1931-1932 Academic Catalog

DESCRIPTION OF COURSES 61 argumentation. Required. Two hours a week throughout the year. Professor Steele. 5-6. EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING Instruction, constant practice, and criticism in actual public speaking. Elective. One hour a week, one semester. Pro– fessor Steele. 7-8. ADVANCED ORATORY Elective. One hour a week, one semester. Professor McChesney. 10. PARLIAMENTARY LAW Instruction in fundamental principles and actual practice in conducting public meetings. Elective. One hour a week, one semester. Not given every year. Professor Steele. 11-12. HOMILETICS Elementary Homiletics. A study of the theory and prin– ciples of the preparation and delivery of sermons. Two hours a week throughout the year. Required for candi– dates of the Gospel Ministry. Professor McChesney. 13-14. HOMILETICS Advanced Homiletics. Practice in the preparation and de– livery of sermons. One hour a week throughout the year. Required for candidates of the Gospel Ministry. Professor McChesney. PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSORMcCHESNEY 1. GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY Consciousness, sensation, perception, memory, feelings, imagination, thought, reasoning and the will. Required. Should be taken before Junior year. Three hours a week, one semester. 2. ADOLESCENCE A scientific study of the development of the adolescent mind and life. Various texts and lectures. Two hours a week, one semester. 4. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Elementary experiments .in the various phases of conscious phenomena. Elective. Prerequisite, General Psychology. Three hours a week, one semester. RELIGION PROFESSORS McCHESNEY, HOSTETLER AND STEELE 1. APOLOGETICS The evidences of Christianity and natural theology. Re– quired. Three hours a week, one semester. . 2. GENERAL COURSE IN MISSIONS The problems, possibilities, means and obligations of evan– g elizing the world, and the motives, aims, and methods of