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Curricula of the Colleges of Applied Science. 107

CURRICULA OF THE COLLEGES OF

APPLIED SCIENCE.

Colleges of Mechanics, Mining, and Civil Engineering. The special features of the curricula are as follows: (1) A minimum fouryear course of fifteen units per week, exclusive of Physical Culture and Military Science, has been provided. Including the time given to preparation of studies, this course requires of the student an average of forty-five hours per week. In this minimum course only such studies are included as are essential to professional training. (2) Few studies are pursued at the same time, and they are as nearly as possible interdependent. (3) The relation of practical application to theory is emphasized. Instruction is from the beginning illustrated by exercises in the laboratory, the draughting-room, and the field. (4) An effort is made to utilize the vacations of students for further application of their knowledge in the direction of future professional pursuits. For this purpose summer schools in Surveying, Practical Mining, Mechanical Practice, and Astronomy have been organized. (5) In addition to the minimum of fifteen units* per week, students without deficiencies are allowed to elect four units per week from any of the courses given in the University for which they have the necessary preparaton. In general, students are advised to choose these additional units of study from courses in Modern Languages and Literatures, History, and Political Economy. But they may, if they so desire, pursue special lines of technical study in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Petrography, Mechanics, Surveying, Electricity, Mining, and Metallurgy, in addition to the minimum requirements prescribed in the respective colleges.

The sequence of studies in the colleges of engineering is such that students who enter in January, instead of in August, will, as a rule, require four and a half years to complete the full course.

Colleges of Agriculture and Chemistry. The curricula are organized upon a basis somewhat similar to that of the Colleges of General Culture, but the Prescribed studies are determined with a view to the

*The unit of credit is one hour of lecture or recitation per week for one half-year; hours in laboratory or field not requiring preparation are estimated at a lower rate than recitations and lectures.

technical as well as the general training of the student, and the Group or Cognate Elective includes in proper proportion advanced courses characteristic of the college. In the College of Chemistry, about onehalf of the course is prescribed, one-quarter of the course consists of Free Electives, and one-quarter of Group Electives, but the greater part of the Group Elective must be in Chemistry. The remainder of the Group Elective may be chosen from allied subjects. In the College of Agriculture about two-thirds of the course is prescribed in preliminary, liberal, and technical studies. The remainder consists of Free Electives and electives consisting of Agriculture and cognate studies.

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE.

FACULTY.

The Faculty of each College consists of the President of the University and the resident Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and Lecturers giving instruction in the College.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSE.

The requirements for admission are: (A) Oral and Written Expression, (1) English, (3) Algebra, (4) Plane Geometry, (5) History and Government of the United States; (11) Physics, either (6) Latin or (8) Greek or (14) English or (15a) French or (156) German, (126) Chemistry, and either (12a) Advanced Mathematics or (12c) Botany or (12d) Zoology. Furthermore, an equivalent in Entomology will be accepted in lieu of (12d) Zoölogy.

Preparation in the branches of natural science named above is valuable, not so much for the actual knowledge of facts it brings, as for the habit of accurate observation it should enforce. Hence, instruction with objective demonstration by competent teachers is strongly recommended. Its proper conduct in the various branches is indicated on page 67. Previous experience of farm life and work is, of course, a valuable adjunct.

The requirements for graduation from this college, with the degree of B.S., are set forth in the following scheme.* The studies are explained in detail in the description of the Courses of Instruction.

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ENGLISH (1) General History English Literature....
MILITARY SCIENCE (1) Two exercises each week....
PHYSICAL CULTURE.

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Totals

161

16

*In the scheme as here tabulated, alternative electives are indicated by means of parentheses inclosing the figures in the columns headed "Units."

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MILITARY SCIENCE-(1) Two exercises each week...
PHYSICAL CULTURE......

Totals

Junior Year.

14-15 14-15

AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY-(1A) (1B) General Course
FRENCH-(2) Second year French.

Or GERMAN-(2) Schiller

COGNATE ELECTIVES-Agriculture and one of the following: Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Meteorology, Biological Sciences, Engineering..

FREE ELECTIVES.

MILITARY SCIENCE (1) Two exercises each week......

Totals

Senior Year.

AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE (4) General
Course

COGNATE ELECTIVES: Agriculture and one of the
following: Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Meteor-
ology, Biological Sciences, Engineering

FREE ELECTIVES.

THESIS-An original study under the direction of the Professor of Agriculture.......

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MILITARY SCIENCE-(2A) (2B) Theoretical Course.

Totals

15

3

5

16

15

Special Students. Students in Agriculture not desiring to take the full course may be admitted to special or limited courses. Persons

*Students intending to take Chemistry as a cognate Elective in the Junior year must elect Chemistry 5 in the Sophomore year.

desiring to enter as Special Students or as Limited Students are advised to correspond with the Professor of Agriculture.

To students unable to give more than two years to their studies, the following course is suggested:

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Agriculture and Horticulture

Agricultural Elective (including Botany and Ento

mology)

Free Electives

Military Science

Physical Culture

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Opportunities Afforded by the Experiment Station. The peculiar conditions of California with regard to soil, climate, and situation, have rendered useless, for farmers here, much of the experience of older regions, and have made imperative a new study of the bearing of these conditions upon the agriculture of the State and of the Pacific Slope. The College of Agriculture has for twenty years conducted an experiment station, where questions of this nature have been investigated and determined, and where data for a full knowledge and description of the agricultural features of the State are collected and organized. In recent years, aid from the Government of the United States has greatly extended the scope of such investigation by the establishment of four out-lying culture sub-stations, and by making possible a more comprehensive plan of experimentation in the central station at Berkeley. Here the results of work at all the sub-stations are elaborated, discussed, and published in the form of occasional bulletins, or in the annual reports. Advanced students have the opportunity of taking such part in this work as their qualifications permit.

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