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IV, V, VI. Industrial problems. Competition ; labor ; monopolies and trusts ; socialism ; taxation. Lectures.

VII. Elements of sociology. Lectures.

The work in this department is mainly economic, though an effort is made to present it from a sociological point of view.

Pedagogy. Social pedagogy. Professor Yoder.

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY OF WEST VIRGINIA.

SOCIOLOGY.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CLARK.

Students taking sociology as their major are required to have nine courses and a thesis in this subject. Their minor of six courses may be taken in economics or political science or history or philosophy.

1. Anthropology. An elementary course on man as the unit of society, and on the evolution of society and social institutions. The general purpose of the course is to point out how man has developed into his present social state, what the influences were which caused this development, and how these influences themselves have evolved. The general subjects discussed are : first, the antiquity of man, and the place man occupies in nature ; second, the origin and early development of institu- tions which have made man what he is, and upon which contemporary society is based, such as language and writing, the arts of life and of pleasure, religion and science, mythology and history, the family and social structure. Tylor's Anthropology, supple- mented by lectures and assigned readings.

2. Elements of sociology. A course on the structure and functions of contempo- rary society. Existing society is studied as an objective reality, the student's own world being his laboratory. The course begins with a series of elementary lectures on the methods of scientific social study ; the relation of the individual to society ; the social organism ; the physical and psychical bases of society ; the social forces ; the field of sociology and its relation to social reform. Meanwhile the individual members of the class have been assigned certain social institutions for personal observation and study, upon which they report fully in the class. The purpose is to bring out promi- nently the leading features in the associated life of human beings as it actually exists. Lectures, assigned readings, and reports.

3. A historical survey of sociological thought. This course traces the gradual development of sociological thought from antiquity through the Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and mediaeval writers down to our own times, the larger part of the course being devoted to the teachings of the most important modern sociologists. Lectures and assigned readings.

4. Contemporary charities. The causes and conditions of poverty, methods of relief, historical and contemporary ; special classes, children, the aged, unemployed, defective ; charity organization. Lectures, research work.

5. The treatment of delinquents. Causes of crime, criminal anthropology, history of methods of treatment, preventive measures, juvenile delinquents, legal factors. Lectures and assigned topics.

6. Social movements of the nineteenth century. A study of organized efforts for social betterment, their principles and results. This includes the investigation of movements affecting every phase of social life, hygienic, economic, artistic, educa- tional, religious. Lectures, readings, and the development of assigned topics.