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 THIRD SERIES. Vol. V, No. 7 
 
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 SUMMEK SESSION 
 
 June 24 to August 3, 1912 
 
 
 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 
 
 OF COURSES IN 
 
 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 
 
 JANUARY, 1912 
 
 
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ADMINISTRATIVE BULLETINS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 1911-12. No. 8 
 
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
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 SUMMER SESSION 
 
 June 24 to August 3, 1912 
 
 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 
 
 OF COURSES IN 
 
 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 
 
 JANUARY, 1912 
 
A special announcement of the courses in Physical Education will he 
 ready January 15; in Music, March 15. After April 1, a Bulletin 
 containing full information regarding the entire Summer Session, with a 
 detailed announcement of courses in all departments, will he sent on 
 application to the Dean of the Summer Session, California Hall, Berkeley, 
 California. 
 
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 SUMMER SESSION OF THE ACADEMIC COLLEGES, 1912 
 
 Dates 
 
 Monday, June 24, to Saturday, August 3. 
 
 Registration 
 
 Saturday, June 22, and Monday, June 24, at the office of the Recorder 
 of the Faculties, California Hall. On these days fees may be paid from 
 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. 
 
 Admission 
 
 No entrance examinations are required. Courses are open to any 
 person of good moral character and of sufficient intelligence to profit 
 thereby. 
 
 Fees 
 
 The tuition is $15, regardless of the number of courses taken. This 
 payment entitles the student to the full privileges of the University 
 Library. The fee is required of those who wish to attend as auditors 
 merely as well as of those who wish to undertake systematic class work 
 and examination. 
 
 Credit 
 
 Credit toward a University degree is in every case subject to the 
 requirement that the student shall qualify as a regular matriculant, either 
 by passing the entrance examinations or otherwise. 
 
 In general, credit will be given at the rate of one unit for fifteen 
 exercises. A course of five lectures weekly during six weeks would have 
 a credit value of two units. Credit may be given, in due proportion, for 
 a smaller number of exercises, when these are of more than the usual 
 length (which for lectures and recitations is about fifty-three minutes). 
 
 The normal amount of credit obtainable during the session, by a 
 student who devotes his whole time to courses strictly of university 
 grade, is six units. A bachelor’s degree represents 124 or more units of 
 credit, distributed according to the requirements of the college in which 
 the degree is conferred. 
 
 One year’s residence at the University is required of students for a 
 master’s degree. Two summer sessions may be rated as the equivalent 
 of one half-year of such residence, thus making it possible for a student 
 
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 to secure a master’s degree in one term at the University and two summer 
 sessions, or in four summer sessions. 
 
 In all cases where work is satisfactorily completed a certificate of 
 record will be given, upon application, even though the student be not a 
 University matriculant. 
 
 Accommodations and Expenses 
 
 There are many boarding-houses and private homes in Berkeley where 
 students may obtain board and lodging at prices ranging from $25 to 
 $35 per month. As the greater number of the regular students are not 
 in Berkeley during the summer, there are ample accommodations for all 
 members of the Summer Session. Families or groups of students desiring 
 to club together are often able to find apartments, cottages, or bunga¬ 
 lows, furnished for housekeeping. A list of places offering board and 
 lodging, or either alone, is kept on file, and every possible assistance will 
 be given to strangers in their search for suitable boarding places. It 
 will usually be found more satisfactory to engage board and lodgings 
 after arrival in Berkeley, The whole expense of attendance at the 
 Summer Session, exclusive of railroad fare and laboratory fees, need not 
 exceed $65 or $70. 
 
 Reduced Railroad Fares 
 
 Reduced rates of one first-class round trip at the rate of a fare and 
 a third are offered by the railroads from all points in California. 
 
 Evening Lectures and Concerts 
 
 In addition to the regular courses of the Summer Session arrangements 
 will be made for a series of evening lectures and musical entertain¬ 
 ments. All members of the Summer Session who have paid the regular 
 tuition fee of $15 will be admitted to the evening lectures upon pre¬ 
 senting their registration cards. 
 
 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF COURSES IN 
 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 
 
 The work will be arranged under the following heads: nature-study, 
 school gardens, elementary school agriculture, high school biological science 
 and agriculture, graduate study in any of the foregoing subjects. The 
 chief aim will be to give definite, practical help to the individual teacher 
 who is interested in any of these subjects. The scope of the work will 
 be so broad that teachers of all grades, including normal school and 
 college instructors, may find something worth while. 
 
