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Show 32 WEBER NORMAL COLLEGE of Weber may get actual school-room experience in the art of teaching. All practice teaching will be under the direction of the director of the Normal department, as well as the County Superintendent and County Supervisors. Practice TeachingThis course counts as a four-hour subject and requires the same amount of outside preparation. All assignments in training will be made by the Director. Fall, Winter and Spring quarters. Eight hours' credit. Principles of EducationThe course in principles will be a discussion of the meaning, aims, methods and materials of education as conditioned by the nature of children and the organization of society. Assigned readings, reports, discussions, etc., will be given. Winter quarter. Three hours' credit. Text: Principles of Educational Practice, Klapper. Rural EducationViews in regard to the rural school are fast changing. The rural school has a distinctive function, and its organization, management, curriculhm, and method must coincide with this function. For this work the rural teacher must have special information and training. This, then, will be the purpose of the course. Text: Rural Life and Education, Cubberly. Spring quarter. Three hours' credit. ENGLISH Professor Edward M. Reid English IThe Composition work is calculated to aid the student to come to himself. It is a course in ideas and aims to provide the student with such a fund of information as will arouse in him a sustained WEBER NORMAL COLLEGE 33 interest in the ways and means of the correct expression of what he feels that he has to say. Class reading and discussion will include material practically from all the great departments of human thought and interest. Daily. Fall and Winter quarters. Six hours credit. English IIThe course in American literature is a study of the literature and through it, of the life of America from the time of Washington to the present. The writings of Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Emerson. Thoreau, Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lincoln, Poe and Mark Twain will be studied carefully daily. Spring quarter. Three hours' credit. CHEMISTRY, GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY Professor J. G. Lind Chemistry I, (General Chemistry)This course is designed to cover the non-metallic elements. The fundamental principles and theories of chemistry will receive special consideration. No previous knowledge of chemistry is required for admission to this course. Students who have pursued a High School course in chemistry will be given advanced work in the laboratory. Two recitations and three hours laboratory work weekly throughout the fall quarter. (12 weeks). Texts: McPherson and Henderson, A Course in General Chemistry and the Laboratory Manual by the same authors. Three hours' credit. Chemistry II, (Genearal Chemistry)This course will be a continuation of Course I. The study of the non-metallic elements will be completed. Chemical |