c. / I - KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETIN VOL. 2 JULY 1, 1918 No. 10 COLLEGE EXTENSION SERIES IV HOME-STUDY SERVICE Announcement of Courses and General Information PART III— CREDIT COURSES The Service of YOUR College Brought as Near as Your Mail Box MANHATTAN, KANSAS PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE THE KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Manhattan. Board of Administration. Governor Arthur Capper, Chairman. Dr. Wilbur N. Mason. Edward W. Hoch. Charles W. Green. James A. Kimball, Business Manager. Floyd A. Baker, Assistant Business Manager. James T. Lardner, Assistant Business Manager. Administrative Officers of the Agricultural College. W. M. Jardine President J. T. Willard. .Vice President; Dean of the Division of General Science L. E. Call Acting Dean of the Division of Agriculture A. A. Potter Dean of the Division of Engineering Mrs. Mary P. Van Zile Dean of the Division of Home Economics Edward C. Johnson Dean of the Division of Extension E. L. Holton Dean of the Summer School H. L. Kent Principal of the School of Agriculture Jessie McD. Machir Registrar Department of Home-Study Service. V. L. Strickland, Acting Director. George Gemmell Agronomy D. W. Ziegler Animal Husbandry Mary M. Baird Home Economics H. H. Fenton Industrial Subjects Julia Baker Alder.. English and History V. L. Strickland Education INTRODUCTION. The following is an alphabetical list of the officers and faculty mem- bers of the College ranking above associates, many of whom have lent in- valuable assistance in preparing and organizing the work of the depart- ment of Home-Study Service. They also offer constant cooperation in handling technical questions pertaining to their respective fields of work. James Edward Ackert, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Zoology ; Parasitologist, Agricultural Experiment Station. Michael Francis Ahearn, M. S., Professor of Landscape Gardening. William Hiddleson Andrews, A. B., Associate Professor of Education. Cecil Franklin Baker, M. S., Professor of Architecture. Eleanor Hamilton Bartlett,* A. M., Assistant Professor of Domestic Science. Emery Andrew Bauer, B. S., B. P. E., Assistant Professor of Physical Education for Men. Bessie Webb Birdsall, Professor of Domestic Art. Robert Kline Bonnett, B. S., Assistant Professor of Farm Crops. Harley James Bower, M. S., Specialist in Soils, Division of College Extension. Frances Langdon Brown, A. B., B. S., State Leader of Emergency Home Demonstration Agents, Division of College Extension. Robert Henry Brown, B. M., Associate Professor of Music ; Conductor of the Orchestra. Howard W. Brubaker, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Don Lamar Burk, A. M., Assistant Professor of English. Odis Herschel Burns,! A. B., Professor of Public Speaking. Walter Horace Burr, Director of Rural Service, Division of College Extension. James Henry Burt, D. V. M., Associate Professor of Veterinary Medicine. Myron Garfield Burton,! A. B., Director of Home-Study Service, Department of College Extension. Leland David Bushnell, M. S., Professor of Bacteriology. Leland Everett Call, M. S., Acting Dean of Division of Agriculture; Acting Director Agricultural Experiment Station ; Professor of Agronomy. ♦Temporary appointment, t Absent on leave. {Resigned. (3) I 4 Home-Study Courses. Walter William Carlson, B. S., Professor of Shop Practice ; Superintendent of Shops. Zora Goodwin Clevenger, • Professor of Physical Education; Director of Athletics. Wilber Andrew Cochel, A. B., B. S., Professor of Animal Husbandry. Egbert Warren Conover, A. M., Assistant Professor of English. Lowell Edwin Conrad, M. S., Professor of Civil Engineering. John Yanzandt Cortelyou, Ph. D., Professor of Modern Languages. Ina Foote Cowles, B. S., Assistant Professor of Domestic Art. Jennie Lynn Cox, B. S., Assistant Professor of Domestic Science. Nelson Antrim Crawford, Jr., A. M., Professor of Industrial Journalism; Superintendent of Printing. Claude Carroll Cunningham, B. S., Assistant Professor of Cooperative Experiments. Hallam Walker Davis, A. M., Associate Professor of English. Wilmer Esla Davis, A. B., Assistant Professor of Botany. George Adam Dean, M. S., Professor of Entomology. Grace Emily Derby, A. B., Assistant Librarian. Albert Dickens, M. S., Professor of Horticulture. Leila Dunton, M. S., Assistant Professor of Milling Industry. Ralph Ralph Dykstra, D. V. M., Professor of Surgery. Carl John Theodore Ekblaw, Professor of Farm Engineering. James Gordon Emerson, t J. D., Professor of Public Speaking. Henry Huxley Fenton, B. S., Specialist in Industrial Subjects, Home-Study Service, Division of College Extension. James Burgess Fitch, B. S., Associate Professor of Dairy Husbandry. Leslie Arthur Fitz, B. S., Professor of Milling Industry. Eustace Vivian Floyd, B. S., Assistant Professor of Physics. Forest Faye Frazier, C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. fAbsent on leave. Part III. — Credit Courses, 5 Percy Leigh Gainey, A. M., Assistant Professor of Bacteriology; Soil Bacteriologist, Agricultural Experiment Station. Leonard Whittlesey Goss, D. B. M., Professor of Pathology. Waldo Ernest Grimes, B. S., Assistant Professor of Farm Management. Margaret Helen Haggart, A. M., Professor of Domestic Science. Otis Earle Hall, A. B., Director of Junior Extension Service, Division of College Extension. Helen Hay Halm, B. S., Assistant Professor of Home Economics and Education. John Orr Hamilton, B. S., Professor of Physics. Mary Theresa Harman, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Zoology. Andrew Cleveland Hartenbower, B. S., Superintendents of Institutes and Extension Schools, Division of College Extension. Albert Garland Hogan, t Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Aramenta Holman, Assistant Professor of Home Arts, in Charge. Edwin Lee Holton, A. B., Dean of Summer School; Professor of Education. Josiah Simson Hughes, M. S., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Ivor Victor Iles, A. M., Associate Professor of History and Civics. Elden Valorious James, A. M., Assistant Professor of History and Civics. Edward Carl Johnson, A. M., Dean of the Division of College Extension. Julius Ernest Kammeyer, A. M., LL. D., Professor of Economics. E. G. Kelly, Specialist in Entomology, Division of College Extension. Harry Llewellyn Kent, B. S., Principal of the School of Agriculture; Associate Professor of Education. Loula Esdale Kennedy, B. A., Assistant Professor of Domestic Science. Herbert Hiram King, A. M., M. S., Associate Professor of Chemistry. Royce Gerald Kloeffler, B. S., Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Josephine Leverett,* A. M., Assistant Professor of Domestic Science. *Temporary appointment, t Absent on Leave. Home-Study Courses. a William Adams Lippincott, A. B., B. S., Professor of Poultry Husbandry. John Robertson MacArthur, Ph. D., Professor of English. Theodore Macklin, B. S. A., Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics. Elizabeth Maclean, B. Ph. M. Di., Assistant Professor of English. Jonta Boen Marcellus, B. S., C. E., Associate Professor of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering; Drainag# and Irrigation Engineer, Division of College Extension. Epha Estella Mather, B. S., Assistant Leader of Emergency Home Demonstration Agents, Division of College Extension. Charles Wilbur McCampbell, B. S., D. V. M., Associate Professor of Animal Husbandry. Leo Edwards Melchers, M. S., Assistant Professor of Botany, in, Charge. Joseph Henry Merrill, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Entomology ; Assistant Entomologist, Agricultural Experiment Station. Fred D. Merritt, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Sociology and Economics. Robert Kirkland Nabours, Ph. D., Professor of Zoology; Curator of the Natural History Museum. Porter Joseph Newman, M. S., Associate Professor of Chemistry. William Patrick Joseph O’Neill, Captain U. S. Cavalry, Professor of Military Science and Tactics; Commandant of Cadets. John Huntington Parker, Assistant Professor of Farm Crops. Andrew Minie Paterson, B. S., Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry. Clinton Ellicott Pearce, S. B., Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics and Machine Design. John Christian Peterson, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Education. George E. Piper, Assistant County Agent Leader, Division of College Extension. Andrey Abraham Potter, S. B., Dean of the Division of Engineering; Director of the Engineering Experiment Station ; Professor of Steam and Gas Engineering. George Merritt Potter, D. V. M., Specialist in Veterinary Medicine, Division of College Extension. Ralph Ray Price, A. M., Professor of History and Civics. George Ellsworth Raburn, M. S., Assistant Professor of Physics. Ollie Ezekiel Reed, M. S., Professor of Dairy Husbandry; State Dairy Commissioner. Clarence Erle Reed, M. S., Professor of Electrical Engineering. Part III. — Credit Courses, 7 Benjamin Luce Remick, Ph. M., , Professor of Mathematics. Ada Rice, M. S., Assistant Principal of School of Agriculture; Assistant Professor of English. Herbert Fuller Roberts, M. S., Professor of Botany. * Samuel Cecil Salmon, B. S., Professor of Farm Crops. Adolph George Schulz, Assistant Professor of Athletics ; Assistant Coach. James William SEARSON,t A. M., Professor of English. Roy Andrew Seaton, t M. S., Professor of Applied Mechanics and Machine Design. Malcolm C. Sewell, M. S., Assistant Professor of Soils. Olive Amy Sheets, M. S., Assistant Professor of Domestic Science. Ross Madison Sherwood, B. S., Specialist in Poultry Husbandry, Division of College Extension. Charles Moses Siever, Ph. G., M. D., College Physician. Siebelt Luke Simmering, M. S., M. E., Assistant Professor of Steam and Gas Engineering. Arthur Bourne Smith, Ph. B., B. L. S., Librarian. \ Frances Lawrence Snow, Assistant Professor of Industrial Journalism. Evart Arthur Stewart, B. S., Assistant Professor of Physics. William Timothy Stratton, A. M., Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Vivan Lewis Strickland, A. M., Specialist in Educational Subjects, Home-Study Service, Division of College Extension. Charles Oscar Swanson, M. Agr., Associate Professor of Agricultural Chemistry; Associate' Chemist, Agricultural Experiment Station. Edgar Lemuel Tague, A. M., Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Assistant in Protein Chemistry, Agricultural Experiment Station. Maurice Cole Tanquary, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Entomology; Assistant Entomologist, Agricultural Experiment Station. Raymond Garfield Taylor, A. M., Assistant Professor of History and Civics. Carl Pollard Thompson, B. S., Specialist in Animal Husbandry, Division of College Extension. fAbsent on leave. 