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. Peabody Hall, 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. 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,—
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. Peabody
Hall, Room 2. Professor Maphis.
Education B4: Educational Systems:
First Term: Brief survey of educational aims as illustrated by the educational
methods of Greece, Rome, France, Germany and England. A study
of some of the leading educational classics of these countries with special
attention to the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian, Rousseau, Herbart,
Locke and Spencer.
Second Term: American education; the various types of education,
public and private, with a survey of the most important educational movements
of the present time; the organization of the American school system.
Third Term: Problems of higher education; the aims and methods
of colleges and universities; the meaning of academic degrees; modern
movements in higher education.
Text-books: Graves's History of Education; various classics in education;
books by Foster, Birdseye, Snedden, Elliott.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
12-1. Peabody Hall. Associate 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.
Text-books: Thorndike's Educational Psychology; Colvin's The Learning
Process; Bagley's The Educative Process; Dewey's How We Think.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11. Peabody Hall, Room 4. Associate 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.
Text-books: Bagley's Educational Values; Judd's The Psychology of
High-School Subjects; Earhart's Types of Teaching; Hall-Quest's Syllabus
on Supervised Study.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Peabody Hall, Room 4. Associate Professor
Hall-Quest.
