66 FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



CURRICULUM. 



This curriculum is arranged to serve as a basis not only for 

 practical work in forestry but also for a liberal education. 

 During the first two years much attention is given to biology, 

 chemistry, and civil engineering, all of which are important 

 fundamentals upon which are built the more technical fores- 

 try courses. A knowledge of the principles of forestry in its 

 various branches is given to the student and considerable prac- 

 tical work is done in silviculture, mensuration, lumbering, and 

 management. The wood lands belonging to the University, 

 together with adjacent lands covered by young growth, furnish 

 a field for the study of many forest problems. Field trips are 

 made and demonstration thinnings and plantings made at vari- 

 ous places throughout the state. Particular attention is given 

 to the collection and presentation of statistical data in report 

 form. 



Detailed descriptions of the courses, as well as scholarships 

 and prizes offered by the University, may be found in a special 

 catalog of the Forestry Department, which will be mailed to 

 anyone upon request. 



The instruction in this department consists of lectures, reci- 

 tations, laboratory and field work ; the latter consuming a con- 

 siderable portion of the scheduled time during the junior and 

 senior years. Instruction in technical forestry subjects is 

 given by the professor in charge of the department. This is 

 supplemented by work given in other departments of the Uni- 

 versity. Five recitation hours a week of successful work for 

 one semester entitle a student to one credit, and a minimum of 

 seventeen hours a week leading to three and two-fifths credits 

 is required. A total of thirty credits, or one hundred fifty 

 semester hours, is required for graduation. Upon the comple- 

 tion of this work the student received the degree of Bachelor 

 of Science in Forestry. Students who complete this curriculum 

 are admited to advanced standing in most graduate schools of 

 forestry and are thus able to shorten the time required to obtain 

 a Master's degree. 



Graduates are prepared to go directly into practical work and 

 up to the present time there have been good opportunities foi 

 obtaining such work. There are also openings for students to 