8 Home-Study Courses. Ray Iams Throckmorten, B. S., Associate Professor of Soils. Harry Umberger, B. S., County Agent Leader, Division of College Extension. Mary Pierce Van Zile, Dean of the Division of Home Economics. Claude M. Vestal, B. S. A., Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry. Harry Bruce Walker, t B. S., C. E., Associate Professor of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering; Drainage and Irrigation Engineer, Division of College Extension. John Daniel Walters, D. A., Professor of Architecture, Emeritus. Paul Smith Welch, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Entomology. Wylie Brodbeck Wendt, B. C. E., Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics. Edward Norris Wentworth^ M. S., Professor of Animal Breeding. Arthur Edgar Westbrook, A. B., B. Mus., Professor of Voice, Director of Music. Alfred Everett White, M. S., Associate Professor of Mathematics. Julius Terrass Willard, D. Sc., Vice President; Dean of the Division of General Science; Professor of Chemistry. fAbsent on leave. Part III. — Credit Courses. 9 THE HOME-STUDY SERVICE. i , THE PURPOSE OF THE HOME-STUDY SERVICE. “Efficiency” is one of the most popular words of to-day. What does it mean? As used by successful business men and manufacturers, it means the satisfactory production of their wares with the least possible outlay. Old-time methods have been discarded, modern inventions in machinery have been introduced, and every effort is being made to pro- duce abundant and high-class results with economy of effort, time, and material. This wave of thought is rapidly spreading and is touching every line of work throughout the country. Since the soil is one of man’s great- est possessions — and, figuratively, is the factory which produces the food substance for the world — surely it should receive the most thoughtful consideration and should be handled according to the best-known methods. Thousands of young men and women are pursuing various lines of agricultural training in colleges and universities, and the fact that this interest is growing by leaps and bounds, and that these college-trained young men and women are able to go out into the world and make good, is sufficient argument to justify all the effort which has been made in this line of work. However, there is a vast army of people who for many reasons are unable to attend these institutions. It has become one of the important functions of the colleges and universities to serve these people, and this has been done by adapting courses to their particular needs. Once it was thought that problems could be solved only in the class- room, where the subject matter was chosen from a textbook. To-day it is realized that the home, the farm, and the shop are calling con- tinually for the solution of problems upon which the future of the people of the state depends. A barren soil, an unprofitable herd, an insanitary home, and kitchen wastes are but petty examples of the innumerable problems to be solved. Years of experience and observation have en- abled many to solve their problems with some degree of success. How- ever, lack of scientific knowledge is responsible for many individuals ex- perimenting extravagantly and often uselessly. A combination of ex- perience and training in scientific methods would make the solution of the problems much more certain. Realizing that the citizens of the state continue to be learners, even when their school days are over, and believing that they would ap- preciate the information which the Agricultural College has been able to amass, the Kansas State Agricultural College maintains, as a part of the Division of College Extension, the Department of Home-Study Service for the purpose of offering practical assistance, not only to the young men and women, but to all other citizens who care to take advantage of the opportunity for help in their home reading and study. 10 Home-Study Courses. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE HOME-STUDY SERVICE. The Department of Home-study Service of the Division of College Extension was organized to form a close connecting link between the work of the resident classes and those who are doing extra-mural work. The instructors employed in this department were selected not only be- cause of their technical preparation, but also because they have made a careful study of the methods of correspondence teaching. They devote their entire time to this work' and can thus give their students the ad- vantage of the help of a specialist both in subject matter and in method of teaching. As all work described in this bulletin is offered for credit, it comes under the jurisdiction of the regular heads of departments and deans of the College. Students desiring advice as to substitutions or con- cessions of any sort should take up such matters with the proper dean. It will be observed that each division of the College has one or more representatives in this department. While such representatives are specifically responsible for the correspondence teaching, yet they come into very close touch with the resident instructors who are handling the same subjects, and they have full advantage of the research work being conducted in laboratories, libraries, seminars, and experiment stations. This plan of organization gives every student a personal represent- ative at the College to furnish him technical information in a form which can be most readily understood. Since this plan of organization was adopted it has proved its efficacy in the increased number of students who have completed their courses in a satisfactory manner. The department attempts to meet the widely varying needs and con- ditions of the different classes of people. To make it practicable for those who are not accustomed to regular habits of study, as well as for those who are studiously inclined, the service is rendered by three different methods : 1. Reading Courses , each of which is devoted to the discussion of a single subject or problem in a simple, brief, and nontechnical way. Every word is right to the point and so clear that it can not be mis- undersood. In order to make these Reading Courses of the greatest possible value to every home, the list of subjects is practically un- limited, and there is no charge for the service. For full explanation of these courses send for Part I of the Home-Study Service Announce- ment. 2. Vocational Courses, which are complete, comprehensive courses, covering a number of related subjects. This line of service is adapted to the needs of those who are ambitious for scientific training; it is the nearest possible home parallel to a college education. For full in- formation concerning Vocational Courses send for Part II of the Home- Study Service Announcement. 3. Credit Courses, which are offered for those who for any reason are unable to attend school and wish to do work of a type that can be used for college or high-school credit. These courses are also of value Part III. — Credit Courses. 11 to those who wish to use their time to advantage when school is not in session. The experience of the many people who have successfully and pro- fitably completed courses offered has proved' that there is a demand for the kind of work given by the Department of Home-Study Service. The sole purpose for which this department exists is that of rendering a serv- ice to you. If you fail to find the information you want, write to the Home-Study Service, Division of College Extension, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas. 12 Home-Study Courses. PART III. CREDIT COURSES. (Fee, $10 for a year’s enrollment, not to exceed eight semester credits. For nonresidents of Kansas the fee is $15 a year.) This department offers credit work by correspondence in two general lines — for entrance credit (regular accredited high-school subjects), and for college credit. All work is equal in extent and comprehensiveness to the parallel resident courses. In a general way the same prerequisites are necessary for these courses as for high-school and college courses in residence. Correspondence courses have advantages and disadvantages when com- pared with resident courses. Among the advantages is the fact that they can be taken while at home and in connection with other necessary work that makes impossible attendance at an educational institution. They also have the advantage over class work of requiring the student to work through the material in all its phases and details. This advantage has been well proven by the mastery of the subject matter by those who have completed correspondence courses, by the ease with which they have met their examinations, and by the strength shown as they have continued their work in classes. In the organization of this department every effort has been made to eliminate the disadvantages often found in correspondence-study work. Many of these disadvantages, such as absence of laboratory facilities, have been practically eliminated by the fact that no courses are offered in which strictly laboratory work is required. A plan is under consid- eration whereby certain lines of work previously presented only through the laboratory method will be handled as supervised home projects. Thereby much of this work will be rendered very effective, as it will be done under actual field conditions. The absence of library facilities is reduced to a minimum by arrange- ments made with the College library whereby students may borrow books for a reasonable length of time. The disadvantages of lack of personal contact with the instructor cannot be entirely overcome and long has been considered a great obstacle in the way of correspondence work. This, no doubt, has been well founded where the regular resident in- structors have been relied upon to handle correspondence students as a side line, but the organization of the Department of Home-Study Service provides an independent corps of instructors for correspondence-study work. These instructors have been very carefully selected, not only because of their special preparation and experience in the lines which they will teach, but also because of their unusual interest in and fitness for teaching by mail. The work of the instructor in this department is not merely a matter Part III. — Credit Courses. 