1898-1899. Southern Branch of the State Normal School of the University of Utah. Cedar City

              15 				STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 
 
   ALGEBRA.-This course includes a thorough treatment of the fundamental operations; use of brackets; simple equations, factoring; highest common factor; lowest common multiple; simple and complex fractions; involution and evolution; the theory of indices, with applications, surds (radicals ), simple and compound, imaginary quantities; quadratic equations; equations in quadratic form; simultaneous quadratic equations; theory of quadratic equations; indeterminate equations of the first degree; inequalities; ratio, proportion, and variation; arithmetical, geometrical, harmonical progressions. 
Hall and Knight's Elementary Algebra is the text-book used.  
(a) Required of first-year Normal students. 
2 hours per week, first half-year; 3 hours per week, second half-year. 
(b) Required of second-year Normal students.  
2 hours per week throughout the year. 
 
    PLANE GEOMETRY.-This course includes the general properties of regular polygons, their construction, perimeters, and areas; regular polygons and circles, with problems of construction; maxima and minima, and methods for determining the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. The first five books of Wentworth's New Plane and Solid Geometry. 
 Required of all second-year Normal students.  
 2 hours per week throughout the year. 
   ENGLISH.-(a) This course consists of a thorough study of the more advanced principles of English Grammar. It also includes elementary instruction in literature with abundant practice in simple composition. 
Required of all first-year Normal students.  
4 hours per week throughout the year. 
   (b) This course consists of instruction in the elementary principles of rhetoric together with much practice in composition. Many simple pieces of literature class are also studied. 
Required of all second-year Normal students. 
3 hours per week throughout the year. 
   (c) The work of this course is essentially the same as that of course (b) but is of much higher grade. Among the pieces studied are the more difficult ones prescribed for entrance to the Freshman class. 
Required of all third-year Normal students.  
2 hours per week throughout the year.