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Biology B1: General Biology: An elementary study of organisms and
the relations between animals and plants. Plants will be studied from the
standpoint of metabolism and growth, and animals from that of structure and
response. Types will be chosen which illustrate the fundamental biological
laws and throw light on the place of man among living things. Three hours
of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6
session-hours.)

Professors Lewis and Kepner, Associate Professor Reynolds, Assistant
Professors Betts and Davis and Assistants.

Biology C1: Evolution and Heredity: Biology B1 prerequisite.—Evolution,
the theory and its history; the principles of heredity and their application
to human problems. Three hours of lecture per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours.)

Professor Lewis.

Biology C2: Genetics: Biology B1 prerequisite.—A study of the fundamental
principles of heredity, with special emphasis on their various applications
and on the origins and relations of characters. First and second terms only.
Three hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week.

Professor White.

CHEMISTRY

A fee of $20.00 and a breakage deposit of $5.00 are required for each course
involving laboratory work, and for research courses.

Chemistry B1: General Chemistry: The fundamental principles of chemistry.
The first term is devoted to an introduction to the atomic theory and
the chemical view of matter and a study of acids, bases, and salts. The
second term occupies a consideration of the electrolytic dissociation theory,
oxidation and reduction reactions, equilibrium, and typical nonmetallic elements.
The third term is devoted to an introduction to the chemistry of carbon,
the descriptive chemistry of the more important metals and a brief introduction
to qualitative analysis. Three hours of lecture and six hours of
laboratory per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)

Professor Carter, Dr. Bell and Assistants.

Chemistry B2: Analytical Chemistry: Chemistry B1 prerequisite.—(a)
Qualitative Analysis. First and second terms, three hours of lecture and six
hours of laboratory per week, devoted to the study of systematic qualitative
analysis. (b) Quantitative Analysis. Third term, two hours of lecture and
nine hours of laboratory per week, devoted to elementary quantitative analysis.
In the lecture work special emphasis is given to the theoretical foundations
of analytical chemistry. Some of the topics treated are: Solutions,
theory of ionization, law of mass action, solubility-product principle, hydrolysis,
amphoteric substances, complex ions, types of reactions, oxidation and
reduction, colloids, etc. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)

Professor Yoe and Assistants.

Note: This course is specially recommended to pre-medical students
who wish to obtain more chemistry than the minimum requirement of the
Medical School.

Chemistry B3: Organic Chemistry: Chemistry B1 prerequisite.—An introduction
to the study of the compounds of carbon, including the application
of modern chemical theory to such compounds and their reactions. Three
hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
6 session-hours.)

Professor Bird and Assistants.

Chemistry B4: Quantitative Analysis: Chemistry B2 prerequisite.—This
course is arranged according to the physico-chemical principles which are involved
instead of the traditional treatment according to the technique employed,
namely, gravimetric and volumetric. The important principles around
which practically all quantitative methods may be grouped are: Neutralization,
solubility product, oxidation and reduction, colorimetry, and evolution
and measurement of gases. The laboratory exercises have been selected with
the idea of illustrating these principles as well as introducing the student to
something new in laboratory technique each time. One hour of lecture and
six hours of laboratory per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Yoe and Assistant.

Chemistry B5: Undergraduate Research: To be eligible for this course
a student must have completed at least two of the three courses, B3, B4 and C1,
and must either have taken or be taking the third.—Properly qualified undergraduate
students are given opportunity to undertake an original investigation
of some problem in chemistry under the direction of a member of the teaching
staff. The student will be expected to devote to his problem a minimum
of nine hours per week throughout the year. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)

GEOLOGY

Geology B1: General Geology: Principles of dynamical, structural and
historical geology designed to give a general survey of the forces operating
upon the earth, the phenomena of earthquakes, vulcanism, mountain making,
the form and structure of the earth, and its past history. Three hours of
lectures and six hours of laboratory. Laboratory fee, $3. Two lecture sections.
Six laboratory sections. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)

Professor Roberts and Assistants.

Geology B2: Applied Geology: May be taken by first-year students.—This
course is primarily for those who wish to obtain a general knowledge of the
place that geology occupies in our present day civilization, the relation of
geological phenomena and conditions to human activities. The course gives
first a resumé of the geological history of the earth and the present day
physiography. It includes a study of geological environmental factors and
their effect on the industrial development of the different regions of the
United States; a study of water supply; a study of the principal minerals,
methods of mining, cost, distribution, and the part they play in the industrial
development of the world; followed, at the end of the last term, with special
lectures on geology and engineering, geology and industry, etc. No laboratory.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Nelson.

Geology B4: Mineralogy: Open to all college students.—First term:
Principles of crystal structure and its relationship to the properties of minerals.
Second and third terms: Descriptive, physical and chemical mineralogy.
Three hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory. Laboratory
fee, $5. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Pegau.

Geology B5: Elementary Mineralogy: Lectures and recitations with
laboratory work on the simple rock-forming and leading ore-forming minerals.
One two-hour laboratory period to be arranged. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Pegau.

PHYSICS

Physics B1: General Physics: A knowledge of the elements of plane trigonometry
through the right triangle is prerequisite.—(The course is open to first-year
students who have received this preparation in the high school.) The
classroom instruction is given by textbooks, recitations, problems, and experimental
demonstrations. In the laboratory each student performs experiments
upon which written reports are required. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
One lecture section, three laboratory sections. Laboratory fee, $15.

Professor Hoxton, Associate Professor Brown and Assistants.

Physics B2: Physics B1, or its equivalent, prerequisite. Calculus is not required.—This
course is designed to give the student a more thorough background
for advanced work in Physics and other sciences. Not more than 12 students
will be admitted. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Laboratory fee, $7.50.

Associate Professor Brown.

Physics C1: Mechanics: A knowledge of the calculus is prerequisite.—
Lectures only.

Professor Sparrow.

Physics C2: Electricity and Magnetism: A knowledge of the calculus is
prerequisite.—Lecture and Laboratory. Laboratory fee, $7.50. (Given in 1932-33.)

Professor Hoxton.

Physics C3: Optics: A knowledge of the calculus is prerequisite.—Lecture
and Laboratory. Laboratory fee, $7.50. (Given in 1931-32.)

Associate Professor Brown.

Physics C4: Heat and Related Topics: A knowledge of the calculus is
prerequisite.—Lecture and Laboratory. Laboratory fee, $7.50. (Given in 1931-32.)

Professor Hoxton.

Note: Not more than three of the above C courses will be given in one
year. Where laboratory work is given the time is divided between lecture
and laboratory in such a way that a total of not less than 3 session-hours for
each course is maintained. The student is expected to take every opportunity
to acquire laboratory technique as a preparation for experimental
investigations.