13 of correcting papers, but embraces the comprehensive field of surveying the needs of each student and fitting the instruction to the individual case. Under this sort of guidance the student who is out in the field in close contact with the practical problems of life may do excellent work. The increase in the percent of students who have satisfactorily completed their courses since this plan was adopted justifies the con- clusion that many of the disadvantages of the older system of cor- respondence instruction have been overcome. These courses should be of particular interest to those who for any reason are temporarily unable to attend high school or college. They also offer opportunity for the ambitious student to use his vacation time to advantage. This department does not close for summer vacation, and therefore provides a year-round school. THE PLAN OF CREDIT COURSES. Throughout this bulletin the term “course” is used to refer to a single subject consisting of from sixteen to twenty-four lesson assign- ments. The credit courses are divided, for convenience, into two general groups — the high-school group and the college group. Each of these groups is in turn classified into groups of courses in the same general field of work. Wherever conditions will permit, the required courses named in the general College catalogue are offered. In some cases this is hardly possible by reason of the extensive laboratory and field work required. Some of the groups should be particularly valuable to the person engaged in practical work in the field. For example, the agricul- tural courses are especially valuable to teachers of agriculture; the educational courses should prove particularly attractive to public school teachers and students preparing to meet the requirements for state certifi- cates. EXAMINATION, At the close of each course, before a report card is issued, a final examination is necessary. This final examination may be taken in the office of the Department of Home-study Service at the College, or arrange- ments may be made by the student to take it locally under the city or county superintendent of schools. In the latter case the examination questions and instructions for conducting the examination are mailed from the department to the examiner, and the student’s paper is sent in by him. This final examination determines entirely the final grade in the course reported to the registrar and to the student. The preparation of papers is required throughout the course, and the papers are read, graded and commented upon solely as an aid to the student in mastering the subject matter. This form of study work gives the student such familiarity with the entire ground covered in any course, and so trains him in expressing his thought in clear-cut, concise statements that the examination presents but little difficulty. 14 Home-Study Courses. GRADES. The following system of grading used in this department is the same as that used throughout in the resident classes of the Kansas State Agricul- tural College. The quality of the work is designated by the letters “E,” “G,” “M,” “P,” “C,” “F,” and “U,” having the following significance and order of rank: The grade “E” designates really distinguished achievement, and is the net resultant of exceptionally good mental ability in conjunction with serious application. The grade “G” represents superior achievement, better than that ex- hibited by average students, but not distinguished. It is recognized as a mark of considerable honor, and is the resultant of high ability and fair application, or of fair ability and serious application. The grade “M” represents the standing of about half of all students in the college. It means achievement equal to that of average students and includes about half of all students’ grades. It indicates neither su- perior nor inferior accomplishment. The grade “P” represents achievement of a grade below that of average students. It indicates a student’s position as being in the upper part of the lower fourth of the class, and his work as being such as may be de- scribed as poor or inferior. The grade “C” meaning conditioned, is the symbol used to represent two types of inferior work: ( a ) That which is deficient in quality, and ( b ) that which is satisfactory as to quality but inadequate as to quantity. The grade “F,” meaning failure, is used to indicate work that is so un- satisfactory as to require that the work be repeated to receive credit. The letter “U,” meaning unfinished, is reported when, in the judg- ment of the instructor, the student deserves further time to complete work which has been interfered with by illness or other excusable causes of delay. This is the system of grading used in all departments of the College and is worked out on a scientific basis. The system also involves a few points as to the distribution of grades, which it is necessary for the stu- dent to know to appreciate their significance. The letters do not repre- sent certain parts of a percent scale, and cannot be expressed in percent, but are a measure of comparative strength among students, and their values are such that among a large number of students about 5 in 100 would be assigned “E,” 20 in 100 “G,” 50 in 100 “M,” 20 in 100 “P,” and 5 in 100 “F” or “U.” REPORT CARDS. Whenever a subject is satisfactorily completed and the examination passed, a report card is issued showing the name of the subject and the grade of work. This grade is turned into the registrar’s office and be- comes a matter of permanent record just as though the work had been taken in residence. The student also is furnished a copy of this report. FEES. The enrollment fee for credit courses is $10 a year. This rate applies to all residents of Kansas. (The fee required of nonresidents of the state Part III. — Credit Courses. 15 ia $15 a year.) Those who may be only temporarily employed outside of the state may enroll for the regular $10 fee provided they still claim their citizenship in Kansas. Enrollment cannot be transferred from one stu- dent to another, neither can any portion of the enrollment fee be refunded. If a student’s work is interrupted by protracted illness or military service he may, by special arrangements, secure an extension of his en- rollment period without payment of further dues. All such cases must be handled individually. Each student is expected to pay the postage on lessons, manuscripts and communications sent in to the department. This office will furnish postage for the return of all such papers to the student. This enrollment entitles the student to as much work as can be satis- factorily completed in one year, not to exceed eight semester credits un- less the work is of a very high character. In such event special arrange- ments may be made for a limited amount of additional work. TEXTBOOKS. All credit subjects are based on textbooks; these are furnished by the student. In the paragraph explaining each subject the names of the textbooks, the prices and the names of publishers are given for the con- venience of students who desire to order their books directly from the publishing companies. To assist students in getting the proper edition of the various textbooks, and also to insure prompt delivery, which is hardly possible if the books are ordered by the students from a distant company, this department has arranged with the local book stores to carry a supply of all texts, any of which will be mailed to students at ex- actly the same price as if purchased from the publisher. HOW TO ENROLL. In general, completion of the work of the eighth grade is desirable be- fore undertaking any of the high-school courses, and completion of a four-year high-school course before registering for college work. Students who are doing work in residence at the Kansas State Agricultural College or at any other educational institution may not be enrolled for correspondence-study work without the written permission of the dean or other proper authority. Some students may be permitted to carry two courses simultaneously, although usually this is inadvisable. When only one course is taken the effort is concentrated and the work can be completed in a reasonable length of time. Certain courses have prerequisites; where this is the case it will be so stated in the detailed discussion of the course. These requirements must be met before enrolling for a course. When enrolling use the blank found in this pamphlet, and indicate the course desired by name and number. Enclose this blank with the amount of the en- rollment fee, which is $10 for residents of Kansas and $15 for nonresi- dents of the State. All checks should be made payable to Director of Home-Study Service, Kansas State Agricultural College. If textbooks are to be sent from this department, enclose separate check for the cost of these and state the books that are to be sent. Never include payment for textbooks in the same check with fees or other expenses. 