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Title: State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.) Undergraduate Catalog
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)
Subjects: State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.) – Curricula - Catalogs State Teachers College (Farmville, Va.) - Curricula - Catalogs Longwood College - Curricula - Catalogs Longwood University - Curricula - Catalogs
Publisher: State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.
Contributing Library: Longwood University
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in their present development and are rapidlytraced back through American and English History to the polit-ical institutions of the Saxons. The local governments of Virginiaare carefully studied in detail, both for their own sake and astypes. The state governments are followed from the earliesttimes down to the present, Virginia being again taken as a type.The history of the formation of the Federal government isreviewed, and its present workings considered. Political partiesand their methods are explained and discussed. The work ofthe term concludes with a brief consideration of the methods ofteaching civil government in the grades. Text Books: Civil Government in the United States, Fiske;Civil Government of Virginia, Smithey. senior year,(Professional Course II.)Same as Senior Year, Professional Course I. The work of the first two years of the Academic Course iscondensed into the first year of the Elementary Course. MyersGeneral History is used as a text. In the fall term of the Ele-
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History and Social Sciences 49 mentary Professional year, American history is rapidly reviewed,using Fiskes History of the United States as a text, and in thespring term the main topics covered in the work of the SeniorYear in civil government are presented in more elementary form,with Strong and Schafers Government of the American Peopleas text. 5<d Departments of Instruction DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND NATURESTUDY. DR. MILLIDGE. Geography: This is one of the great culture studies of theCommon Schools. Its special task is to carry the pupil out of thenarrow bounds of his home, to dignify his life by making it partof the great life of mankind. Beginning with observation of theknown, it cultivates the imagination by transferring the knowl-edge thus gained to the comprehension of the unknown. Themoral effect upon the pupil in this coming into harmony with theworld in which he lives is not less valuable than the training of thefaculties of observation, comparison, and judgment which t

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