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Rh I. Kidd, Social Evolution; Lecky, History of European Morals; Warner, American Charities.

II. Wright, Practical Sociology; Hoffmann, American Negro; Wine, Punishment and Reformation.

The problems of social morality, charities, criminology, good citizenship, socialism, etc.

Outlines of sociology. One semester, three hours. Lectures, reading, discussion. The course aims to present a brief outline of sociological thought; a discussion of the elements of association underlying social relations and institutions; the results of race, group, and individual competition ; the conditions of progress; some of the chief problems of sociology population, degeneration, pauperism, dependent classes, crime, immigration, divorce, great cities, education. Elective, senior year.

Ethical seminary, one hour, (a) Modern social and sociological problems.

Seminary in social ethics. The labor question, temperance, pauperism, and other social problems considered from the ethical standpoint. Second half-year, one hour.

B. Charities and crime. The theory and history of charity and reformatory work. Students are encouraged to study the charitable and correctional institutions in the vicinity of their own homes. If possible, additional lectures by men who have devoted special attention to some phase of these subjects. (Warner, American Charities.)

D. Socialism.

E. Economic colonial policy.

B. Psychology in relation to sociology, ethics, and the sciences. This course treats instinct, impulse, pain and pleasure, and the social mind as factors in social and ethical development; also the biological foundation of psychology. Thirty-six hours.

(1900) Church polity and sociology. Forty-eight hours.

CONNECTICUT— TRINITY COLLEGE.

EC. 3 (VI). Elective for seniors in 1900-1901. Practical economic and social problems: immigration; legislative treatment of certain moral problems; relation between labor and capital; control of natural and capitalistic monopolies; crime and pauperism; discussion of criticisms of the present economic and social order. The work will be based upon Wright's Outline of Practical Sociology, but will include much supplementary reading. Reports upon reading and two written theses will be required. [{nop}}