tion) is read and discussed in the class. All students are requested to read, on or before entering the Class, Muirhead's "Elements of Ethics" (3rd ed.). During Terms 1 and 2 the class will meet four days a week. During Term 3 the class will meet three days a week. ADVANCED CLASS. The class will meet four days a week during the three terms. The subject will be Political Science and Sociology. [See Synopsis below.] HONOURS CLASS. During Terms 1 and 2 the class meets three days a week. The lectures will be upon the history of Moral Philosophy, with special reference to the books prescribed for the Honours Examination. During Term 3 the class will meet five days a fortnight. The subject will be announced at the commencement of the term. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY. Lecturer-1911-1915 ROBERT MORRISON MCIVER, M.A. This class will meet at least three hours a week during the three terms. (a) Political Science (Winter and Spring Terms). The nature of the State. 1. Basis. Political Sovereignty, its nature, source, and limits. 2. Fundamental Principles. The meaning of politi cal law, liberty, right, and obligation. The relation of the State to other associations. The place of force in the State. 3. Forms. Classification of the forms of the State. Unitary and composite States. Account of the chief institutions of democracy. Checks on popular government and their importance. 4. Inter-state relations. The meaning of State-limits. The principles of locality race, and nationality. The growth of international society, and its effects on States. (b) Sociology (Summer Term). A study of the fundamental sociological principle, that socialisation and individualisation are two aspects of the same process. Illustrations of the working of this principle in the history of communities and in the differentiation of associations within community. The respective spheres of competition and co-operation, individualism and socialism. The law of the division of labour. The meaning of progress and decadence. The interrelation of social ends and institutions; ethics as the ultimate expression of social unity. Fee £4 4s. POLITICAL ECONOMY. Lecturers-1904 Stanley H. Turner, M.A., D.Litt. Ordinary Class. This class meets one hour daily for four days in the week during the first and second terms, and three days in the week during the third term. The course of lectures includes : 1. The Scope and Methods of Economic Inquiry. 2. The Agents of Production. Land, Labour and Capital. 3. Business Organisation. Competition, Co-operation, Trusts and Monopolies. 4. The Theory of Value. Markets, Supply and Demand. 5. The Distribution of Income. Wages, Interest, Rent, Earnings of Management, Trade Unionism. 6. Money and Monetary Problems. Banking, Credit and Financial Crises. 7. International Trade. The Balance of Trade; The Foreign Exchanges; Free Trade and Protection; Retaliation; Preferential Tariffs. Books recommended: Marshall, " Principles of Economics," vol. i., or "Economics of Industry"; Smart, "Distribution of Income"; Chapman, "Outlines of Political Economy"; Bastable, "Theory of International Trade ". Fee £4 4s. Advanced Class. The class meets at least five days a fortnight during the first two terms of the academic year in conjunction with the Honours Class. During 1915-1916 the subjects will be the Distribution of Wealth, with special reference to the subjects treated of in "Wealth and Welfare," by A. C. Pigou, and the History of British Industry and Commerce from 1760 to 1900. Fee £4 4s. Honours Class. The class meets at least five days a fortnight. The lectures are arranged to cover the work of two sessions; candidates for honours in Economic Science are therefore advised, wherever possible, to allow for attendance in two consecutive years. The subjects include those of the Advanced Class and are chosen from the following: 1. Advanced Economic Theory. 2. Public Finance. 3. History of British Industry and Commerce. 4. History of Economic Theory. 5. Labour Problems. Fee £4 4s. Class of Agricultural Economics. See under "Agriculture," p. 111. COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY (ANDERSON LECTURESHIP). Established in 1896 under Bequest by the late Rev. William Anderson, LL.D. (Edin. 1855) Principal of Agra College, India. Lecturers-1896 G. F. Stout, M.A., LL.D. 1899 JAMES LEWIS MCINTYRE, M.A., D.Sc. Ordinary Class. The class meets at least three hours weekly during the session. The course consists of Lectures and Laboratory Work on the following subjects :— 1. Application of Experimental Methods to Psychology. 2. Sensation and Perception; Measurement of Sensibility; Origin and Formation of Perceptions of Space, Time, Movement. 3. Attention and Apperception; Span of Consciousness, Reaction-time, etc. 4. Memory and Association of Ideas. Imagery and its Types; Conditions of Learning, Retention, and Recall. 