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 114 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

FLORIDA JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY.

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS.

I. Introduction to the study of society. Small and Vincent's Introduction to the Study of Society forms the basis of instruction, and the course is designed to afford a synthetic view of social phenomena. It is a fitting introduction to the special social sciences.

II. Social elements lecture course. The attempt is to direct attention to the phenomena of human associations, to show how to interpret social and economic tendencies and movements, to stimulate interest in methods of social betterment approved by experience, and to disclose the principles of social progress.

III. The history of sociology. This consists of a general survey of sociological thought from Comte to the present time by means of lectures, and reports by the

students.

ROLLINS COLLEGE.

ECONOMICS AND LAW.

Course V. Sociology. An introductory course, dealing with the history of soci- ology as a science. Some of the subjects treated are anthropology, ethnology, the philosophy of social life, applied sociology, statistics, and present social problems. Second semester, three times a week. Required of all candidates for the degree.

GEORGIA ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.

W. E. BURGHART DUBOIS, PH.D.

Social reforms. Three terms of the senior year are given to sociology; the first term to a general study of principles, the second term to a general survey of social conditions, and a third term to a study of the social and economic condition of the American negro, and to methods of reform. Mayo-Smith's Statistics and Sociology is the text-book in use, and special library and thesis work is required.

In addition to this, graduate study of the social problems in the South by the most approved scientific methods is carried on by the Atlanta Conference, composed of graduates of Atlanta, Fisk, and other institutions. The aim is to make Atlanta University the center of an intelligent and thoroughgoing study of the negro problems. Five reports of the conference have been published, and a sixth is in preparation.

HAWAII- OAHU COLLEGE.

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS.

II. Principles of sociology; sociological problems. Sixty hours.

ILLINOIS ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY.

GROUP H. ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.

DR. LYON.

General history, civics, logic. Economics. Spring term. Course I. Economics. Fall term. General history, civics, logic. Sociology. Spring term. Course I, 3. Sociology. Fall term. Courses I, 3, 4. Sociology, seminary. Winter term.

it. SOCIOLOGY.

The purpose in sociology is to trace the evolution of society from its primitive forms to its present state of complexity, to note the reciprocal adjustment of life and