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training, physical education and hygiene, and educational psychology, 

 which are important for the proper appreciation of the numerous 

 interrelations of nature-study in the elementary-school curriculum. 



After this year the work of all departments of this institution will 

 be limited to professional courses designed primarily for Junior and 

 Senior years for the Bachelor's degree and for graduate students. 

 The problems of nature-study are, therefore, radically different from 

 those obtaining in normal schools which must deal largely with 

 students entirely without experience in teaching and with no more 

 than high-school training, for most students now come to Teachers 

 College with normal training or its equivalent for two years in advance 

 of high school and large numbers have had experience in teaching. 



A major for the Bachelor's degree and an additional diploma 

 mentioning special training for teaching may now be taken in nature- 

 study. The requirements are 60 points (a point is one hour lecture, - 

 or two hours laboratory work for a half-year) for the Junior and 

 Senior years. Of these 60, 44 are prescribed as follows : 



General and Educational Psychology, six points, Professor 

 Thorndike ; History and Principles of Education, six- points, 

 Professor Monroe ; Lectures on teaching of nature-study, two points, 

 Professors Bigelow and Woodhull ; Practical course (including 

 teaching under criticism in school and garden), four points, Professors 

 Bigelow and Woodhull and Miss Broadhurst ; Teaching in Elementary 

 Schools (general theory and practice), six points, Professor McMurry ; 

 Biological Nature-Study (subject-matter course in plant and animal 

 natural history and elements of agriculture), four points, chiefly in 

 laboratory, field, garden and greenhouse, Professor Bigelow and Miss 

 Broadhurst ; Physical Nature-Study (subject-matter drawn from 

 physics and chemistry) , Professor Woodhull and Miss Van Arsdale ; 

 General Geography, six points, and Teaching Elementary Geography, 

 two points, Professor Dodge and Miss Kirchwey ; Applied Biology, 

 including human physiology, four points, chiefly in laboratory, 

 Professor Bigelow. 



The remaining 16 points (most students have completed some of 

 above required courses in other schools and therefore have more 

 I mints elective) may be selected with great freedom. Commonly, 

 courses in the science departments, manual training, elementary 

 drawing, and such other courses as are needed for well-rounded 

 preparation of a special teacher of nature-study are advised. 



Students preparing for the general elementary school work and who 

 do not expect to become special teachers or directors of nature-study 



