For Undergraduates.
Education B1: Biological Foundations of Education.—First term:
Stages and factors of organic evolution. Second term: Heredity and
eugenics. Third term: Educational applications.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours.) Monday and Wednesday, 7:30-9 P. M. Peabody Hall,
Room 2. Professor
Heck.
Education B2: Educational Hygiene.—First term: Measurement, defects,
and hygiene of development. Second term: Hygiene of school
buildings, equipment, and management. Third term: Personal and community
hygiene.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 sessions-hours of electives-at-large.)
Monday and Wednesday, 4:45-6:15. Peabody Hall, Room, 2. Professor
Heck.
Education B3: Secondary Education.—This course is intended primarily
for students who expect to teach, or to occupy some administrative
position in high-school or general educational work. It embraces a study
of the secondary school,—its historical development and present tendencies,
its place and function in organized society, the current conception of secondary
education and its relation to higher education, its curriculum, the
high-school plant, the organization and administration of state high-school
systems.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday and Saturday.
12-1:30. Peabody Hall, Room 2. Professor Maphis.
Education B4: The Psychology of Elementary and High-School Subjects.—First
term: Handwriting, drawing, reading, music, spelling, history
and geography. Second term: Elementary and high-school mathematics;
general science. Third term: Language, English, the principal arts. The
material of the three terms will include the study of various tests and
scales in the several school subjects. The aim of the entire course is to
analyze the nature of each subject so that prospective teachers may understand
the mental processes involved in each subject.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours of electives-at-large.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12.
Peabody Hall, Room 4. Professor Hall-Quest.
Education B5: Applied Psychology: Biology B1 or Philosophy B3, prerequisite.—First
term: The education of the instincts, together with a detailed
study of laws of habit-formation and the psychology of learning various
subjects. Second term: The education of the senses, together with a special
study of imaging in the forms of perception, association and memory.
Third term. The education of the higher thought processes, with a study of
the emotions and of aesthetics.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Peabody Hall, Room 4. Professor Hall-Quest.
Education B6: Principles and Methods of Teaching and Study.—First
term: The educational value of the modern program of studies; the
psychology of high-school subjects. Second term: Lesson types: Appreciation,
drill, induction, deduction, exposition, recitation, examinations: the
meaning, methods and problems of each. Third term: Supervised study.—
its meaning; contents of subject-matter; methods of study; investigations
and results.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.
Monday and Wednesday, 3-4:30. Peabody Hall, Room 4. Professor Hall-Quest.
Education B7:
Section I: Educational Administration and Supervision.—First term:
State and county school organization. Second term: City school systems.
Third term: State and local school organization in Virginia. A study of
state school law.—Tuesday and Thursday, 4:30-6.
Section II: Public School Administration in State and City: Contemporary
Tendencies and Problems.—For students interested in the organization
and administration of educational activity as a branch of state and
municipal affairs. A detailed study of present-day tendencies and problems
in school organization and administration will be presented.—Tuesday
and Thursday, 3-4:30.
(B.A. or B.S. credit for either Section I or Section II, 3 session-hours.)
Peabody Hall. Room 1. Professor Manahan.
Education B8: Elementary School Organization and Supervision.—
First term: Organization of the elementary school and its relation to the
high school. Second term: The function and qualifications of elementary
school principals and teachers; the training of teachers in service. Third
term: The curriculum of the elementary school and its reorganization.—
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Hours to be arranged.
Peabody Hall, Room 1. Professor Manahan.
Education B9. European and American Schools.—First term: Ancient
and mediæval education. Second term: Development of modern school
systems. Third term: Comparative study of education in the United
States, Great Britain, Germany, and France.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours
of electives-at-large.) Hours to be arranged. Peabody Hall, Room 2.
Professor Heck.
