The Course Calendar provided information on registration, fees, scholarships, the general curriculum, examinations and advancements, courses, textbooks and academic regulations. Robert Lee from UVic Institutional Analysis has created bar graphs to illustrate calendar information about
enrollment levels, (1903-04 to 1962-63, Image size = 62KB), and
full-time tuition fees, (1921-22 to 1962-63, Image size = 59KB).
From the early years to about 1920, the curriculum was quite basic. All students would be required to complete two years of English, two years of a second language (Latin, Greek or French), and one year each of mathematics and physics. The four remaining elective courses had to be selected from a very short list: a maximum of three additional year-courses in Latin, Greek and French; Chemistry 1; Mathematics 2; Physics 2; and Philosophy 1. The discipline of history, strange to say, was subsumed under the rubric English 1. To read a transcription of the 1906-07 Calendar of Victoria High School and Victoria College, click here.
As Victoria College grew during the twenties, the curriculum became significantly expanded and enriched. New subject areas were swiftly added: history in 1921, economics in 1924, and biology in 1924. By 1930 there were formal programs for the first year of Applied Science and the first two years of Commerce.
Students entering second-year French with Mme. E. Sanderson-Mongin would have read in their 1929-30 calendar that they (like their predecessors) were expected to do summer reading. "The student must satisfy the instructor that he has read two of the following books: (1) Bernardin de St. Pierre, "Paul et Virginie" (2) Balzac, "Eugenie Grandet" (3) Saintine, "Picciola," or Vigny, "Poesies Choisies". The second-year student's course of study was to read "La Fontaine, "One Hundred Fables," Ginn.; Molière, "Les Femmes Savantes," Didier; Faguet - Ce que disent les livres; Cambridge. Conversation in French on the above. Written resumes. Composition from Kastner and Marks, "French Composition", Part 1. There will be oral tests."
In the 1948-49 Course Calendar, students in the degree course in the Department of Home Economics could choose to study the areas of Foods and Nutrition, and Textiles and Clothing. Home Management 100 dealt with "activities in the home; development of standards, techniques and skills, with emphasis on time and motion studies and use of variety of equipment." Food Management 201 devoted two lectures and three hours laboratory a week to "food buying, meal planning, and table service; food preparation, food legislation; brands, grades". Dress Design and Construction 200 examined "development of foundation patterns and flat pattern design; consumer problems in clothing".
When the 1961-62 calendar was published, students could study Psychology 403 Tests and Measurements, "a critical evaluation of intelligence, aptitude, achievement, attitude, interest and personality tests". Chemistry 417 examined "stable and radioactive isotopes. Nuclear reactions...Unstable elements. Elementary radioaction chemistry", and Writing 202 provided "Practice in imaginative writing...with reference also to radio and television forms."
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