas' (complete.) As in the previous year, special attention will be given to practical conversation and composition. Three hours per week throughout the year. ENGLISH AND LITERATURE. Grammar and Classics.In this course, special attention will be given to the technical study of the principles of English Grammar and to work in composition. The aim is to teach students to become habitual in the use of correct forms of speech. The critical study of one or two selections from a standard English or American author will be included in this course. Buchler's Practical Exercises in English, Whitney's Essentials, or an equivalent. Five hours per week throughout the year. |