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societies. Mutilation, artificial deformation, stimulants, ornament, dress, tattooing, the dance, music, poetry, painting, sculpture, technology, ceremonial, humor, and play among the natural races. The relation of art to work. Art and gaming in Chicago. From the standpoint of origins. For graduate students. Major. Associate Professor Thomas.

26. Social origins. Association and culture in early times and in tribal life. Early food conditions, migrations, and race-crossings. Origins and relations of invention, trade, warfare, art, marriage, class distinctions, the professions, legal, political, and ecclesiastical institutions. Ethnological reading. An introductory. For Senior College and graduate students. Major. Associate Professor Thomas.

27. Development of mind in the race. Formation of habit in the tribal stage. Relation of the psychic life of the group to the group activities. Instruction and dis- cipline of children by the parents and by the group. Educational meaning of initi- ation, secret societies, and tapu. Animistic beliefs and practices, and the influence of analogy, suggestion, and hypnotism in the formation of mind. Language and number. Imitation, invention, and genius. Comparison of the mental traits of different races, epochs, and social classes, and an estimate of the nature of the psychic interval between the natural and the culture races. For graduate students. Major. Asso- ciate Professor Thomas.

28. Sex in social organization. The influence of the fact of sex in the develop- ment of forms of association and of social activity and structure. Based principally on data from the natural races, and from the population of the city of Chicago, with a preliminary consideration of sex in the lower life-forms. For graduate students. Major. Associate Professor Thomas.

30. Primitive social control. A study of primitive juridical and political systems and of social conventions. Family, clan, tribal, and military organization, totemism, tribal and property marks, tapu, personal property and property in land, periodical tribal assemblies and ceremonies, secret societies, medicine men and priests, caste, blood vengeance, salutations, gifts, tribute, oaths, and forms of offense and punish- ment, among typical tribes of Australia and Oceanica, Africa, Asia, and America. Major. Associate Professor Thomas.

31. Race development of mind. Research course. Major. Associate Professor Thomas.

51. Contemporary society in the United States. A concrete study of natural con- ditions, the population and its distribution, institutions, economics, political, educa- tional, and ecclesiastical, together with an examination of conventional ideas as to national characteristics. The course is designed to afford a general survey, and to correlate geography with social and economic history and political science. Major. Associate Professor Vincent.

52. American cities. A study of the location, growth, population groupings, arrange- ments, architecture, and typical institutions of American cities. The aim of the course is to put the problems of the modern city into their proper relations, to exhibit urban life as a whole. Visits to certain city institutions constitute a part of the course. Major. Associate Professor Vincent.

53. The family. The development of the domestic institutions in lower and higher civilizations ; social ethics of the family ; legal, industrial, educational, and religious problems of the family. Major. Professor Henderson.

56. The group of industrials. The labor movement from the viewpoint of sociology.