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DESCRIPTION OF COURSES.
For Undergraduates.
Education B1: History and Philosophy of Education.—A study of the
chief educational ideals of mankind in relation to their social and historical
conditions, and as the expression of corresponding philosophies of life.—(B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) M. W. F., 10:30-11:30, P. H., 2. Associate
Professor Pott. (Not open to first-year students.)
Education B2: Educational Psychology.—Psychology B1, prerequisite.—
Original tendencies; the nature and laws of learning; principles of teaching.—
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) M. W. F., 12:30-1:30, P. H., 8. Professor
Ferguson.
Education B3: Educational Sociology.—First and Second terms: Principles
of sociology. Third Term: Social Origins.—(B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.) M. W. F., 10:30-11:30, P. H., 5. Professor Smithey.
Education B5: Educational Administration and Supervision.—First
term: State and county school organization. Second term: City school
systems. Third term: State and local school organization in Virginia. A
study of State laws.—(B.A. or B.S., credit, 3 session-hours.) T. Th. S.,
11:30-12:30, P. H., 4. Professor Manahan.
Education B6: Planning and Equipment of School Buildings: Education
B5 or B7, prerequisite.—Lectures on school design, supplemented by
drawing room practice and field work. Assigned readings and reports. Third
Term. (Credit, 1 session-hour.) Professor Hudnut. Hours to be arranged.
Education B7: Principles of Secondary Education.—(A course intended
primarily for students who expect to teach or to occupy some administrative
position in the high school or general educational work.)
First term: Historical development of the secondary school; its social principles
and its present tendencies. Second term: Aims and functions of
the secondary school in organized society, and its relation to elementary
and higher education. Its program of studies. Third term: Junior high
schools: Their organization, standardization and supervision.—(B.A. or
B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) M. W. F., 11:30-12:30, P. H., 2. Professor
Smithey.
Education B8: Hygiene and Education.—First term: Personal and
community hygiene. Second term: Characteristics, defects, and hygiene of
physical development. Third term: Hygiene of school buildings; equipment
and management.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) (Omitted in 1925-1926.)
Education B9: Elementary School Administration and Supervision.—
First term: Organization of the elementary school and its relation to the
high school. Second term: Duties and qualifications of elementary school
principals and teachers; the training of teachers in service. Third term:
The curriculum of the elementary school and its reorganization.—(B.A. or
B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) T. Th. S., 10:30-11:30, P. H., 7. Professor
Manahan.
Education B10: Methods of Teaching High-School Subjects.—Unit
courses of six weeks each in methods of teaching school subjects will be
given by representatives of the various academic schools concerned. These
courses will be required of third-year students who are candidates for degrees
in Education. Each student must take the methods courses in at least
two subjects, his major and minor, which he expects to teach in high school
—(Credit toward the B.S. in Education.) Hours to be arranged.
In meeting the requirements of Education B10 the student may select
any two of the following courses in the teaching of high school subjects:
(a): The Teaching of Biology in Secondary Schools: Biology B1, prerequisite.—Field
and laboratory study of local fauna and flora with the object
of familiarizing the prospective teacher with the materials he will be called upon
to use, by means of an ecological and systematic study of native animals and
plants. Weekly field trips with laboratory study of the specimens collected.
Course given from September 15 to November 1, and from April 1 to May 15.
Written and graphic reports and assigned reading are required. Credit: 2
session-hours. Professors Kepner and Lewis.
(b): A brief course on the Teaching of English in Secondary Schools
will be offered if conditions permit.
(c): The Teaching of French in Secondary Schools: French A and B,
prerequisite.—Lectures, assigned reading, class reports. Hours to be arranged.
Associate Professor Graham.
(d): The Teaching of Latin in Secondary Schools: Latin A1, prerequisite.—Hours
to be arranged. Professor FitzHugh.
(e): The Teaching of Spanish in Secondary Schools: Spanish A and
B, prerequisite.—Lectures, assigned reading, class reports. Hours to be arranged.
Assistant Professor Knight.
(f): The Teaching of Health Education: Health Education B2, B3 and
Physical Education B1, prerequisite.—Hours to be arranged.
(g): The Teaching of Physical Education: This course, a requirement
of the West Law, is an intensive study of the theory and practice of physical
secondary. It includes systematic gymnastics, efficiency and achievement
tests, mass-athletics, organized recess, athletic period and a limited amount
of practice teaching. Open to both men and women. Hours to be arranged.
Associate Professor Jones.
Education B11: Directed Teaching: Education B10, prerequisite.—
(For candidates for the degrees in Education and must be taken during the
candidate's fourth year.) Students will be grouped in pairs and will teach one
class each day in their major or minor subjects for 18 weeks, one student teaching
the first half of the school year and the other student teaching the second
half. The student not teaching will serve as an assistant and critic of his associate
who will in turn become an assistant and critic when his period of teaching
is completed.—(Credit, 2 session-hours toward degrees in Education.) Hours
to be arranged.
Education B12: School Hygiene and Sanitation: Course prescribed by
the State Board of Education and State Board of Health for all students
desiring certificates to teach in public schools. The following topics are considered:
1. General Public Health and Medical Inspection of Schools.
2. Physical Defects and their Control.
3. Personal Hygiene.
4. Communicable Diseases and their Control.
5. First Aid.
6. The Sanitary School.
7. Community Health.
Credit will be apportioned on the basis of the time and work prescribed.
