1904-1905. Southern Branch of the State Normal School of the University of Utah. Cedar City

              25 				STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 
	 
NATURAL SCIENCE 
 
MR. DECKER. 
 
    Zoology. This is a thoroughly practical course designed to prepare the student for efficient work as a teacher of science in the district schools. Through laboratory work, dissecting, microscopic examinations, and drawing, the student is made familiar with the lower forms of animal life, and obtains an insight into their relation to the higher forms by a comparative study. The influence of environment is discussed at some length. 
    In classification, types of the main branches and classes of the animal kingdom are exhibited in the laboratory. 
Three hours per week first half-year. 
Text-book, Jordan and Kellog's Animal Life 
 
    Botany. The method persued in the study of Botany will be similar to that outlined for Zoology. 
    Slides for microscopic examination will be prepared by each student. The morphological changes will be carefully noted. Methods of cultivating the common plants and sterilizing the fungi destructive of domestic plants will receive consideration. 
Three hours per week, second half-year. 
 
    Physiology. In addition to a text-book treatment of the subject, the simpler process of digestion, circulation, and treatment of diseased tissues are studied in the laboratory. Examination of the various tissues of the body under the compound microscrope, acquaint the student with the histology of the body. Some pathological conditions are investigated and sources of disease located. 
Two hours per week throughout the year. 
 
    Physical Geography. The course treats of the more important facts regarding the form, material, and processes of the earth and the relations which they bear to life in its varied phases. 
Two hours per week throughout the year.