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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

sented from the point of view of the teacher.
362.-Teacher's Course. The Spanish language, its origins
and development. Reading of Old Spanish selections such as
Ford's Old Spanish Readings.
372.-Mission Workers' Course. Designed for those planning
to do missionary work in South America, Mexico or Cuba
or among the Mexicans in the United States. Textbook: Spanish
Bible (Valera edition. Revised is preferred).
IX. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCE.
BIOLOGY.
113.-General Zoology. A study of general biological
principles and of some of the simplest organisms. Library
assignments. Not credited unless courses 123 and 133 are
finished. Two hours recitation and four hours laboratory.
Text: Hegner's College Zoology.
123.-General Zoology. A general consideration of the invertebrate
forms, structure, functions, variations, development,
reproduction, life history, life problems and general principles
of the invertebrate phyla. Not credited unless course
133 is finished. Two hours recitation and four hours laboratory.
Text: Hegner's College Zoology.
133.-General Zoology. A general consideration of the
vertebrate forms. Classroom study of the functions, history,
and adaptations of this group of animals. Laboratory study
of frog, bird, mammal, etc. Two hours lecture-recitation.
Four hours laboratory. Prerequisite 123. Text: Hegner's
College Zoology.
145.-Elementary Botany. A study of the most important
facts regarding the structure of cells, tissues, tissue systems,
and physiological processes. Also a general survey of the
different groups of the plant kingdom. Laboratory work in
algae, fungi, mosses, ferns, seed plants and herbs. Three
hours recitation and four hours laboratory. Text: Densmore's
General Botany.
155.-Economic Botany. A study of the principal crop,
fibre, and medicinal plants. Some time will be devoted to the

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