 | University of Virginia record March, 1911 |  |
BIOLOGY.
The summer work in biology at present offered makes provision for
the study of each of the great divisions of the organic world: separate
courses being offered in botany and in zoology. The object
in either case is, first of all, to familiarize the student with the methods
involved in the systematic study of the organization of plants or
of animals; and to give such opportunity for individual work by such
methods on the part of each student, under the guidance of the
teacher, as will enable him or her to carry on similar work elsewhere
independently with confidence and accuracy. A second object of
vegetable or the animal kingdom (as the case may be) as a whole,
in such manner as to impart a clear idea of the relations and significance
of any particular group that may be at any time the subject of
special interest. These ends are sought in each case by the presentation
in the laboratory of a series of representative forms, each of
which is in turn made the subject of careful study as to its organization,
activities, and life-history: and by accompanying lectures, in
which the results of the work in the laboratory are explained and
supplemented, and the relations of the organism in question to the
other forms studied and discussed. Two courses will be offered in
both zoology and botany, a lecture course and a laboratory course,
which may be taken separately but which in each case will be more
profitably taken together. The examinations at the close of the session
in either botany or zoology will cover both the lectures and the
laboratory work.
The Biological Laboratory is admirably equipped with simple and
compound microscopes, microtomes, and other appliances for cutting,
staining, and mounting sections for microscopic study, etc.; and
while the prime object of the courses given will be to teach students
to observe accurately, to record their observations with precision,
and to make correct inferences therefrom, care will be taken to make
them familiar in large measure with the principles of microscopal and
other biological technic.
1. Systematic Botany.—This course is intended to afford to teachers
and others an opportunity to become familiar with the forms of
plant life least generally understood, or most likely to offer discouraging
difficulties to the beginner who undertakes them independently
and unaided. It will consist of synoptical lectures upon the vegetable
kingdom and will be devoted chiefly to the study of seedless (or
"flowerless") plants, supplemented by a brief study of the organization
and life-history of representatives of the seed (or "flowering")
plants. It should be taken in connection with the laboratory course
in botany.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Tuttle. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
2. Structural Botany.—This course will be a laboratory course
parallel with the lecture course above outlined. The following topics
will be studied: use of the microscope and simple microscopic technic;
fern-like plants—a fern, an equisetum, a clubmoss; moss-like plants—
a liverwort, a true moss; plant-cells—structure, growth, modification,
the methods of cell-division; algæ—a representative brown alga, a red
alga, green algæ, especially the more abundant water forms; fungi—
a mushroom, a cupfungus, the more abundant parasitic fungi, moulds
and mildews, yeast; lichens; fission plants—the fission algæ, the bacteria.
Daily, from 9:30 to 12:30. Professor Tuttle. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
3. Systematic Zoology.—The object of this course is first, to
indicate the relationships that exist between the various types that
compose the animal kingdom; and second, to furnish teachers and
others such a knowledge of the chief types of invertebrates and of
certain types of vertebrates as is necessary to form a basis for nature
study and the teaching of elementary physiology. The laboratory
course in zoology should be taken in connection with this lecture
course.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Professor Kepner. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
4. Structural Zoology.—This course is a laboratory course parallel
with the course above outlined. The following topics will be studied:
amœba, paramecium; coelenterates—hydra and others; flatworms;
threadworms, animal parasitism; annelids—earthworm, nereis; mollusks—mussel
or clam; echinoderms—starfish, sea urchin; crustacea—
"water fleas," shrimps, crayfish, crabs; insects—grasshopper, beetle,
bee; chordates—amphioxus, dogfish, frog; fundamental tissues of
animals—the animal cell, cell-division, maturation of the ovum, segmentation
and development.
Daily, from 3:30 to 6:30. Professor Kepner. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
Note.—In addition to the regular fee a laboratory fee of two
dollars each will be charged in Courses 2 and 4.
University Credit.—A student who passes the examination on the
two courses in botany and the two courses in zoology (either in the
same or in consecutive sessions of the Summer Session) on complying
with the requirements for admission to the University of Virginia,
will be entitled to credit for Course 1 B in general biology, or for
the requirements in that subject for admission to the Department of
Medicine. A student who passes the examination on the two courses
in botany under similar conditions, will be entitled to credit for an
equivalent portion of Course 1 B in botany. Subject to the same conditions,
a student who passes the examination on the two courses
in zoology only will be entitled to credit for a corresponding portion
of Course 1 B in zoology.
Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate—Biology,
1, 2, 3, and 4; Special Certificate—1, 2, 3, and 4.
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