16 Home-Study Courses. HOW THE WORK IS CONDUCTED. As soon as enrollment card and fee have been received at the De- partment of Home-Study, assignment of readings and full instructions for studying and preparing papers will be sent. Assignments No. 1 and No. 2 will be sent first and additional assignments will be sent as rapidly as they are needed. This plan of sending out new assignments only as the completed ones come in makes it possible for the instructors to keep in close touch with the progress of the student and to offer from time to time whatever suggestions may seem necessary to guide the student in his work. As a general rule a student should make a careful study of corrections, comments and suggestions on one lesson before taking up the following one. A question sheet will be sent with each assignment or lesson, and, where necessary, a lecture prepared by the instructor in charge of the subject will be included. These lectures will contain help- ful outlines and explanations of the subject matter covered by the assignment, and will supplement the textbook with up-to-date information and applications to Kansas conditions. The lectures will be modified from time to time as new information becomes available, so that students may have the most recent opinions of the specialists in charge of the various subjects. The progress made by the student depends entirely upon his ability, preparedness, and application. As a general suggestion it might be stated that an hour a day spent in systematic study should enable the average student to complete an assignment a week. Students may work more rapidly if their opportunities permit; lessons will be received as rapidly as is consistent with good work. Under no circumstances, however, will hastily prepared manuscripts showing superficial knowledge be accepted. The questions accompanying each assignment are intended to help the student to a better understanding of the subject. After careful study of the assignment, or division of the book, the student should write his manuscript for that assignment, answering the questions carefully and concisely. This manuscript should be mailed to the Department of Home-Study Service. All lesson papers will be carefully read, criticized, marked, and returned to the student, with such comments, suggestions, advice and additional references as may be deemed necessary. This plan will be continued throughout the course, and each student should feel free to ask questions, relate his personal experience, and in every way possible get into close contact with his instructors. No effort will be spared by the department to bring about the nearest possible approach to personal acquaintanceship between each instructor and his students. Part III. — Credit Courses. 17 HIGH-SCHOOL COURSES. (College Entranpe Credit Work.) In offering the following work for- high-school credit there is no intention of competing with the high schools of the state. It is not the purpose of those who have planned the work to present a full four-year high-school course. Students who have opportunity to attend local high schools should by all means take advantage of the opportunity, for in such attendance they will be under the personal direction of their in- structors and will have the benefit to be derived from association with fellow students, as well as many other advantages which will be helpful to immature students of high-school age. These courses are offered as an aid to those who may by necessity be temporarily out of high school, who may not find the work which they desire offered locally, or who wish to carry work for high-school credit during vacation periods. It is not to be expected that a student can progress as rapidly by correspondence-study methods as he can by devoting his full time to his work when attending high school. Any stu- dent who completes a half year of high-school work in a year by cor- respondence may feel that he has done exceedingly well. These high-school courses will be especially advantageous to pro- spective college students who have entrance deficiencies, and to public- school teachers who may not have had the opportunity to do this type of work. No effort has been spared to make the work as nearly as possible parallel with the courses offered by the accredited high schools of the state. The same textbooks have been used wherever feasible and the credits issued by this department will be recognized by the colleges and State Board of Education. HIGH-SCHOOL COURSES. (See following pages for detailed discussion of each course.) AGRICULTURE. Units credit. Assignments. PCA 1 — Elementary Agriculture I y 2 20 PC A 2 — Elementary Agriculture II y 2 20 DRAWING. ♦PCD 1— Free-hand Drawing V 2 20 ♦PCD 2 — Geometrical Drawing y 2 20 PCD 3 — Mechanical Drawing I y 2 20 PCD 4 — Mechanical Drawing II y 2 20 ENGLISH. PCE 1 — Grammar and Composition y 2 20 PCE 2 — Literature V 2 20 PCE 3 — Composition x / 2 20 PCE 4 — Literature x / 2 20 PCE 5 — Composition x / 2 20 PCE 6 — Literature y 2 20 * In preparation. 18 Home-Study Courses. MATHEMATICS. Units credit. Assignments. PCM 1 — Algebra I V% 20 PCM 2 — Algebra II y 2 20 PCM 3— Algebra III 1/2 20 PCM 4 — Plane Geometry I y 2 20 PCM 5 — Plane Geometry II y 2 20 PCM 6 — Solid Geometry y 2 20 HISTORY. *PCH 1 — Ancient 1 40 *PCH 2 — Medieval *4 20 *PCH 3— Modern 1/2 20 *PCH 4 — American 1 40 * In preparation. HIGH-SCHOOL COURSES. AGRICULTURE. PCA 1 — Elementary Agriculture I, one-half unit credit, 20 assign- ments. This course is designed to cover in a thorough manner the elementary principles of several phases of agriculture. The subjects treated include improvement of plants and animals, plant growth and nutrition, soils and fertilizers, cereal crops, forage crops, and fiber crops. The outline for the work is made in careful detail, so that all of the essential points are duly emphasized. No laboratory work is required with the course, but suggestions are given for securing and using illustrative material. Text: Waters, Essentials of Agriculture. Chicago: Ginn & Company. $1.25. PCA 2 — Elementary Agriculture II, one-half unit credit, 20 assign- ments. This course is a continuation of Elementary Agriculture I. The sub- ject matter includes the study of roots and tubers, orcharding, forestry, insect pests, diseases of plants, silos and silage, animal feeding, dairying, horse production, beef cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, farm mechanics, and the business aspects of farming. The arrangement of the material and the nature of the work is similar to that described for the preceding course. Text: Waters, Essentials of Agriculture. Chicago: Ginn & Company. $1.25. DRAWING. PCD 1 — Free-hand Drawing, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. This course deals with the drawing of simple figures with a view to developing geometrical arrangement and establishing the law of design. Work in perspective is dealt with in drawing simple geometric solids. Also practice in sketching is given with work in free-hand lettering. Text: Walters, Free-hand Drawing. College. 10c. PCD 2 — Geometrical Drawing, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. A first course in the use of instruments. Treats of the construction of perpendiculars, parallels, angles, and polygons, with work in lettering and the making of simple drawings. Text: International Correspondence School, Geometrical Drawing. Scranton, Pa.: International Correspondence Schools. 40c. Part III. — Credit Courses. 19 PCD 3 — Mechanical Drawing I, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. An introductory study of mechanical drawing dealing with selection, use, and care of instruments, and including work in lettering, projections, and development of surfaces. Text: French, Engineering Drawing, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. $1.90. PCD 4 — Mechanical Drawing II, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. Prerequisite: Mechanical Drawing I. An advance study in mechanical drawing dealing with conventional methods of representation, working drawings, and technical sketching. Text: French, Engineering Drawing. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. $1.90. ENGLISH. These courses follow carefully the State Course of Study for High Schools of Kansas and give three units credit, or full college entrance re- quirements in English. Each year’s work includes two divisions: the first, composition; the second, literature. FIRST YEAR. PCE 1 — Grammar and Composition, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. In accordance with the State Course of Study, this first half year’s work in high-school English consists of a study of grammar, with em- phasis upon sentence structure. Texts: Canby & Opdycke, Elements of Composition. Chicago: The Macmillan Com- pany. 80c. Wooley, Handbook of Composition. Chicago. D. C. Heath & Co. 70c. PCE 2 — Literature, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. In this course four books, selected from the list of collateral reading as given in the State Course of Study, are read and reviewed and the fol- lowing classics are given careful study. Texts: Irving, Sketch Book, Eclectic Series. Chicago: American Book Company. 18c. Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Gateway Series. Chicago: American Book Company. 27c. Franklin, Autobiography, Eclectic Series. Chicago: American Book Com- pany. 18c. Shakespeare, As You Like It, Eclectic Series. Chicago: American Book Com- pany. 18c. SECOND YEAR. PCE 3 — Composition, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. The first semester’s work in grammar and composition is a preparation for this course, which is on composition and rhetoric. Rhetoric has more to do with effective writing and not so much with the mechanical steps of composition. In this course, therefore, the study of effective writing is undertaken. Text: Canby & Opdycke, Elements of Composition. Chicago: The Macmillan Com- pany. 80c. PCE 4 — Literature, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. The last semester of the second-year high-school English is one of the most interesting courses offered. Four books from a suggested list for collateral reading are read, and written reports based on a carefully planned outline are prepared. The following classics are studied. Texts: Scott, Ivanhoe, Eclectic Series. Chicago: American Book Company. 