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 STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STA TES 557

THE COURSE IN PRACTICAL SOCIOLOGY.

Junior. Charities and crimes, field work, elements of sociology, history of edu- cation, municipal government, physiology, psychology, ethics, moral education.

Senior. Social ethics, social statistics, psychology and sociology, modern social thought, field work in charities, charity organization, communicable diseases, biology of water supplies, American history.

Graduate. Seminary in sociology, advanced ethics, anthropology, abnormal psychology alternating with comparative psychology, distribution of wealth, history of political thought, social and economic legislation, economic and social history, labora- tory work in statistics.

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING.

SOCIAL SCIENCE. PROFESSOR MERZ.

The aim of the department is to familiarize .students with the history of social development, and to encourage investigation of the principles on which social progress depends. After a thorough grounding in the fundamental facts the student is expected to observe the social phenomena about him and to study the various problems in an independent manner. Inasmuch as sociology is a study of recent birth, and its theories are constantly expanding, much of the class work will consist of lectures and theses.

1. Principles of sociology. Small and Vincent, Giddings's Elements, Kidd's Social Evolution. Recitations, readings, debates, and theses.

2. Social problems. Study of crime, punishment, and reform ; poverty and charities; the labor movement wages, strikes, co-operation, trusts, socialism. Lectures, readings, discussions, and theses.

Social philosophy. Lectures on social theory, old and new, and on the aims of society. Discussions and theses.

[ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS.

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. PROFESSOR MILLIS.

9. Principles of sociology. This course considers the elements and conditions of social growth and progress. Recitations, lectures, and readings of assigned chap- ters from Spencer's Principles of Sociology and Giddings's Principles of Sociology. Text-book : Fairbanks's Introduction to Sociology.

10. Problems of social growth. Trade-unionism, arbitration, and conciliation ; communism, co-operation, and profit-sharing. Lectures and reports. For reference : Ely, The Labor Movement in America, and Ely, French and German Socialism.

Courses in genetic sociology, and in charities and correction, will probably be offered later.

CALIFORNIA

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY.

ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.

Courses 6 and 8 are withdrawn and the following courses added : 7. Socialistic theories. History of the socialistic doctrine and agitation, and of socialistic experiments ; criticism of the doctrine, especially in the light of received