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. Cabell Hall. 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 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Monday and Wednesday,
4.45-6.15. Cabell Hall. 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 program of studies, 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. Cabell Hall. 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.)
Hours to be arranged. Cabell Hall.
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.) Hours to be arranged.
Cabell Hall.
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.) Hours to be arranged.
Cabell Hall.
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.)
Cabell Hall. 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. Cabell
Hall. 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. Cabell Hall. Professor Heck.