35c. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Standard English Classics. Chicago: Ginn & Co. 30c. Eliot, Silas Marner, Eclectic Series. Chicago: American Book Company. 20c. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Standard English Classics. Chicago: Ginn & Co. 30c. Tennyson, Idyls of the King, Eclectic Series. Chicago: American Book Com- pany. 20c. 20 Home-Study Courses. THIRD YEAR. PCE 5 — Composition, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. This semester’s work is in constructive English. It consists of a care- ful study of argumentation, drill in selecting and wording propositions, planning and writing briefs, and constructing full arguments on subjects suited to boys and girls of the third-year high school ; description, includ- ing such study of this form of composition as will enable the student to ob- serve closely, to select important features, and to describe accurately and vividly what he sees ; narration, its principles and essentials ; the story — the purpose of the study is to get the student to appreciate a good story. Many short stories are read and their good qualities emphasized. Text : Canby & Opdycke, Elements of Composition. Chicago : The Macmillan Com- pany. 80c. PCE 6 — Literature, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. In accordance with the Course of Study for High Schools of Kansas, the second semester of the third-year high-school English is planned to develop appreciation and love for literature. The work of the term has to do with drama and poetry. The following will be studied : Texts: Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, etc., Macmillan Pocket Classics. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. 25c. Sheridan, The Plays, Macmillan Pocket Classics. Chicago : The Macmillan Company. 25c. Shakespeare, Macbeth, Hudson, Edition. Chicago: Ginn & Co. 25c. English Narrative Poems, Macmillan Pocket Classics. Chicago: The Mac- millan Company. 25c. Bryant’s Poems, “I’hanatopsis, Sella and Other Poems,” edited by J. H. Castleman, Macmillan Pocket Classics. Chicago: The Macmillan Com- pany. 25c. Holmes’ Poems, edited by J. H. Castleman, Macmillan Pocket Classics. Chi- cago; The Macmillan Company. 25c. Whittier’s Snowbound and Other Early Poems, edited by A. L. Bouton, Mac- millan Pocket Classics. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. 25c. Poe’s Poems, edited by Chas. W. Kent, Macmillan Pocket Classics. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. 25c. Browning’s Shorter Poems (Cunliffe). Chicago: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 25c. MATHEMATICS. FIRST YEAR. PCM 1 — Algebra I, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. A first course in the study of algebra, following the State Course of Study for High Schools, and dealing with the four fundamental oper- ations, positive and negative values, factoring, equations, and trans- position. Text: Hawkes-Luby-Touton, Complete School Algebra. Chicago: Ginn & Co. $1.25. PCM 2 — Algebra II, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. Prerequisite : Algebra I. Follows Algebra I and deals with ratio and proportion, graphical representation, radicals and roots, and quadratic equations. Text: Hawkes-Luby-Touton, Complete School Algebra. Chicago: Ginn & Co. $1.25. THIRD YEAR. PCM 3 — Algebra III, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. Prerequisites : Algebra II. A brief advanced review of factors and factoring, followed with ad- vanced work, such as graphs, exponents, logarithms, progressions, limits and infinity, theory of equations, and the binomial theorem. Text: Hawkes-Luby-Touton, Complete School Algebra. Chicago: Ginn & Co. $1.25. Part III. — Credit Courses. 21 SECOND YEAR. PCM 4 — Plane Geometry I, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. A first course in geometry, dealing with fundamental principles, triangles, parallel lines, angles, quadrilaterals, polygons, loci, chords, arcs, tangents, secants, measurement of angles, with construction prob- lems. Text : Ford & Ammerman, Plane and Solid .Geometry. Topeka, Kan. : State Printer. 70c. PCM 5 — Plane' Geometry II,- one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. Prerequisite: Plane Geometry I. A course following Geometry I, dealing with proportion, similar tri- angles and polygons, proportional properties of chords, secants and tangents, trigonometric ratios, areas of polygons and circles, with mis- cellaneous exercises. Text : Ford & Ammerman, Plane and Solid Geometry. Topeka, Kan. : State Printer. 70c. THIRD OR FOURTH YEAR. PCM 6 — Solid Geometry, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. Prerequisite: Plane Geometry II. A course in the treatment of solids, dealing with general principles of lines and planes in space, perpendiculars, parallels, dihedral and polyhe- dral angles, prisms, parallelopipeds, pyramids, cylinders, cones, spheres, spherical angles, triangles, areas, and volumes with miscellaneous exer- cises. Text: Ford & Ammerman, Plane and Solid Geometry, Topeka, Kan. State Printer. 70c. HISTORY. PCH 1 — Ancient History, one unit credit, 40 assignments. The first year’s work in high-school history is devoted entirely to the study of ancient history down to 800 A. D., with special emphasis on Greek and Roman history. In offering this course by correspondence it is thought best to use the two sets of texts adopted by the State Board, giving equal emphasis to the political, religious, industrial, and social life of " the people who have contributed to our own civilization. Texts: Westerman, Story of the Ancient Nations. Chicago: D. Appleton & Co. $1.45. Robinson and Breasted, Outlines of European History, Part I. Chicago: Ginn & Co. $1.60. PCH 2 — Medieval History, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. This course, following the text adopted by the state, comprises a study of the period of European history from 800 A. D. to 1700 A. D. Texts: Harding, New Medieval and Modern History. Chicago: American Book Company. $1.35. Robinson and Breasted, Outlines of European History. Part I. Chicago: Ginn & Co. $1.60. PCH 3 — Modern History, one-half unit credit, 20 assignments. The last half of second-year history involves the study of the modern period, emphasizing the political, commercial, social, and religious de- velopment of the modern European nations. This course will cover the period from 1700 to the present time. Texts: Harding, New Medieval and Modern History. Chicago: American Book Company. $1.35. Robinson and Beard, Outlines of European History, Part II. Chicago: Ginn & Co. $1.45. PCH 4 — American History, one unit credit, 40 assignments. The study of American history is taken up near the close of the high- school course, when the student is somewhat familiar with the periods that precede American history. He has learned something of United 22 Home-Study Courses. States history in the grades, has acquired some knowledge of how to study history, and should be able to learn from the four texts required in this course the main steps in the history and development of his own nation: This course will consist of a survey of American history from the dis- covery of America to the present time. Texts: James and Sanford, American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $ 1 . 20 . West, American History and Government. Chicago: Allyn & Bacon. $1.90. . Bogart, Economic History of the United States. Chicago : Longmans, Green & Co. $1.75. MacDonald, Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913 (Rev. Ed.). Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.75. COLLEGE CREDIT COURSES. (See following pages for detailed discussions of each course.) DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE. AGRONOMY. Semester credits. Assignments. CA 3 — Grain Crop Production 2 16 CA 4 — Forage Crop Production 2 16 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. CL 2 — History of Breeds 2 16 CL 3 — Principles of Feeding 3 24 HORTICULTURE. CH 1— Small Fruits 2 16 CH 2 — Gardening 3 24 CH 3 — Floriculture 2 16 CH 4 — Greenhouse Construction and Management, 3 24 CF 1 — Farm Forestry 3 24 POULTRY HUSBANDRY. CPP 1 — Farm Poultry Production 1 8 DIVISION OF ENGINEERING. APPLIED MECHANICS. CE 5 — Concrete Construction 1 8 CE 2 — Mechanical Drawing 1 2 16 CE 6 — Mechanical Drawing II 3 24 CE 4 — Kinematics 3 24 CIVIL ENGINEERING. CE 1 — Highway Engineering 1 2 16 SHOP PRACTICE. CE 7 — Metallurgy 2 16 STEAM AND GAS ENGINEERING. CE 3 — Farm Motors 2 16 CE 8 — Heating and Ventilation A 2 16 CE 9 — Airplane Mechanics 1 18 DIVISION OF HOME ECONOMICS. DOMESTIC ART. CHE 1— Textiles 2 16 DOMESTIC SCIENCE. 1 . 8 CHE 2— Foods I Part III. — Credit Courses. 23 DIVISION OF GENERAL SCIENCE. ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. Semester credits. Assignments. CEC 1 — Economics 3 24 CEC 2 — Agricultural Economics 3 24 CS 2 — Rural Sociology 3 24 CS 3 — Sociology 3 24 EDUCATION (PROFESSIONAL). CP 8 — Psychology 3 24 CP 7 — Educational Administration 3 24 CP 2 — Educational Psychology 3 24 CP 4 — History of Education 3 24 CP 3 — Educational Sociology 3 24 CP 12 — Home Economics Education 2 16 CP 11 — Agricultural Education 2 16 CP 1 — Industrial 3 24 CP 5 — Principles of Education 3 24 CP 6 — Methods of Teaching 3 24 CP 9 — School Discipline 2 24 CP 10 — Rural Education 3 24 ENGLISH. CCE 1 — College Rhetoric 1 3 24 CCE 2 — College Rhetoric II 3 24 CCE 3 — Business English 3 24 CCE 4— The Short Story 3 24 GEOLOGY. CG 1 — Dynamic Geology 2 16 MATHEMATICS. CM 7 — Plane Trigonometry 3 25 DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE. Leland Everett Call, Acting Dean. Representatives of the Division of Agriculture in Department of Home-Study Service. George Gemmell, Agronomy and Horticulture. D. W. Ziegler, Animal and Poultry Husbandry. *Note — It will be noted that certain of the following courses require laboratory work. This phase of the course is not undertaken by corre- spondence, but may be deferred until the student comes for resident study. When the laboratory work is satisfactorily completed the entire credit (the text work done by correspondence plus the laboratory work done in residence) becomes effective. AGRONOMY. Professor Call. Professor Salmon. Associate Professor Throckmorton. Assistant Professor Parker. Assistant Professor Grimes. Assistant Professor Cunningham. Assistant Professor Sewell. Assistant Professor Bonnett. Instructor Zahnley. Assistant Wilson. Assistant Harling. Assistant Phinney. Fellow Tuttle. CA 3 — Grain Crop Production, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 101, Grain Crop Production, in general catalog. ♦Deferred laboratory work, 3 hours, 1 semester credit. 