1931-1932 Academic Catalog

60 DESCRIPTION OF COURSES 2. LOGIC Terms, propositions, syllogisms, fallacies. Required. Three hours a week, one semester. 4. ETHICS Theoretical and practical ethics. Virtues, freedom, duty and individual and social obligations. Required. Three hours a week, one semester. PHYSICS PROFESSOR DAVIS 1-2. GENERAL PHYSICS Mechanics, heat, electricity, sound, and light. Prerequisites: One year of elementary physics, one semester of trigonome– try and one semester of college algebra. Elective. Four hours a week throughout the year. POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSORS STEELE AND JURKAT 1-2. INTERNATIONAL LAW Elective. Three hours a week. First semester. Professor Steele. 3-4. AMERICA AND THE ORIENT A study of the industrial resources of the Orient:-Asiatic markets; relations of the United States and the Far East. Elective. Three hours, second semester. Professor Steele. 5. POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES A study of political parties and party problems in the United States. Three hours a week, one semester. Pro– fessor Jurkat. PUBLIC SPEAKING PROFESSORS McCHESNEY AND STEELE 1. PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC SPEAKING The fundamentals of effective speaking, principles of breathing, voice producing, enunciation, and action; delivery of extracts from the works of writers and speakers. Re– quired. Two hours a week, first semester. Professor McChesney. 2. ORATORY The distinctive characteristics of oratorical style; the mas– terpieces of representative orators are analyzed, and the principles thus discovered applied in the writing and de– livery of original orations. Required. Two hours a week, second semester. Professor McChesney. 3-4. ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATING Argumentation, analysis, evidence, persuasion. Brief-draw– ing. Written arguments. Oral debating. The theory of