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DESCRIPTION OF COURSES
For Undergraduates
Education B1: History of Education: First term: Ancient Educational
Ideals. Brief consideration is given to the beginnings of education among
primitive societies and to types of oriental education. Most attention will be
devoted to Greek and Roman education and to education among the early
Christians. At the end of the course consideration will be given to the
problem of education in Western Europe presented by the military and
political supremacy of the barbarian hordes and of the first attempts to
educate them. Second term: Medieval and Renaissance Education. This
course will begin where the first term ended, that is at the time when
the barbarians in western Europe, under the auspices of the church and the
institution of chivalry, were gradually mastering Latin grammar, rhetoric
and the social virtues. The date, somewhat arbitrary, is 1000 A. D. From
this period the course extends roughly to the year 1650 and will consider
education during the late middle ages and the Renaissance period. During
the middle ages, special emphasis will be placed on the scholastic movement,
the rediscovery of Greek philosophy, the rise and influence of mendicant orders
and rise and growth of universities. The Renaissance will be interpreted
broadly to include three important educational developments: humanism, reformation
and counter-reformation education and the scientific revolution.
Third term: History of Modern Education. Completes the review of western
education. While the study of European education will be continued, special
attention will be directed to the history of education in the United States.
Among major topics considered will be the following: the disciplinary theory
of education, scientific education, the psychological movement in education,
nationalism and education, and finally, social theory and education. (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 1 course.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:30 to 10:30; P. H. 3.
Associate Professor Zehmer.
Education B2: Educational Psychology: Psychology B1 prerequisite.—
Mental ability and its development. Quantitative aspects of the subject will
be stressed, and the classroom work will be supplemented by practice in mental
measurement and experiments in learning. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 1 course.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10:30 to 11:30; P. H. B.
Professor Ferguson.
(The courses in elementary education are designed to serve the needs of
administrators, supervisors and teachers. Due to the fact that many students
come to the University with some previous professional training in the field
of elementary education it is desirable that the courses here be so arranged
that students may round out their professional work without having to
duplicate courses already taken elsewhere. In order that this may be done
students may be allowed, with the permission of the instructors, to substitute
vice versa.)
Education B3: Modern Elementary Education: First term: Functions
of the elementary school. Types of school organization. Administrative and
supervisory principles and methods as they relate to internal management,
community relationships and articulation with the high school. Second term:
The elementary school curriculum. An intensive study of curriculum
theories. Third term: Evaluation of the elementary school program. The
function and use of standard and informal tests. The application of accepted
standards to the various phases of the elementary school program. (Credit,
1 course.) Monday, Wednesday, 4:00-5:30; P. H. 4.
Assistant Professors Acker and McLester.
Education B4: Elementary School Teaching and Supervision:
(a) Teaching and Supervising the Core Curriculum:
First term: Theory and practice in the development of units of work—
Fine and industrial arts. Second term: Continuation of the work of the first
term, including the use of slides, motion pictures and other visual materials.
Third term: Children's Literature. (Credit, 1 course.) Tuesday,
Thursday. First and second terms, 3:30-5:30; third term, 4:00-5:30. P. H. 4.
(b) Teaching and Supervising the Fundamental Subjects:
First term: The teaching and supervision of reading. Second term: The
teaching and supervision of language, spelling, writing. Third term: The
teaching and supervision of arithmetic. (Credit, 1 course.) Tuesday, Thursday,
4:00-5:30; P. H. 4.
(c) Elementary School Supervision: Theory and Directed Practice.
For students in their final year majoring in elementary school supervision. The
field work will be done in connection with (a) and (b) above. Ordinarily
this field work will be concentrated in one term. Occasional visits to schools
will be made throughout the year, however. Students must arrange their
schedules so as to have two afternoons a week free for field work and conferences.
No extra credit is involved in this work. It is an integral part of
(a) and (b). Tuesday, 12:30-4:00; Thursday, 3:00-4:00 p. m.
Assistant Professors Acker and McLester.
Education B5: School Hygiene and Sanitation and Educational Administration
and Supervision: First term: School Hygiene and Sanitation.
This course is prescribed by the Virginia State Board of Education for all
students desiring certificates to teach in public schools. The course will be
concerned with the laws of physical growth, physical defects and their control,
personal hygiene, communicable diseases, physical inspection of school
children, first aid, school sanitation, administration of the health program,
and related subjects. Second term: State School Administration. This course
will involve a consideration of the relation of the Federal Government to
public education, the development of the principles of state school administration,
the relation of state school control to local school administration, and
related topics. The legal basis for public education in Virginia will be carefully
B5 is a continuation of the second term. Attention will be given to a study
of the principles underlying the organization and administration of district,
county, and city schools. Application of these principles to the practical
aspects of county and city school administration in Virginia will be emphasized.