24 Home-Study Courses. Prerequisite: College Freshman Course in General Botany. This course specializes on the cereal crops, treating of their distribu- tion, relative importance, production, and consumption. Texts: Carleton, The Small Grains. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.75. Montgomery, The Corn Crops. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.60. CA 4 — Forage Crop Production, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 102, Forage Crop Production, in general catalog. *Deferred laboratory work, 3 hours, 1 semester credit. Prerequisite: College Freshman Course in General Botany. This course takes note of the origin, distribution, value, and produc- tion of forage crops, including sorghums, alfalfa, clover, rape, and the grasses. Special reference is made to cultivation and handling under Kansas conditions. Texts: Piper, Forage Plants and Their Culture. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.75. Wing, Meadows and Pastures. Chicago: Breeder’s Gazette Publishing Com- pany. $1.50. Borman, Sorghums. Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Farmer Company. $1.25. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. Professor Cochel. Instructor Vanderwilt. Associate Professor McCampbell. Fellow Lush. Assistant Professor Vestal. Fellow Horlacher. Assistant Professor Paterson. CL 2 — History of Breeds, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 108, History of Breeds and Pedigrees (without pedigrees) , in general catalog. ^Deferred laboratory work, which carries one semester credit, consists of a study of herdbooks and pedigrees. Prerequisites: College course, Animal Husbandry 101, Types and Classes of Livestock. A study is made of the history and development of purebred domestic animals and of the factors which have helped or hindered their develop- ment. Attention is also given to the leading families and breeders of the present. A detailed study of the history of two breeds is required. One of these breeds is the Percheron horse, while the other may be either Hereford or Shorthorn cattle. The texts for these studies are the histories of the re- spective breeds by Sanders, published by the Breeders’ Gazette Publishing Company of Chicago. Price, $2 each. Text: Plumb, Types and Breeds of Farm Animals. Chicago: Ginn & Co. $1.90. CL 3 — Principles of Feeding, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 104, Principles of Feeding, in general catalog. Prerequisites: College courses, Veterinary Medicine 205 (Anatomy and Physiology), and Chemistry 120 (Organic Chemistry). This course consists of a study of the digestive system and processes of nutrition, and of the theory of practical economy of rations for the maintenance, growth, and fattening of all classes of farm animals. Text : Henry & Morrison, Feeds and Feeding. Madison, Wis. : Henry-Morrison Company. $2.50. HORTICULTURE. Professor Dickens. Assistant Doerner. Professor Ahearn. Assistant Pratt. CH 1 — Small Fruits, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 110, Small Fruits, in general catalog. Prerequisite: College course, Horticulture 101. This course gives the student an opportunity to learn the general prin- ciples and specific adaptation to conditions of fruit growing. It includes a study of the larger range of possibilities and determining factors of Part III. — Credit Courses. 25 commercial and home production. Management of soils and crops con- sistent with fruit plantations. A study of varieties adapted to Kansas conditions, also spraying for disease and insect control. Text: Bailey, The Principles of Fruit Growing. New York: The Macmillan Com- pany. $1.75. For reference: Green, Popular Fruit Growing. St. Paul, Minn.: Webb Publishing Company. $1. CH 2 — Gardening, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 213, Gardening, in general catalog. This course presupposes the desire on the part of the student to obtain a theoretical as well as a practical knowledge of growing vegetables and fruits for home and market. Previous experience with gardening is de- sirable, and a home garden should be grown in connection with taking this course — simultaneously, if possible. Text: Lloyd, Productive Vegetable Growing. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Com- pany. $1.50. Bailey, The Principles of Fruit Growing. Chicago: The Macnjillan Company. $1.75. CH 3 — Floriculture, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. General care, selection, and arrangement of flowers and shrubs form the basis of this course. The more one knows of these choice things of nature the greater becomes the ability to appreciate them. Attention is given to the classification of ornamental plants as to their environment, soil, moisture, and temperature requirements. Text: .White, Floriculture. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.75. \ CH 4 — Greenhouse Construction and Management, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 219, Greenhouse Construction and Management, in general catalog. This course treats of the approved form and construction, location, and heating systems of greenhouses. A study of the special needs and adap- tations of greenhouse crops, control of fungous and insect enemies. The subject matter will be covered by the texts. Texts: Taft, Greenhouse Construction. New York: Orange Judd Company. $1.50. Taft, Greenhouse Management. New York: Orange Judd Company. $1.50. CF 1 — Farm Forestry, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 113, Farm Forestry, in general catalog. * Deferred laboratory work, three hours, one semester credit. This course is a study of the structure and life processes of forest trees; diseases and insect damages and methods of control; care in plant- ing and requirements for tree growth ; wood-lots in relation to farm home, protective features, utilization of waste land, cost of upkeep, and value of returns. Detailed study of trees suitable for planting in various parts of the state. Texts: Fernow, Care of Trees. New York: Henry Holt & Co. $2. Cheyney, The Farm Wood-lot. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.50. POULTRY HUSBANDRY. Professor Lippincott. Assistant Fox. Superintendent Amos. CPP 1 — Farm Poultry Production, 1 semester credit, 8 assignments. Corresponds to course 101, Farm Poultry Production, in general* catalog. * Deferred laboratory work, three hours, 1 semester credit. This course takes up the problems of poultry management on the general farm. The subjects of feeding, housing, breeding, incubation, brooding, and the preparation of poultry and eggs for market are studied. Text: Lippincott, Poultry Production. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger Co. $2. 26 Home-Study Courses. DIVISION OF ENGINEERING. Andrey Abraham Potter, Dean. Representative of the Division of Engineering in Department of Home-Study Service. H. H. Fenton. APPLIED MECHANICS. Professor Seaton. Assistant Professor Wendt. Assistant Professor Pearce. CE 5 — Concrete Construction, 1 semester credit, 8 assignments. Corresponds to course 140 in general catalog. This course treats of selection, preparation, and proportioning of materials, construction of forms, mixing and handling concrete, rein- forcements, finishing, waterproofing, and coloring, together with a study of making foundations, blocks, posts, walks and floors, tanks and cisterns, silos, and bridges and culverts. Text: Seaton, Concrete Construction for Rural Communities. New York: McGraw- Hill Book Co. $1.90. CE 2 — Mechanical Drawing I, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to courses 160 and 165 in general catalog. Prerequisite : Descriptive Geometry. Takes up selection and use of instruments, with work in lettering surfaces and intersection, methods of representation, and making work- ing drawings. Text: French, Engineering Drawing. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. $1.90. CE 6 — 'Mechanical Drawing II, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. (In preparation.) Corresponds to course 170 in general catalog. Prerequisites: Mechanical Drawing I; Kinematics. This course treats of advanced work in drawing, using actual and full drafting-room practices. The theoretical design of cams and linkages to produce required motions and velocity ratios is taken up and given prac- tical application. Gear teeth are accurately calculated and drawn from templets made according to the determined data by the student. Free- hand sketches are made of various machine parts, from which complete working drawings are produced without further reference to the object itself. Texts; French, Engineering Drawing. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. $1.90. Schwamb & Merrill, Elements of Mechanism. New York: John Wiley & Sons. $2.40. CE 4 — Kinematics, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. (In prepara- tion.) Corresponds to course 180 in general catalog. Prerequisites: Trigonometry and Descriptive Geometry. This course treats of motions and mechanisms producing motion, such as gears, cylinders, cones, belts, levers, cams, and various linkages giv- ing quick return, straightline motion, and other combinations. The graphical and mathematical solution of a great number of applied prob- lems is required. Text: Schwamb & Merrill, Elements of Mechanism. New York: John Wiley & Sons. $2.40. Part III. — Credit Courses. 