For Undergraduates.
Education B1: Evolution. Heredity and Education.
First Term: Stages and Factors of Organic Evolution.
Second Term: Heredity and Eugenics.
Third Term: Biological Foundations of Education.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours ) Monday and Wednesday,
7:30-9 P. M. Education Building, Room 2. Professor Heck.
Education B2: Sociological Principles of Education.
First Term: Introduction to Sociology.
Second Term: Evolution of the Family and Other Educational Institutions.
Third Term: Social Needs of Education.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
9-10. Education Building, Room 2. Professor Heck.
Education B3: Secondary Education.—This course is intended primarily
for students who expect to teach, or 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,—
based on a general survey of present educational theory and practice—the
high-school plant, buildings and equipment, the organization and administration
of state high-school systems. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours
of electives-at-large.) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 12-1. Education
Building, Room 2. Professor Maphis.
Education B4: History of Education.
First Term: Ancient and Mediæval Education.
Second Term: Modern Education, including a brief survey of the
structure of the present school system in the United States.
Third Term: Educational Classics. Reading, in translations, of
Plato's Republic, Quintilian's Institutes, Montaigne's Essay on Education.
Rousseau's Emile, and selections from Locke, Pestalozzi, and Froebel.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
9-10. Education Building, Room 4. Associate Professor Hall-Quest.
Education B5: Educational Psychology.
First Term: Principles of Education, including the study of Instincts.
Habit and the Practice Curve.
Second Term: Sensation and Perception, Imagination, Association and
Memory, with special emphasis on methods of correct memorizing; Formal
Discipline.
Third Term: Attention and Interest; the higher mental processes—
Conception, Judgment, Reasoning.
Text-books: Bagley's The Educative Process, Colvin's The Learning
Process, Sandiford's The Mental and Physical Health of School Children.
Works by Thorndike and Whipple will be consulted.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11. Education Building, Room 4. Associate Professor Hall-Quest.
Education B6: Technique of Teaching and of Study.
First Term: Principles of Teaching; The Lesson Types. Text-books:
Strayer's Teaching Process and Charter's Method of Teaching.
Second Term: Class-room Management.
Third Term: Technique of Study; How to teach pupils to study;
Various devices to be employed in studying; Problem and schemes of supervised
study.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Education Building, Room 4. Associate Professor
Hall-Quest.
