10 Weber Normal College The course is required by the state for a life diploma. Five recitations per week. Winter quarter. Three hours' credit. Methods of Teaching The course in Methods considers the principles of psychology as applied to the various aspects of the teaching process and learning processeconomy in learning, the technique of the recitation, the different lesson types, supervision and direction of study, and in general the factors involved in efficient teaching. It also emphasizes the routine features of the school, the daily program, school discipline. Text: Earhart's Types of Teaching. References: McMurray's Method of the Recitation; Strayer's A Brief Course in the Teaching Process; Bagley's School Discipline, Etc. Winter quarter. Three hours' credit. Economics and Sociology Peter Kasius Earl B. Snell Economics This course gives a comprehensive survey of the field of economics. It is intended to meet the needs of college students who desire some systematic knowledge of the underlying principles governing the production of wealth. Fall quarter. Three hours' credit. Sociology I (Practical Social Problems) The study of modern social problems, including the growth of population, immigration, problems of labor, poor relief, crime and punishment, and community studies recreational, social, cultural and educational, together with the reading and discussion of the latest literature treating of these subjects. Fall and Winter Quarters. Six hours' credit. Fourth year high school students may register for Sociology I. Credit for high school students to be based on the amount of work done. Training and Methods Organization The county schools are the training schools of Weber Normal College. Purpose This part of the school work is conducted expressly as a laboratory in which the student-teachers 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. Announcement for 1919-1920 11 Practice Teaching This 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 Education The 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 Education Views in regard to the rural school are fast changing. The rural school has a distinctive function, and its organization, management, curriculum 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 Aaron W. Tracy English I The 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 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 II The 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 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