(Credit, 1 course.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:30 to 12:30;
P. H. 3.
Assistant Professor Jarman.
Education B7: Modern Secondary Education: First term: High School
Management. The place of the secondary school; the development of the
American high school, the secondary school pupil; the relation of the secondary
school to the elementary school; the relation of the secondary school to
higher education; the external organization and administration of the
secondary school; the internal organization and administration of the secondary
school; the high school staff and staff problems; the organization and
administration of instruction; the administration of pupil progress; the
administration of the high school curriculum with particular reference to the
state high school program. Second term: Curriculum of the High School.
The nature and purpose of the high school curriculum; the program of
studies of secondary education; the means and materials of secondary education;
the place of the academic subjects; the place of the vocational subjects;
the special subjects and extra-curricular activities; the making of the
high school curriculum; curriculum revision and curriculum adjustment; research
in curriculum making; interpretation of the Virginia high school
program. Third term: High School Instruction. The outcome of teaching;
the nature of learning and the nature of teaching; the relation between individual
and group instruction; providing and directing learning activities;
training pupils to study; plans for individualizing instruction; the unit method
of teaching; measuring the results of teaching. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 1
course.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10:30 to 11:30; P. H. 2.
Professor Smithey.
Education B8: High School Problems: First term: Social Principles
of Secondary Education. Recent social trends with special emphasis on the
centers of interest employed in the scope of the new curriculum for Virginia
secondary schools. Principles of sociology that most concern various
types of secondary education as determined by the needs of dynamic society,
modern economic life, and present-day culture. The application of these
principles to the program of the modern high school. Second term: The
Junior High School and the Junior College. Origin, aims, organization, curriculum,
instruction, and control of the junior high school. Origin, aims,
organization, curriculum, and control of the junior college. The 6-3-3 plan
and the 6-4-4 plan. Third term: High School Guidance and the Co-curriculum.
Informing students concerning opportunities; securing information
concerning students; guiding the individual student; organizing guidance
service. In developing the guiding principles of pupil participation in the
extra-curricular life of the school, the following activities are considered;
home room and class organization; student council; school clubs, the assembly,
commencement; the school activities period; study halls and pupil participation
games and contests; school publications—newspaper, magazine, annual, handbook;
dramatics, debating, excursions, fraternities and sororities, the National
Honor Society and other honor societies, school and athletic insignia; everyday
school manners, school and class parties and dances; school camps and
camping, welcoming and orienting new pupils; extra-curricular finances, the
school bank, such supplementary school agencies as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
Camp Fire Girls, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Junior Red Cross; the
adviser of boys, the adviser of girls; a point system for directing and limiting
pupil activity, a record card for pupil activity. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 1
course.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:30 to 12:30; P. H. 2.
Professor Smithey.
Education B11a: The Teaching of High School Subjects: Education
B7 is a prerequisite to each of the following divisions.—Each third-year student
who is a candidate for a degree in Education must take a special methods
course in the field of his academic major. Selection may be made from the following
courses in meeting the requirements of Education B11a. (Credit, 1/3
course for each.)
(1) The Teaching of English in Secondary Schools: Credit for 6 session-hours
of college English as a minimum and Education B7, prerequisite.—A detailed
consideration of the aims and trends in the teaching of English; the principles underlying
the selection of types of classroom procedure in English instruction. The
course includes an examination of recent texts, tests, and instructional materials;
the construction of units and projects in English; and a discussion of the principles
of curriculum construction in English. Special consideration will be given
to problems of special method in the teaching of literature, silent reading, oral
and written composition, and language usage. (Credit, 1/3 course.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 8:30-9:30; P. H. 2.
Mr. Meade.
(2) The Teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools: Credit for 6
session-hours of college mathematics as a minimum and Education B7, prerequisite.
—This course will discuss in detail the aims, organizations and methods of teaching
mathematics in Junior and Senior high schools. Attention will be given to general
mathematics, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and commercial arithmetic. Special
consideration will be given to such topics as the following: Aims and trends in
the teaching of mathematics; criteria for the selection of subject-matter; the
examination of current tests, texts, curricula, and other instructional materials;
the construction, use, and value of teaching units; lesson planning. (Credit,
1/3 course.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 8:30-9:30; P. H. 8.