 The staff will be composed of experienced teachers. Dr. Maurice A. 
 Bigelow, Professor of Biology in Teachers’ College, Columbia University, 
 will have general supervision of the work. Professor Bigelow has been 
 
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 a leader in the nature-study movement and for several years was editor 
 of The Nature-Study Review and secretary of the American Nature-Study 
 Society. In his supervision of the work in Horace Mann School, Teachers’ 
 College, he has had ample opportunity to select the best in subject matter 
 and method in nature-study and high school biological science. Through 
 his joint work with F. E. Lloyd entitled ‘ ‘ Teaching of Biology in the 
 Secondary School,” he has become known to the high school teachers 
 interested in the zoological and physiological phases of biology. The 
 recent publication of his high school text, ‘^Applied Biology,” marks a 
 forward step in secondary education. Altogether, Professor Bigelow’s 
 coming is decidedly opportune. 
 
 Mr. W. G. Hummel is an instructor in agricultural education in the 
 University of California. A graduate of the Illinois College of Agri¬ 
 culture, he has had considerable experience in experiment station service 
 and teaching. Since coming to California he has taught agriculture with 
 success in Oxnard and Fresno high schools. Now his time is largely 
 devoted to the problems of high school instruction in agriculture, and, 
 as official visitor for the division, he is in very close touch with conditions 
 in this State. At the same time through his technical knowledge he is 
 well qualified to give the informational course for elementary school¬ 
 teachers. 
 
 Mr. F. H. Bolster, Instructor in Botany and Horticulture in the 
 University Farm School, at Davis, is a teacher of wide and successful 
 experience. After teaching in the East and supervising in the Philip¬ 
 pines, he undertook post-graduate study in the University of California, 
 qualified for the state certificate, and became science teacher at Gardena, 
 the first high school to introduce instruction in agriculture. Later he 
 introduced the agricultural work in Oxnard High School. He is prepared 
 to help every teacher who elects to study under him. 
 
 Mr. C. A. Stebbins, Instructor in Agricultural Education in the 
 University of California, is becoming known throughout the State through 
 The Junior Agrieulturist, the children’s paper which he edits, and the 
 California Junior Gardening Club, which he superintends. No doubt 
 many teachers who have been helped through the interest in gardening 
 which he has aroused in their pupils will want to come to Berkeley next 
 summer to see the original ^‘garden city” and to prepare to teach 
 agriculture. 
 
 Nearly every teacher who comes for any of the work announced in 
 this circular will desire suggestions and advice in regard to the improve¬ 
 ment and decoration of the school grounds. Miss Katherine D. Jones, 
 Assistant in Agricultural Education, has been retained for the purpose 
 of giving this personal attention to individual teachers. This is a new 
 
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 arrangement made in response to a demand and it is expected that many- 
 wili avail themselves of it. 
 
 The following courses have been definitely arranged. The description 
 of each course is to some extent tentative, but while minor details may 
 be changed the main features indicated here will be observed by the 
 respective instructors. 
 
 I. Nature-Study 
 
 1. General Course with Laboratory. 
 
 Professor Bigelow and Mr. Stebbins. 
 
 A comprehensive course combining educational discussions with study 
 of subject matter through the use of illustrative material with which 
 teachers ought to be familiar. Some of this illustrative material will be 
 presented in the form of type lessons which will serve as a basis for the 
 educational discussions. 
 
 The laboratory work will be planned to supplement the type lessons 
 and educational discussions through the first-hand study of subject matter. 
 It will consist of a series of exercises on seeds, germination, soil, capil¬ 
 larity, insect life-histories, birds, plants, and other objects and processes. 
 Daily lectures with demonstrations and daily laboratory. 
 
 2. Pro-seminar. Professor Bigelow. 
 
 Bound table conferences on current problems of nature-study teaching 
 
 —introduction, organization, methods, supervision, correlation, relation 
 to school gardens and agriculture. Designed especially for superintend¬ 
 ents, principals, supervisors, and teachers who are especially .interested. 
 1 hr., T H. 
 
 II. School Gardens 
 
 3. Gardens and Garden Practice. Mr. Bolster. 
 
 The course will consist of (1) class-room work and (2) actual practice 
 in growing vegetables and flowers. 
 
 The class-room exercises will consist of lectures, recitations, and 
 reports upon the planning and planting of school and home gardens— 
 fundamental principles of landscape art, selection of plants, making of 
 plans. This work may involve the study of a text and consultation of 
 works on gardening and ornamental plants. 
 
 The garden practice will be carried on in a special garden which will 
 accommodate forty students. No fee will be charged for this course, but 
 each student is expected to furnish his own garden tools and seeds. The 
 total cost of these is about $2.25. After the gardens are planted the 
 
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 practice work may include exercises in plant propagation, seedage methods, 
 making and rooting cuttings, potting, budding, and grafting. 
 
 Lectures and recitations, M W F. Practice Tu Th. 
 
