1940-1941 Academic Catalog

DESCRIPTION OF COURSES FRENCH MISS NIESTRATH 1-2. BEGINNING FRENCH 47 Colloquial practice, easy readings, grammar, composition, and dictation. Elective. Four hours a week throughout the year. 3-4. INTERMEDIATE FRENCH Composition, conversation, dictation, grammar. Study of texts from some of the best French novelists, short story writers, and dramatists. Prerequisite, French 1-2 or two years of high school French. Elective four hours a week throughout the year. 5-6. ADVANCED FRENCH. This course is intended to develop free oral and written ex– pression in French and to develop reading ability. Special emphasis upon French literature of the nineteenth century. Elective. Three hours a week throughout the year. 7-8. ADVANCED FRENCH This course is intended for advanced students who have tak– en course 5-6. Selected readings from French literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 9-10. ADVANCED FRENCH A course for students who have had course 5-6. This course is arranged to meet the needs of student3 who wish a major in French. GEOLOGY PROFESSORS ,TURKAT AND HOSTETLER 1. PRINCIPLES OF GEOGRAPHY Consideration of the elements of natural environment, such as climate, soils, relief, natural resources, etc., and their relation to the economic life of man. Three hours, first semester. 2. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY A study of man's activities in the production of economic commodities as related to his natural environment. Three hours, second semester. 3-4. GENERAL GEOLOGY Dynamic and historical geology. Field work required. Three hours a week. Two semesters.