Mr. Lankford.
(3) The Teaching of Science in Secondary Schools: Credit for 6 session-hours
of college science as a minimum and Education B7, prerequisite.—This
course will discuss in detail the aims, methods, recent tendencies, and equipment for
the teaching of science in Junior and Senior high schools. A review will be made
of the development of science teaching and the place of the natural sciences in the
curriculum of secondary schools. Special attention will be given to general
of recent textbooks, a discussion of current practices in handling laboratory
work and notebooks, the planning and value of units of instruction, testing,
and remedial teaching. (Credit, 1/3 course.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
8:30-9:30; P. H. 8.
Mr. Lankford.
(4) The Teaching of the Social Studies in Secondary Schools: Credit for
6 session-hours of college social studies as a minimum and Education B7, prerequisite.—A
course in materials and methods in the social studies. The course includes
a consideration of (a) the general current trends in the teaching of the social
studies in secondary schools; (b) the objectives of the social studies in the high
school; (c) the examination and use of text and laboratory materials for the socialized
recitation, with special emphasis on the high school library in the social
studies; (d) a consideration of classroom procedure and the place and use of
objective and other tests; (e) the unit plan and procedure; (f) and the materials
and devices to make this plan of study effective in the handling of individual
students. (Credit, 1/3 course.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 4:005:00;
P. H. 8.
Mr. Swindler.
Education B11b: Directed Teaching: Open only to seniors. Education
B2, B7, and B11a prerequisite.—Directed teaching in the Charlottesville and Albemarle
County High Schools. The student, through graded participation, is
inducted into successive teaching activities until full teaching responsibility is
assumed for a period of time sufficient to produce skill in teaching. The
minimum requirements are five periods of observation and practice, one and
one-half hours of individual conferences, and a one-hour group conference
each week for eighteen weeks. (Credit, 2/3 course.) First and second terms
or second and third terms.
Observation and practice: 12:48 to 1:40 M., T., W., Th., F. or 1:40 to
2:30 M., T., W., Th., F., at high school.
Group conference: 3.00 to 4:00 Wednesday, P. H. 8.
Individual conferences: Hours to be arranged between 8:30 and 11:30
M., T., W., Th., F.; P. H. 8.
Professor Smithey and Instructors Lankford, Meade, and Swindler.
For Undergraduates and Graduates
Education C2: Problems in School Administration: Education B5 and
one other B course in Education prerequisite.—First term: Organization, aims,
scope and methods of school surveys. Second term: A detailed study of
selected school surveys. Third term: Selected problems in school administration.
Tuesday, Thursday, 3 to 4:30; P. H. 7.
Professor Manahan and Assistant Professor Jarman.
Education C3: Problems in Elementary School Supervision: Education
B5 and B3 or B4 prerequisite.—First term: Problems in the application of the
principles of scientific management to education. Second term: Standard tests
of educational tests, and the interpretation of the results. Monday,
Wednesday, 3 to 4:30; P. H. 7.
Professor Manahan and Assistant Professor Jarman.
Education C4: Problems in High School Administration: Education B7
and B8 prerequisite.—Students will be required to make original investigation
of the problems of this course. First term: Problems of High School Administration.
The characteristics of a good high school; advantages and disadvantages
of homogeneous grouping; individualizing learning activities; assistance
to pupils in selecting subjects best suited to them; efficiency of instruction
in relation to size of high school classes; the departmental organization
of the high school; the distribution of time of the principal; high school
and college relations; teaching combinations; the high school library; the
use of the high school library. Second term: Problems of the High School
Curriculum. Application of suitable technique of objective analysis to a
determination of (1) the recognized problems of high school curriculum, followed
by (2) a treatment in order of the problems so determined. Third
term: Problems of the High School Teacher. Securing goals or objectives
appropriate to the development of pupils in keeping with the purposes of
the school; the selection and use of varied types of teaching materials; the
adjustment of method and school organization to local conditions and needs;
the evaluation of the quality and thoroughness of learning; plans of teaching
for promoting learning on the part of pupils; class-room procedures useful
in promoting learning on the part of pupils; the evaluation of teaching; getting
along with the principal and the other teachers.
The purpose of the course is to present to the student the best procedures
in high school organization, administration, supervision, and instruction for the
attainment of the objectives of secondary education and to give him opportunities
to ascertain how high schools should be organized and administered
in terms of accepted principles for the realization of these objectives. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 9:30 to 10:30; P. H. 2. To be given in alternate years with
Education C5.
