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EC. 3a (VI). Elective for seniors in 1901-2. Sociology: The purpose and scope of the study. The nature of society. The races of men. The Lamarckian and Weismann theories of heredity. Social effects of charity and modern sanitation. Progress by selection and by imitation. History of institutions. Some notable indi- vidual theories of social evolution. Four written theses will be required.

WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY.

ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR FISHER.

V. The general labor problem. A course of lectures on the nature, causes, and justification of the present social discontent, and on such suggesied remedies as moral elevation, charity, education, provident institutions, labor organizations, strikes, conciliation and arbitration, labor legislation, improved wage systems, profit-sharing, co-operation, nationalization of the land, socialism, communism, anarchism.

Course V is elective for those who have taken Course I. Courses IV and V are given in alternate years, Course IV being omitted the present year.

VI. Sociology. A discussion of the fundamental principles of social organiza- tion, and the conditions and forms of social progress.

Course VI is elective for those who take, or have taken, Course I.

[VII. Social science. An examination of certain concrete social problems of the present : pauperism and charity; the defective and criminal classes. The class- room work is supplemented by visits to several of the charitable, penal, and reforma- tory institutions in and about Middletown. Twice a week.]

Course VII is elective for those who take, or have taken, Course I. Courses VI and VII are given in alternate years, Course VII being omitted the present year.

individual investigation, under the direction of the instructor, some problem in econom- ics, finance, statistics, or social science, and week by week reports in class on progress made and obstacles met. At the close of the year the work is brought together in a final report or thesis.
 * VIII. Economic seminary. Each member of the seminary takes for private

Course VIII is elective, with the permission of the instructor, for those who, hav- ing received first or second grade in Course I, take any three of the Courses III-V1I.

YALE UNIVERSITY.

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.

PROFESSOR SUMMER.

2. The self-perpetuation of society (sec. 2 of systematic societology). A historical and ethnological study of the evolution of the marriage institution; mores, taboo, idealization. The family; its forms, parenthood, kinship, status of woman. Compara- tive legislation on domestic relations. Population. The history, law, and policy of population. Seventy-two hours.

The mental reactions (sec. 4a of systematic societology). An ethnological study of the development of the mental processes and of the mental outfit of the human race in the earlier stages. Ghost-fear, daimonism, otherworldliness, knowledge and pseudo-knowledge, the aleatory element, world-philosophy, mores, codes, taboo, thera- peutics, etc. Seventy-two hours.

4. The beginnings of the industrial organization. An ethnological study of the industrial organization from its earliest beginnings. Division of labor between the