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3. Charities and penology. Early Christian charity; mediaeval church charity; English poor-law development ; modern institutions and methods ; philanthropy. The criminal; causes of crime ; classical theories ; influence of school of criminal anthro- pology; treatment of crime ; extermination, retaliation, seclusion, reformation. Devel- opment of institutions and methods.

4. Evolution of society. The horde, clan, family, tribe, and nation ; primitive methods of control ; modifications of the family; development of social organs ; rise of modern social institutions and processes of modification ; structure of modern society.

5. Sociology and social reform. Half the term is spent on a study of the more important contributions to social philosophy made by Hobbes, Vico, Montesquieu, Comte, Spencer, Tarde, and the principal American sociologists. The work of the leaders in the great reform movements of England and America during the last century is then taken up. The nature of the appeal and the methods employed are the chief objects of attention.

6. The city. City state of Greece and Rome; feudalism; rise of cities in Italy and Germany; the guild government ; the modern industrial city; municipal functions in Europe ; the sphere of the municipality; city government and administration ; recent progress in America.

SIMPSON COLLEGE. ECONOMICS.

2. Applications of economic theory to social and civic problems.

3. Field work in the study of social problems.

STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.

SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

PROFESSOR Loos, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PATTERSON, MR. CADV.

1. General sociology, Part I. Social structure and growth. A study of the primary factors and forces of social phenomena, with introductory lectures on anthro- pology and ethnology, followed by a systematic examination of the genesis of social institutions, gentile and civic. The course closes with a brief review of social theory from Plato to Spencer. Professor Loos.

2. General sociology, Part II. Social amelioration, (i) The general theory of social amelioration : police, sanitation, charities, correction, public utilities, and education. (2) Municipal administration, dealing with the social and economic problems of modern cities. Professor Loos.

3. Theory and technique of statistics see political economy 13. Assistant Pro- fessor Patterson.

4. Social statistics. Population in its social aspects, with special reference to modern cities, tenement-house conditions, education, crime, and income. Assistant Professor Patterson.

5. Domestic institutions. The origins of marriage and the family; evolutionary, progress of types; forces leading to the survival of the monogamic type; economic and utilitarian bases of domestic ethics ; present industrial dangers to domestic foun- dations ; the problem of divorce. Mr. Cady.

6. Charities and correction. Criminology and penology; pauperism and methods of relief institutional care of dependents and defectives; philanthropic financiering social settlements. Mr. Cady.