 | University of Virginia record March, 1913 |  |
GEOGRAPHY.
It is the purpose in this subject to meet, primarily, the needs of
teachers, whether engaged in elementary or advanced work. A second
aim is to provide courses of practical and cultural value to college
students. The work embraces lectures, laboratory and field instruction
in physical and industrial geography.
1. Physical Geography.—An introductory course in practical physical
geography. Some of the topics treated are: interpretation and
classification of maps; common minerals and rocks, as the materials
of the land; weathering; relief features; origin and careful description
of land forms produced by wind, ground water, rivers, and
glaciers. The relation of physiographic environs to human activities
is emphasized. Special attention is given to laboratory work
suitable for use in high schools.
Lectures are illustrated by lantern slides, maps, models, and specimens.
Text-Books.—Salisbury's Physiography or Tarr's New Physical Geography;
Bengtson's Physical Geography Manual.
Lectures, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 9:30 to
hours to be arranged.
2. Industrial Geography.—This course, suited to the needs of both
grade and high school teachers, is both industrial and commercial.
It gives a general survey of our national resources and their conservation,
and a more detailed description of certain type industries.
Some of the subjects are: coal; petroleum; iron and steel; wheat
and flour; corn; cattle, beef and dairy; cotton; sugar. The forms
and processes involved in transforming commercial raw materials
into finished manufactured products are carefully traced. Values
and commercial relations are discussed following the other details
of each industry. The work is made concrete by the use of illustrative
material and well selected sets of lantern slides. Assigned
readings and reports.
Lectures, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, from 12:15 to
1:15. Professor Bengston. Rotunda, Room 4. Laboratory, two
hours to be arranged.
3. Aims and Methods in Geography.—Consists of lectures, discussions,
and exercises dealing with the actual problems of the class
room. The work is designed particularly for teachers in the grades.
Some of the topics discussed are: geography in the lower grades;
use of the textbook; illustrative material—uses and methods of collecting;
outline and relief maps; field and factory trips; correlation
of industrial and regional geography; simple methods of teaching
earth movements, latitude and longitude, standard time, tides, winds
and wind belts. 30 periods credit can be obtained by completing
readings, reports, and examinations.
Lectures, Tuesday and Thursday, 4:30 to 5:30. Professor Bengtson.
Rotunda, Room 4.
4. Primary and Grammar School Geography.—This course is designed
to meet the needs of teachers of primary and grammar grades
and includes the drill in subject matter needed to meet the requirements
of the State examination for a first grade certificate. Subject
matter and methods of presentation will be given attention from the
standpoint of general geographic principles and of good geography
teaching, emphasizing particularly the life relations. The course will
also consider the application of so-called type studies; the use of supplementary
reading; field trips; the extent to which commercial
geography should be taught in the grammar grades; the best aids in
teaching—maps, globes, models, pictures, etc.
Text-Books.—The course will be based on Frye's Geographies.
Section I, Advanced, daily, from 8:30 to 9:30; Section II, Primary,
daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor Johnson. Rotunda, Room 4.
Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate—Geography
1 and 2; Special High School Certificate—Geography 1 and
2; Professional Grammar Grades Certificate—Geography 3 and 4;
Professional Primary Grade Certificates—Geography 3 and 4.
| University of Virginia record March, 1913 | |