PENN STATE COLLEGE OUTLINES A NEW UNDER- 

 GRADUATE COURSE IN FORESTRY. 



By Prof. H. P. BAKER 



OURING the past ten years most of the Departments or Schools giving 

 undergraduate work in Forestry have outlined their courses largely upon 

 the basis of work done in the schools organized earlier at Cornell and 

 Yale. Many of these courses started out with an elementary or synoptical 

 course which was designed to be a general course giving students a rapid survey 

 of the development and practice of Forestry in this country. Following these 

 were courses in Silviculture, Mensuration, Management, and other courses 

 as time allowed. Most of the courses were given with a relatively small 

 amount of practicum, though the amount of theory and practice necessary 

 in both graduate and undergraduate schools will probably be a disputed 

 question for some time. So far many of our undergraduate courses have been 

 weak through lack of work in such closely related lines at Botany, Zoology 

 and Entomology, Geology and Mineralogy, Economics and the English Lan- 

 guage. This condition is often difficult to remedy because the work was out- 

 lined in departments preparing men mostly for other lines of work or de- 

 partments were organized where they are controlled too largely by interests 

 of the schools of which they are a part, such as Engineering, Agricultui'e or 

 Liberal Arts. 



The course given below has been adopted recently for the Department of 

 Forestry in The Pennsylvania State College, and it is believed that for the 

 present time it meets very nearly the requirements for training for an under- 

 graduate degree in Forestry. The first year and a half is given to foundation 

 subjects in the following proportion : 



Mathematics and Mechanical Drawings 7 hours 



French or German 12 hours 



English Composition 10 hours 



Chemistry 11 hours 



Botany 10 hours 



Carpentry 1 hour 



Geology 4 hours 



Physics 4 hours 



Surveying 3 hours 



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