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CONTENT TABLE FOR SPECIAL CERTIFICATES.

I. Commercial Branches: 150 college hours.

Note: A certificate to teach any one part of a commercial course
cannot have college rank.

II. Home Economics:

1. Domestic Art—

(a) Textiles and sewing: Three hours per day for thirty days.
Credit, two college hours. This course should include one hour of
lecture and two hours of laboratory work; three projects in elementary
sewing must be completed.

(b) Elementary dressmaking: Three periods each day for thirty
days. Credit, two college hours. Three projects completed, middy,
sport skirt, one-piece dress.

(c) Drawing or design: Two hours per day.

2. Domestic Science:

(a) Foods and Cookery: Three hours per day for thirty days,
one hour lecture, two hours laboratory period. Credit, two college
hours.

(b) Advanced course in Cooking: Two hours per day for thirty
days. Credit, one college hour.

(c) General Chemistry: Credit, one college hour.

(d) Course in Home Management: Credit, one college hour.

3. One course in educational methods, The Teaching of Home
Economic may be counted for both certificates.

III. History—150 hours. Must include:

       

European and English History	60 hours
American History	30 hours
Government	30 hours
Elective in History	30 hours

IV. Languages:

                       

(a)	English—150 hours. Must include:
	Rhetoric and Composition	60 hours
	English Literature	30 hours
	American Literature	30 hours
	Elective in English	30 hours
(b)	French—150 hours. Must include at least thirty hours in French composition, oral.
(c)	German—150 hours. Must include at least thirty hours in German composition, oral.
(e)	Spanish—150 hours. Must include at least thirty hours in Spanish composition, oral.
(d)	Latin—150 hours. Must include:
	Review of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil	90 hours
	Horace or Livy	30 hours
	Elective in Latin	30 hours

V. Manual Arts:

   

(a)	Drawing	150 hours
(b)	Manual Training	150 hours

VI. Mathematics—150 hours. Must include:

   

Review of Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry, Plane Trigonometry	120 hours
Electives in Mathematics	30 hours

VII. Music—150 hours.

Fields in which special certificates may be obtained: Public
School Music, Piano, Violin, Voice.

VIII. Science:

                               

(a)	Agriculture—180 hours. Must include:
	Animal Husbandry	60 hours
	Plant Husbandry	60 hours
	Methods of Teaching Agriculture	30 hours
	Elective in Science	30 hours
(b)	Biology—150 hours. Must include:
	Botany	60 hours
	Zoölogy	60 hours
	Human Biology	30 hours
(c)	Chemistry—150 hours.
(d)	General Science—180 hours. Must include:
	Economic Geography	30 hours
	Biology	60 hours
	Physics	60 hours
	Methods of Teaching General Science in the High School	30 hours
(e)	Physics—150 hours.

Note: Special certificates for teaching Agriculture and Home Economics
in a vocational high school can be granted only upon such
credits as are stated in the bulletin on Certification of Teachers issued
by the State Board of Education.