WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC
GEOLOGY.
Professor Watson.
Adjunct Professor Grasty.[3]
Mr. Taber.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and the equivalent of one year's work
each in General Chemistry and General Physics.
There are five courses in this School as organized at present.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Geology.—A course of three (3) lectures
per week and nine (9) additional hours per week for laboratory and
field work, and private study, throughout the year. The divisions
of Dynamical, Structural, and Physiographical Geology are covered
in considerable detail. Special emphasis is given the common rockforming
minerals and rocks, building stones and ores. Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, 12-1. Laboratory. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
10-12, 1-2. Brooks Museum. Professor Watson.
Term Course: Second Term: Determinative Mineralogy.—A
practical study of mineral species by means of blowpipe analysis.
The object of this course is to gain familiarity with the common
minerals and facility in their identification. Six hours laboratory
work per week, winter term. Hours by appointment.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: General Economic Geology.—Course 1B (or its equivalent)
prerequisite.—This course is designed to give a general but
comprehensive account of the origin, nature, distribution and uses
of the metallic and non-metallic products, with especial reference to
those of the United States. Lectures, collateral reading, laboratory
and field work to the amount of twelve (12) hours per week throughout
the year. Hours by appointment.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Advanced Economic Geology.—Lectures, laboratory
and field work, reading, reports and theses. Primarily for graduates.
Open to those students who have had Course 3C or its equivalent.
This course is designed to supplement Course 3C by giving advanced
students an opportunity to follow out more thoroughly special
topics in mining geology. The course will necessarily vary with
the needs of the individual student. Hours by appointment.
Course 5D: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians.—
Designed primarily for graduates. Open to those students who have
had Course 3C or its equivalent. In this course the mining geology
of the region, especially that of Virginia, is covered in considerable
detail. Excursions to various parts of the region will be taken
and individual reports required. Original investigation of an assigned
area, based upon field work, is required of each student.
Hours by appointment.