Professor Smithey.
Education C5: Special Problems of the High School: Education B7 and
B8 prerequisite.—An advanced course in secondary education. Students will
be required to make original investigation of the problems of this course.
First term: Problems in High School Supervision. The major aims and purposes
of high school supervision; principles and elements of an effective
supervisory program; improving subject matter and method; rating of teachers;
measuring the outcome of instruction; providing material aids to teaching;
organization of the school to promote instructional efficiency; the organization,
supervision and evaluation of a supervisory program. Second
term: Problems of the Junior High School and the Junior College. Special
problems concerned with the major issues connected with junior high schools
and junior colleges. Third term: Problems of High School Guidance and the
Co-curriculum. Special problems relative to an effective high school guidance
program and an effective program of extra-curricular activities. Monday,
with Education C4. (Not to be given in 1936-37.)
Professor Smithey.
Education C6: Mental Measurement: Psychology B1 and one B course
in Education prerequisite.—A study of the more important mental tests and
intelligence scales, of the statistical methods involved in their use, and of the
results obtained.
Professor Ferguson.
Education C7: Studies in Elementary Education: (Open to graduate
students only.) First term: Survey of research as it relates to the content
of the elementary school curriculum. Second term: Survey of research
as it relates to instructional methods. Third term: Survey of research as it
relates to special problems of the classroom teacher. Monday, Wednesday,
7:30-9:30 p. m.; P. H.
Note: Psychology C3, Genetic Psychology, Psychology C4, Theoretical
Psychology, Psychology C5, Systematic Psychology, Psychology C6, Special
Topics in Genetic Psychology, Psychology C7, History of Psychology, and
Psychology C8, Statistical Method, may be offered toward meeting the requirements
for graduate degrees in Education.
Psychology C3: Genetic Psychology: Psychology B1 and any other B
course listed in this School prerequisite.—The development of psychological functions
in the animal species and in the child will be traced as a genetic approach
to human psychology. The topics to be considered include the senses,
instinct, memory, learning and intelligence. During part of the year laboratory
work will be included.
Assistant Professor Dennis.
Psychology C4: Theoretical Psychology: Psychology B1 and any other
B course listed in this School prerequisite.—An examination of the more important
positions in psychological theory, with special reference to the structural,
functional, behavioristic and Gestalt points of view. To be given in alternate
years with Psychology C5.
Associate Professor Geldard.
Psychology C5: Systematic Psychology: Psychology B1 and any other
B course listed in this School prerequisite.—A survey of the psychological literature
pertaining to the special senses, feeling and emotion, and action. The course
is designed to provide an understanding of fundamental methods of research as
well as a knowledge of the status of basic problems. To be given in alternate
years with Psychology C4. (Not offered in 1936-37.)
Associate Professor Geldard.
Psychology C6: Special Topics in Genetic Psychology: Psychology B1
and any other B course listed in this School prerequisite.—A seminar course for
advanced students in which the literature of special topics in child and animal
psychology will be reviewed. Second and third terms only. To be given in
alternate years with Psychology C7,
Assistant Professor Dennis.
Psychology C7: History of Psychology: Psychology B1 and any other
B course listed in this School prerequisite.—A survey of the historical development
of modern psychology. Second and third terms only. To be given in alternate
years with Psychology C6. (Not offered in 1936-37.)
Assistant Professor Dennis.
Psychology C8: Statistical Method: Psychology B1 and any other B
course listed in this School prerequisite.—An introduction to the statistical methods
in current use in psychology and allied fields. First term only.
Assistant Professor Dennis.
For Graduates
Education D1: Seminar in Educational Psychology: Research studies.
Hours by appointment.
Professor Ferguson.
Education D2: Seminar in School Administration: Research studies in
state, city and county school organization and administration will be made
and reported for class discussion by each student. Hours by appointment.
Professor Manahan.
Education D3: Seminar in Secondary Education: Research studies in
secondary education. Each student will be given a special problem which
will be reported to the class for discussion. Hours by appointment.
Professor Smithey.
Education D4: Seminar in Elementary Education: Research in elementary
education. Each student must carry through and report on an
original research study. The course is also designed to keep students abreast
of current research in the field of elementary education as it is reported in
educational literature. Hours to be arranged.
Professor Manahan and Assistant Professors Acker, Jarman, and
McLester.
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