1940-1941 Academic Catalog

38 DESCRIPTION OF COURSES DESCRIPTION OF COURSES OF STUDY BIBLE PROFESSORS STEELE AND JURKAT 1. OLD TESTAMENT Patriarchal and Hebrew History, poetry, and prophecy. Required. Three hours a week, one semester. 2. NEW TESTAMENT The life of Christ, the Acts of the Apostles, the life of Paul, the Epistles and Revelation. Required. Three hours a week, one semester. 3. BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY The testimony of the monuments to the truth of the Scrip– tures. Elective. Two hours a week, one semester. 7-8. OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE A study of the writings of the Old Testament. Elective. Three hours a week, throughout the year. Not given every year. 9-10. NEW TESTAMENT LITERATURE A study of the writings of the New Testament. Elective. Three hours a week, throughout the year. Not given every year. BIOLOGY PROFESSORS GIBSON AND HOSTETLER 3-4. NATURE STUDY Designed to cultivate observation and appreciation of the common things about us in plant life, animal life, and the earth and sky with suggested methods for teaching nature– study in the elementary schools. One hour credit each semester throughout the year. 5. INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY Study of the classification, morphology, physiology and life histories of the representative invertebrate animals. Two classes and two two-hour laboratory periods per week. Elective. First semester. · 6. VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY A comparative study of the typical vertebrates. Human comparisons. Laboratory dissection. Two class periods and two two-hour laboratory periods per week. Elective. Pre– requisite Biology 5. Second semester.