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CORNELL UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 



A two-year special course in nature- study is offered. This course 

 is designed to help persons who expect to teach nature-study and 

 country life subjects in the public schools. Persons actually engaged 

 in teaching and also all persons in the University who signify their 

 intention to teach are eligible. A certificate will be given on the 

 completion of sixty hours in the courses prescribed below, together 

 with such other work in the College of Agriculture as may be approved 

 by the Director. 



(a) SUBJECT-MATTER COURSES 



Botany, three hours, throughout the year. Botany, two hours, second half-year. 

 Invertebrate Zoology, two hours, first half of first half-year. Entomology, three 

 hours, second half-year. Systematic and Economic Zoology, two hours, through- 

 out the year. Geology, three hours throughout the year. Soils, three hours, first 

 half-year. The Homestead, two hours, first half-year. 



(b) PRACTICE IN NATURE-STUDY 



Nature-Study. Lectures and discussion of methods. Credit, three hours 1 . 

 Mrs. Comstock. 



Home Nature-Study Work. Work in the training classes in the Ithaca schools 

 in which students are also to take part. Credit, one hour. Mrs. Comstock. 



Practice Work in Nature-Study in the public schools of Ithaca, comprising 

 school room work, excursions, and other exercises with children. Credit, two 

 hours. Miss McCloskey. 



School-Gardens, comprising actual garden making with children on school 

 grounds and in the University school-gardens. In winter the work will be 

 conducted in the forcing houses where plant growing subjects will be taken up in 

 such a way as to adapt them to elementary school conditions. Credit, one hour. 



Nature-Study. Advanced course. Individual work on special problems 

 Professor Bailey, Mrs. Comstock, and Miss McCloskey. 



Students are requested to attend Professor DkGakmo's "Philosophy of Edu- 

 cation." 



As expressed in the preceding Announcement of Courses, the 

 students in nature-study in the Cornell University College of Agri- 

 culture obtain their subject-matter in the regular science depart- 

 ments. This gives accurate foundation for out-of-door stud)-. 



Under the second category, Practice in Nature- Study, the students 

 are taught point of view and are given an opportunity to work out 

 their ideas, having the benefit of discussion and criticism of their fel- 

 low students and instructors. 



The course in practice work in Nature-Study has been taken up 



1 Al Cornell one hour credit means one hour of recitation or two of laboratory work for a half- 

 year. 



