1948-1949 Academic Catalog

Description of Courses BIBLE Professors: Jurkat and F. Carlsen 1. Old Testament The development of the Hebrew nation and religion. Patriarchal and Hebrew Hh:;tory, the writing prophets. Three hours first semes– ter, Required. 2. New Testament A study of the life of Christ, the Acts of the Apostles, the life of Paul and his writings. Three hours, Second semester, Reqaired. 3. Biblical Ar~haeology The testimony of the monuments to the truth of the Scriptures. Two hours a week, one semester. Required in the Seminary course. '7-8 Old Testament Literature A study of the writings of the Old Testament. Elective, Three hours a week, throughout the year. Pre-requisite, Bible I. Not given every year. 9-10 New Testament Literature Pre-requisite Bible II. Elective. Not given every year. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Professor Laura Shaw 1-2 General Biology A course in biology designed to give some acquaintance with those basic principles and facts underlying all life. It is thus a cul– tural subject for those students who will take no more biology, and a foundation course for those majoring in science, health, medicine or home economics. It includes a study of the four divi sions of the plant kingdom, and some of the more important phyla of the vertebrate and 28