27 CIVIL ENGINEERING. Professor Conrad. Assistant Professor Frazihr. Instructor Furr. CE 1 — Highway Engineering I, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Prerequisite: Applied Mechanics II. This course covers the same work as course 230 in the general catalog. It is a study of the proper location, construction, and maintenance of roads and pavements of all kinds, including earth, broken stone, brick, wood block, asphalt, and concrete, together with a study of traction re- sistances, cleaning and sanitation, and sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. Text: Frost, Art of Road Making. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. $3. SHOP PRACTICE. Associate Professor Carlson. Instructor Yost. Instructor House. Instructor Parker. Instructor Lynch. Instructor Ball. Instructor Jones. Assistant Holmes. Instructor Grant. Assistant Bundy. CE 7 — Metallurgy, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. (In prepara- tion.) Corresponds to course 165 in general catalog. This course, as the name signifies, deals with the iron industry, treat- ing of the manufacture and use of iron and steel and the various alloys in the industries. Text: Murks, Mechanical Engineers Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Co. $5. STEAM AND GAS ENGINEERING. Professor Potter. Assistant Professor Simmering. Instructor Mack. CE 3 — Farm Motors, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 140 in general catalog. A study of power-producing mechanisms, including steam boilers and engines, gas and oil engines, automobiles and tractors, water power and windmills, and electric motors and generators, giving attention to farm use of each. Text: Potter, Farm Motors. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. $1.50. CE 9 — Airplane Mechanics, 1 semester credit, 18 assignments. This is a new course, based upon Colvin’s new book, following the out- line given by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The course deals with airplane materials, construction, instruments and motors in- cluding a brief discussion on adjustments and touching very lightly upon the subject of flight as handled in the training camp. Many blank table forms for the student’s own use are included, together with some supple- mentary technical matter. Text: Colvin, Aircraft Mechanics Handbook, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., $3.00. CE 8 — Heating and Ventilating A, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Prerequisite : Engineering Physics. This course corresponds to course 180 in the general catalog, and is intended to familiarize the student with the basic principles of heating, refrigeration, and ventilating. Use of these principles is made in the practical application of heating by hot water, hot air, and steam; of ventilating by direct and indirect methods; and of cooling of air, cold storage, and ice making. Text: Hoffman, Heating and Ventilating Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co, $3.50. 28 Home-Study Courses. DIVISION OF HOME ECONOMICS. Mary Pierce Van Zile, Dean. Representatives of Division of Home Economics in Department of Home-Study Service. Mary M. Baird. DOMESTIC ART. Professor Birdsall. Assistant Harrison. Assistant Professor Cowles. Assistant Hunt. Instructor Fecht. Assistant Palmer. Instructor Jones. Assistant McDonald. CHE 1 — Textiles, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 116, Textiles, in general catalog. Prerequisite : Organic Chemistry. ^Deferred laboratory work, 3 hours, 1 semester credit. The growth, manufacture, and use of textiles is considered from the early ages to the present time with a view of enabling the student to be- come a more intelligent consumer. Samples of representative textiles are mounted, together with data concerning name, width, price, weave, design, fibers, uses, and sources. The student is urged to obtain current articles on textile subjects from periodicals. An outline of the chapters studied in each text is required, as is also a term paper on an assigned subject. Texts: O. T. Mason, Wqjnan’s Share in Primitive Culture. New York: D. Appleton & Co. $1.75. Woolman & McGowan, Textiles. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $2. DOMESTIC SCIENCE. Professor Haggart. Associate Professor Sheets. Associate Professor Cox. Assistant Professor Kennedy. Assistant Professor Bartlett. Assistant Professor Leverett. Instructor Skinner. Instructor Green. Instructor McClurg. Instructor Cape. Assistant Perry. Assistant Rchards. CHE 2 — Foods I, 1 semester credit, 8 assignments. (In preparation.) Corresponds to course 101, Foods I, of general catalog. Prerequisite: Entrance credit in Physics and .Chemistry. *Deferred laboratory work, 6 hours, 3 semester credits. Part III. — Credit Courses. 29 DIVISION OF GENERAL SCIENCE. Julius Terrass Willard, Dean. Representatives of General Science Division in Department of Home-Study Service. V. L. Strickland Julia Baker Alder ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. Professor Kammeyer. Assistant Professor Macklin. Assistant Professor Merritt. CEC 1 — Economics, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 101, Economics, in general catalog. A study of economic principles underlying the phenomena of produc- tion, consumption, exchange, and distribution of wealth, including a gen- eral survey of the state in its relation to industry, transportation, public utilities, insurance, and socialism. Text: Ely, Outline of Economics. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.85. CEC 2 — Agricultural Economics, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 102, Agricultural Economics, in general catalog. Undertakes to familiarize the students with the economic principles and forces with which every farmer must deal. The relative profitability of farm enterprises, the proportion in which the factors of production should be combined for the optimum results, and other phases of pro- duction are followed by the laws of values and the important ques- tions connected with the exchange of farm products and the ultimate dis- tribution of farm wealth. Texts: Taylor, Agricultural Economics. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.25. Ely & Wicker, Elementary Economics. Chicago : The Macmillan Company. $ 1 . 10 . CS 1 — Rural Sociology, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 224, Rural Sociology, in general catalog. A study of the social forces peculiar to and potent in rural life; rural organization and growth; rural ideals apart from and related to city ideals. Texts: Gillette, Constructive Rural Sociology. New York: Sturgis & Walton Com- pany. $1.60. Gill & Pinchot, The Country Church. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.25. Coulter, Cooperation Among Farmers. New York: Sturgis & Walton. $1. CS 2 — Sociology, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 201, Sociology, in general catalog. A course designed to give the student a knowledge of social forces, in- stitutions, and ideals, and the fundamental principles of social develop- ment. Texts: Dealy, Sociology. Chicago: Silver, Burdett & Co. $1.50. Cooly, Social Organization. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.50. 30 Home-Study Courses. education. Professor Holton. Associate Professor Kent. Associate Professor Andrews. Assistant Professor Halm. Assistant Professor Peterson. CP 8 — Psychology, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 101, Psychology, in general catalog. A general introduction to the forms and laws of conscious experience as based upon a knowledge of the psychological conditions of mental life. Texts: James, Psychology (briefer course). New York: Henry Holt & Co. $1.50. Pillsbury, Essentials of Psychology. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.25. CP 7 — Educational Administration, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 105, Educational Administration, in general catalog. This course is a study of the organization of state, city, and county school systems, and the administrative problems arising in them; the re- lation and functions of boards of education, superintendents, principals, and teachers. Rural and vocational schools are given special emphasis. The school law of Kansas is an important part of the course. Texts: Dutton, School Management. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1. Shaw, School Hygiene. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1. Kansas School Laws. CP 2 — Educational Psychology, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. (In preparation.) Corresponds to course 109, Educational Psychology, in general catalog. Prerequisite : General Psychology. Required for state teacher’s certificate. This course deals with applied psychology in the field of education. The results of experimental investi- gations will be given attention. Text : t CP 4 — History of Education, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 113, History of Education, in general catalog. This course is intended to present the successive relationships that have existed between educational machinery and practices, and the changing political, economic, scientific, cultural, and ideal environment from primi- tive times to the present. Texts : Graves, A History of Education. Three volumes : Before the Middle Ages, During the Middle Ages, In Modern Times. Chicago : The Macmillan Com- pany. $1.10 each. CP 3 — Educational Sociology, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. (In preparation.) Corresponds to course 118, Educational Sociology, in general catalog. This course deals with the concrete objectives of education considered as a process of social adjustment, the meaning of education in a democ- racy, the educative function of the home, the community, the church, and the school; and the school as a Special environment; the meaning of labor and leisure; cultural and vocational education; intellectual and practical studies; physical and social studies. Text: CP 12 — Home Economics Education, 2 semester credits, 16 assign- ments. (In preparation.) Corresponds to course 121, Education, in general catalog. Prerequisites: Three years’ college work, including Educational Ad- ministration. This course deals with the study from the administrative standpoint, Part III. — Credit Courses. 