Candidates for the A.B. degree of Columbia University may specialize for the last year in the department of pedagogy. They are required to take two subjects, one as major or principal subject, one as minor subject. A third optional subject may be taken.
To gain a Diploma of the Teachers’ College, a two years’ course of study is required. This includes:
i. Elements of Psychology—“a course to give skill in description and explanation of mental phenomena and insight into the observing and training of children.”
ii. Educational Theories since the Renaissance, with a general survey of earlier theories.
iii. A course in Psychology, History of Education, or in Principles of Logic and Psychology as applied to Science and Manual Training.
iv. Study of range of child’s mental activities as the basis of primary instruction: the vocabulary as a basis of language teaching; the child’s power and skill of hand as the basis of manual expression; Methods of Teaching: Observation lessons; Language, including Reading; Number; Manual Exercises.
v. Principles of Teaching, with special reference to application of Psychology to the cultivation of intellectual powers, the feeling, the will. The application of the principles of education to classification, organization, and school discipline.
vi. Observation and practice teaching, under supervision, and independently.
vii. Physical training.
viii. Special methods of one subject of study.