 4. Training Course in School Garden Supervision. Mr. Stebbins. 
 
 This course will consist largely in the management, under supervision, 
 
 of elementary school pupils who work in the children’s gardens on the 
 University campus. This will include frequent conferences with the 
 instructor in charge. The pupils, about two hundred in number, are 
 organized into an embryo community called ‘ ‘ The Garden City. ’ ’ All 
 the activities included in the production and marketing of vegetables 
 and flowers and the business of banking will be in operation. There 
 will be ample opportunity for interesting work in supervision for as many 
 as wish to undertake it. A daily appointment of at least one hour in 
 the garden city, or the equivalent, will be required with the necessary 
 conferences. 
 
 III. Elementary School Agriculture 
 
 5. Farm Crops and Livestock. Mr. Hummel. 
 
 The course will consist in the presentation of some of the most im¬ 
 portant subject matter included in grammar school agriculture—the 
 fundamental principles of seedage, irrigation, and tillage; a detailed 
 study of typical crops, such as wheat, alfalfa, potato, peach, apple, 
 orange; a study of types, breeds, care and improvement of the horse, the 
 dairy cow, and poultry. 
 
 Daily lectures with supplementary reading. Students wall be expected 
 to provide themselves with Hilgard and Osterhout’s ‘‘Agriculture for 
 Schools of the Pacific Slope. ’ ’ 
 
 IV. High School Biological Science and Agriculture 
 
 6. The Teaching of Biological Sciences in the High School. 
 
 Professor Bigelow. 
 
 This course will consider the aims and values of secondary school 
 science, the place of the biological sciences, comparative study of typical 
 courses, organization and equipment, present tendencies and needs in 
 science teaching. Teachers intending to enroll in this course may profit¬ 
 ably familiarize themselves with Professor and Anna N. Bigelow’s new 
 high school text, “Applied Biology” (The Macmillan Company). The 
 following extract from the preface will give a suggestion as to the aims 
 of the authors in preparing this work. 
 
 ‘ ‘ This book is intended for use as a combined text-book and practical 
 guide for a year’s course of five hours per week. It attempts to select 
 from the fields of botany, zoology, and human biology the essential facts 
 and especially the great ideas of the science of life which are of interest 
 
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 to the average intelligent person who has no time and reason for more 
 extensive study of biology. 
 
 ‘^The word ‘applied’ in the title of this volume should not be under¬ 
 stood in the limited sense of economics, nor solely with reference to 
 human physiology and hygiene. It is true that in these two lines biology 
 has vastly important applications to human life, but it must not be over¬ 
 looked that in certain phases the science has value in the intellectual and 
 aesthetic life of cultured citizens. Hence, in the most liberal interpre¬ 
 tation, ‘applied biology’ must present those facts and ideas of the science 
 which apply to human life in its combined intellectual, aesthetic, economic, 
 and hygienic outlook. It has been the aim of the authors to select for 
 this book the facts and ideas in these lines which seem best adapted to 
 that stage of education which for the vast majority of students is the 
 climax of formal education. In other words, it has been attempted to 
 present the science of biology applied to the daily life of the average 
 intelligent citizen. ’ ’ 
 
 Lectures and discussions. M W F. 
 
 7. The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School. Mr. Hummel. 
 Lectures and class discussions on the organization of the high school 
 
 course in agriculture—the recent development of secondary education in 
 agriculture; the place of agriculture in the high school curriculum; the 
 problem of sequence in the agriculture course; selection of subject matter; 
 aims and methods of presentation; relation of general agriculture to the 
 special agriculture subjects; the problem of laboratory and field exer¬ 
 cises; the agricultural library; the agricultural teacher. 
 
 Students will be expected to secure Bricker’s ‘ ‘ The Teaching of 
 Agriculture in the High School.” Daily. 
 
 8. The High School Course in Horticulture. Mr. Bolster. 
 
 Lectures with demonstrations on the teaching of horticulture in the 
 
 high schools—aims of the course, organization and selection of material, 
 determination of sequence, relation to local industry, fundamental oper¬ 
 ations, laboratory, garden, and field work. Eeferences for outside reading 
 and reports. 
 
 Daily. 
 
 GRADUATE COURSE 
 
 9. Special Topics. The Staff. 
 
 The opportunity is offered for properly prepared students to pursue 
 
 the individual study of such topics as they may select subject to the 
 approval of one of the instructors. This would involve original study, 
 with a report satisfactory to the instructor concerned. This may be the 
 beginning of research work that might serve as a basis for the master’s 
 thesis. 
 
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 
 
 A SERIES IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE BULLETINS 
 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Entered July 1, 1911, at the Post Office at Berkeley, California, 
 as second-class matter, under the Act of Congress 
 of July 16, 1894. 
 
 Issued monthly from July to March, and twice a month from , 
 April to June. 
 
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 These Bulletins include'! 
 
 The Circular of Information, Colleges of Letters, Sciences and 
 Engineering. 
 
 The Annual Announcement of the Summer Session. 
 
 The Annual Announcements of the Colleges of Dentistry, Law, 
 Medicine, and Pharmacy. 
 
 The Secretary’s Annual Report. 
 
 The President’s Biennial Report.