31 and is not intended for a technical or methods course. A study is made of the best up-to-date practice and underlying theory, organization, courses of study, equipment, national, state, and local provisions, etc. Text : CP 11 — Agricultural Education, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 125, Education, in general catalog. Prerequisite: Three years’ college work, including Educational Ad- ministration. This course approaches the study from the administrative standpoint, and is not intended for a course in technical agriculture or methods of teaching. A study is made of the practice in and provisions for agri- cultural education in this and other states as well as in foreign countries. The bearing of historical developments and present conditions on agri- cultural education, courses of study, adjustment to local needs, and equipment are considered. Texts: Leake, The Means and Methods of Agricultural Education. Chicago: Hough- ton Mifflin Company. $2. Free government and state bulletins. CP 1 — Industrial Education, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 129, Industrial Education, in general catalog. Prerequisite : Educational Administration. Desirable for all candidates for state teachers’ certificates who are preparing to teach manual training, shop work, trade courses, or other industrial subjects. This is a study of the historical development of industrial training, the present demands for it, conditions to be met, and problems arising. It includes a review of foreign systems, and of the present status in the United States, giving particular stress to successful developments fitting our modern demands, and national and state aid. Texts: Leake, Industrial Education. Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. $1.25. Davenport, Education for Efficiency. Chicago: D. C. Heath & Co. $1. Dean, The Worker and the State. New York: The Century Company. $1.20. Snedden, The Problem of Vocational Education. Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. 35c. Government bulletins. CP 5 — Principles of Education (Philosophy of Education), 2 semes- ter credits, 16 assignments. A study of the theory underlying educational organization and prac- tice; of conflicting interests and their harmonization. Texts: Horn, Philosophy of Education. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.50. O’Shea, Social Development and Education. Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Com- pany. $2. CP 6 — Methods of Teaching, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. A study of the problems and technique of teaching, classroom or- ganization, the teacher’s preparation and growth, and special methods. Texts: Bagley, Classroom Management. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.25. McMurry, Methods of the Recitation. Chicago : The Macmillan Company. 90c. Thorndike, Principles of Teaching. New York: A. G. Seiler Company. $1. CP 9 — School Discipline, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. A specific and intensive study of the problem of discipline and its underlying principles from the standpoint of school efficiency. Texts: Bagley, School Discipline. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1. Morehouse, The Discipline of the School. Chicago : D. C. Heath & Com- pany. $1. CP 10 — Rural Education, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 201, Rural Education, in the general catalog. A study of the special problems of the rural school, its differentiation 32 Home-Study Courses. from the city school, and of the various social institutions and organiza- tions in the open country that are related to the problem of education. Texts: Kirkpatrick, The Rural School from Within. Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company. $1.25. Betts & Hall, Better Rural Schools. Indianapolis, Ind. : Bobbs-Merrill Com- pany. $1.25. ENGLISH. Professor Searson. Assistant Professor Maclean. Professor Macarthur. Instructor Leonard. Associate Professor Davis. Instructor Russel. Assistant Professor Rice. Instructor Hazlett. Assistant Professor Burk. Instructor Syford. Assistant Professor Conover. CCE 1 — College Rhetoric I, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 101, College Rhetoric I, in general catalog. The^first assignments consist of a thorough but rapid review of the essentials of English, with special emphasis on the sentence and para- graph. These are followed by themes designed to develop the student’s ability to tell accurately what he knows, to describe vividly what he sees, and above all to enable him to relate the subject of English to the work which he expects to do in later life. Texts: Lomer & Ashmun, The Study and Practice of Writing English. Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. $1.25. Cunliffe and Lomer, Writing of To-day. New York: The Century Company. $1.15. CCE 2 — College Rhetoric II, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 104, College Rhetoric II, in general catalog. Prerequisite: College Rhetoric I. This is a continuation of the work in College Rhetoric I. Special emphasis is placed on outlining, on sentence structure, and on expository, narrative, and descriptive writing. Attention is directed to practical as well as literary subjects for the frequent themes prepared through- out the course. Texts: Canby and Others, English Composition in Theory and Practice. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.25. Cunliffe and Lomer, Writing of To-day. New York: The Century Company. $1.15. CCE 3 — Business English, elective, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 122, Business English, in general catalog. Prerequisite: College Rhetoric II. More calls have been made for business English than for any other course in English, so during the year a practical course in business Eng- lish will be written. It will consist of a thorough review of correct business forms and general business writing, with emphasis upon busi- ness correspondence and sales letters, night letters, and telegrams. A close study will be made of the principles of effective writing as they are applied in the best writing of the commercial world. Text: Gardner, The Effective Business Letter. New York: The Ronald Press Com- pany. $1.50. CCE 4 — The Short Story, elective for graduates and undergraduates, 3 semester credits, 24 assignments. Corresponds to course 251, The Short Story, in general catalog. Prerequisites: English Literature I or Composition and Literature II. Practice in writing short stories, based upon a thorough study of the world’s best short stories, is offered in this course. The principles which underlie the matter and structure of the short story: plot, setting, action, and character analysis, are especially emphasized. Texts: Esenwein, Writing the Short Story. New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldridge. $1.25. Ashmun, Modern Short Stories. Chicago: The Macmillan Company. $1.25. Esenwein, Studying the Short, Story. New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldridge. $1.25. Part III. — Credit Courses. 33 GEOLOGY. Professor Nabours. Associate Professor Newman. CG 1 — Dynamic Geology, 2 semester credits, 16 assignments. Corresponds to course 101, Dynamic and Structural Geology, in gen- eral catalog. This course consists of a brief study of the structure of the earth, of the agencies by which rocks are formed or destroyed, and of the topographic features produced by these agencies. Texts: Chamberlin and Salisbury, Introductory Geology. New York: Henry Holt & Company. $2. Wooster, Geological Story of Kansas. Topeka, Kan. : Crane & Co. 15c. MATHEMATICS. * Professor Remick. Instructor Zeininger. Associate Professor White. Instructor Fehn. Assistant Professor Stratton. Instructor Holroyd. CM 7 — Plane Trigonometry, 3 semester credits, 25 assignments. Corresponds to course 101, Plane Trigonometry, in general catalog. Prerequisites: Plane Geometry and lh years of High-School Algebra. This course treats of the functions of acute and oblique angles and triangles with supplementary practical problems. Text: Palmer & Leigh, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. New York: McGraw- Hill Book Company. $1.50. V \ DEPARTMENT OF HOME-STUDY SERVICE. EXTENSION DIVISION. KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Enrollment Blank. Date Applicant’s full name Age Present address County State PREVIOUS EDUCATION. Years of high-school work completed Graduate.. Name of high school Colleges or universities attended, and time in each Degrees, if any, received..... Present occupation Correspondence course wanted Remarks: Please fill in all of the above blanks. If a resident of Kansas, accompany this blank with $10; if a nonresident of the state, with $15. 3 01121 05654724 THE KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OFFERS College Courses in agriculture, general science, home economics, veteri- nary medicine, architecture, civil, electrical, flour mill and mechanical engineering, and industrial journalism. These are four-year courses leading to degrees. Students are accepted who can offer for entrance fifteen units of high-school work or its equiva- lent. The School of Agriculture (secondary school) offers courses in agri- culture, home economics, and mechanic arts. These are three-year courses leading to a diploma. Students are accepted from grade and from rural schools. Short Courses are offered as follows: Creamery course, ten weeks, beginning in January; farmers’ short courses in agriculture and in engi- neering, ten weeks, beginning in January; and housekeepers’ course in home economics, twenty-five weeks, beginning in September. A Summer School of nine weeks, beginning in June, offers courses in agriculture, general science, home economics, mechanic arts, and related subjects. These courses are particularly adapted for teachers; others, also, may attend. For full information, write to W. M. Jardine, President , Manhattan, Kan. □ KANSAS STATE PRINTING PLANT W. R. SMITH. State Printer TOPEKA. 1918