Course Catalog

For the approved Allied Subjects, the Committee on Education and Special Training (CEST) created Special Descriptive Circulars for Accounting, Chemistry, Economics, English, French, Geology and Geography, German, History, Hygiene and Sanitation, Physics, Psychology, Surveying, Topography and Map-Making, and the War Issues Course.1 A selection of these Special Descriptive Circulars as well as Special Bulletins are presented below. All of these courses were offered at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI). These circulars were intended to serve as guidelines for colleges and universities on how to teach the course and schools were allowed to adapt the courses for the resources available.

Special Bulletins:

Engineering

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Biology

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Special Descriptive Circulars:

German

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Hygiene and Sanitation

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War Issues Course

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Catalog of Maps for War Issues Course

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Notes:

  1. Memo from the Committee on Education and Special Training to Colleges having units (Collegiate Sections) of the Student Army Training Corps dated September 18, 1918, 12, Box 3, Folder 8, Records of the Dean of the College, Theodorick Pryor Campbell, RG 11/1, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
  2. Special Bulletin on Programs in Engineering, Box 3, Folder 8, Records of the Dean of the College, Theodorick Pryor Campbell, RG 11/1, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
  3. Special Bulletin on Biology, Box 5, Folder 385, Records of the Office of the President Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, RG 2/07, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
  4. Special Descriptive Circular German, Box 3, Folder 8, Records of the Dean of the College, Theodorick Pryor Campbell, RG 11/1, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
  5. Special Descriptive Circular Hygiene and Sanitation, Box 5, Folder 385, Records of the Office of the President Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, RG 2/07, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
  6. Dispatch about War Issues Course, Box 3, Folder 8, Records of the Dean of the College, Theodorick Pryor Campbell, RG 11/1, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
  7. Catalog of Maps for War Issues Course, Box 3, Folder 8, Records of the Dean of the College, Theodorick Pryor Campbell, RG 11/1, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.