Hours to be arranged.—Assistant Professor Reynolds.
Health Education B1: History and Principles of Health and Physical
Education.—The history of health and physical education with particular
reference to progress in Europe and America within recent times. The purpose
of the course is to acquaint the student with the various programs of
health education and systems of physical education, with leaders in these
fields and with present-day conceptions of these subjects. It would also consider
the place of health and physical education in the general scheme of
present-day educational endeavor and the principles governing the organization
and administration of health and physical education study in order to
realize their aims, values and ideals. (Credit, 3 session-hours.)
Health Education B2: Public Health and Health Education: Biology
B1, Medical Bacteriology, Education B14, and Anatomy and Physiology, Education
B15, prerequisite.—First Term: The control of communicable diseases
and immunity. Second Term: The water supply and sewage disposal, refuse
disposal, milk, foods and diet. Third Term: Child and maternity hygiene,
mental hygiene, industrial hygiene, vital statistics, public health education, etc.
Journal Club. One class period each month will be devoted to meetings
the instructor, will be discussed by the class. (Credit, 4 session-hours.)
Health Education B3: Medical Bacteriology for Teachers of Health
Education: Biology B1, prerequisite.—Bacteria in nature; life habits of bacteria.
Elements of public health bacteriology. Cultural study of selected disease-producing
bacteria. Modes of transmission and portals of entry. Changes
produced during infection. Immunity. Modes of exit of bacteria from infected
body. Carriers. Given only during first term. (Credit, 2 session-hours.) Professor
Marshall.
Physical Education B1: Anatomy and Physiology.—(Lectures, demonstrations,
recitations and reports.) A study of the anatomy and physiology of
the human body, especially adapted for the student of physical education and
health. First and Second Terms: A brief general study of the structure and
function of the various parts of the body. There will be frequent demonstrations
of anatomical dissections, models, microscopic preparations and physiological
experiments. Third term: A more detailed consideration of the physiology
of movement and exercise, including discussion of such topics as the
following: the general physiological effects of muscular exercise; the effects
of muscular overwork including fatigue, breathlessness, exhaustion, stiffness,
chronic overwork, habituation to work or training; the special physiology of
the various forms of exercise—gymnastics, games, dancing and athletics.
(Credit, 3 session-hours.) Hours to be arranged. Associate Professor Speidel.
Physical Education B2: Kinesiology.—Deals exclusively with the mechanical
problems of bodily movement of bones, joints and muscles. The
principal types of muscular exercise in gymnastics, athletics, etc., are studied
as to their reaction on the body, their relation in bodily development, efficiency
of movement, and the prevention and correction of certain physical
defects and deformities. (Credit, 2 session-hours.)
Physical Education B3: Anthropometry, Corrective and Medical Gymnastics.—The
influence of family and personal history upon the present condition
of the individual; laws of growth; bodily measurements and examinations
of special senses; practical work in measuring, testing, and recording,
and coördination with the physical inspection program of school children in
Virginia; examination of heart, lungs, and for hernia; prescription of exercise
for common structural and postural defects of trunk and feet; functional
defects and their treatment by exercise and massage; the use of massage in
health, athletics, and disease. (Credit, 2 session-hours.)
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Education C1: Advanced Educational Psychology: Psychology B1 and
one B course in Education, prerequisite.—An intensive study of fundamental
processes and problems, involving a survey of important modern contributions to
psychological literature, with emphasis upon a systematic formulation of results.
M. W. F., 10:30-11 :30, P. H., 8. To be given in alternate years with
Education C6. Professor Ferguson.
Education C2: Educational Surveys: State, City and County: 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: The limitations and
possibilities of educational surveys in the fields of elementary and secondary education.
M. W. F., 3-4:30, P. H., 4. To be given in alternate years with Education
C3. Professor Manahan.
Education C3: Standard Tests in School Subjects: Education B5 and
one other B course in Education, prerequisite.—First term: Problems in the application
of the principles of scientific management to education. Second term:
Standard tests in school subjects; their derivation and standardization. Third
term: Application of educational tests, and the interpretation of the results.
M. W. F., 3-4:30, P. H., 4. To be given in alternate years with Education C2.
Professor Manahan.
Education C4: Problems in Secondary Education: Education B7 and
one other B course in Education, prerequisite.—An advanced course in secondary
education. Students will be required to make original investigations of special
problems relating to secondary education. T. Th. S., 11:30-12:30, P. H., 2.
Professor Smithey.
Education C5: Social Education: Education B3 and one other B course
in Education, prerequisite.—First Term: The family as a social and educational
institution. Second Term: Population problems. Third Term: Poverty and
Dependency. Hours to be arranged. Professor Smithey.
Education C6: Mental Tests and their Applications: Psychology B1
and one B course in Education, prerequisite.—A study of the more important
mental tests and intelligence scales, with practice in their administration and
interpretation. M. W. F., 10:30-11:30, P. H., 8. To be given in alternate years
with education C1. Professor Ferguson.
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.
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