5. Feeling and Will; Experimental Study of their Conditions and Expression. 6. Mental Evolution and Development. " Books Recommended: 1. Myers, "Text-book of Experimental Psy- Fee £4 4s. Honours Class. This class meets at least five days a fortnight, qualifying for graduation with Honours in Mental Philosophy. The course deals more fully and intensively with some of the subjects of the Ordinary Class. Special attention is given to (1) the place and function of mind in evolution; (2) mental development in the child; (3) the origin and general conditions of language and belief; (4) mental degeneration. Fee £4 4s. EDUCATION. Lecturers-1893 Joseph Ogilvie, LL.D. I. The work of the ordinary class will consist of a full course qualifying for graduation in Arts. The class will meet three days per week for lectures during the entire session, and on additional days for tutorial work, which will be compulsory during the first and second terms. The general distribution of the subjects treated will be as follows: First Term: Education as a science; its scope, and its relation to the basal sciences of Physiology, Psychology, Logic and Ethics. Mental development as the basis of educative processes. Educational ends and aims. The Theory of Physical and Intellectual Education. Second Term: Moral Education: theories of its purpose, instruments and methods. Cultivation of the Emotions; Training of the Will. Discipline: Punishment, Reward. The School as a Moral Institution. History will be treated concurrently as illustrative of different educational theories, ancient and modern. It will form a more independent portion of the work of the class during the third term and will deal specially with Education since the Renascence and with the History of Education in Scotland. Other topics treated during the Session, so far as time admits, will be: The Curriculum: Principles of Selection of the Material of Instruction in various Grades of School; Fatigue; Attention; Relation of Educational Theory to Educational Practice, etc. The Course will embrace, besides lectures and tutorial work, essays and other class exercises, and examinations, oral and written. II. An Honours Course is being arranged to moet the requirements for a Degree with Honours in Education. Particulars will be intimated as soon as the Degree has been established. 66 The books chiefly referred to in the lectures are: Locke's "Thoughts"; Rousseau's "Emile"; Spencer's "Education"; Quick's "Educational Reformers"; Painter's and Compayre's "Histories"; Clarke's "Short Studies in Education in Scotland"; Davidson's "Aristotle" and "History"; Laurie's Primary Instruction" and "Institutes of Education"; Bain's "Education as a Science"; Bowen's "Froebel" (Great Educators); Welton's "Principles and Methods of Teaching"; Welton and Blandford's "Moral Training through School Discipline "; Sadler's "Moral Instruction and Training in Schools"; "Adams' "The Evolution of Educational Theory". HISTORY. (BURNETT FLETCHER CHAIR.) Founded 1903. Patrons-The University Court. Professor 1903-CHARLES SANFORD TERRY, M.A.* A Course of Lectures, qualifying for ordinary graduation will be delivered by the Professor in the Session of 1915-1916. The sub. ject of the course will be General Modern History to 1453, with reference to the History of Great Britain. The Class will meet on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, throughout the Session at 11 A.M. for lectures. Tutorial revision on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the same hour. Monthly Examinations during the Session. For elementary study the following may be used as textbooks: For English History, either Bright's, or Gardiner's, or Green's, or Powell and Tout's, or Oman's "Histories". For Scottish History, Hume Brown's "History of Scotland". For European History, the Professor's "Short History of Europe" (Medieval) (Routledge). Students are required to provide themselves with Ramsay Muir's "Historical Atlas " (Philip). A Course of Lectures for Advanced candidates upon European History, 1715-1789, will be delivered by the Lecturer in Modern History throughout the Session on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 11 A.M. Text-books: the Professor's "Short History of Europe " (Modern) and Hassall's "Balance of Power" (Rivington). A Course of Lectures upon European History, 1815-1871, qualifying for graduation with Honours in History, will be delivered by the Professor throughout the Session on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. As text-books, one or more of the following may be used, Jane's From Metternich to Bismarck (Clarendon Press); Hawkesworth's Last Century in Europe, 1814-1914 (Arnold); Holland Rose's Century of Continental History, 1780-1880 (Stanford); Alison Phillips's Modern Europe, 1815-1899 (Rivington). The books prescribed are Cavour (Cesaresco); Bismarck (Headlam); Bonapartism (H. A. L. Fisher); Bolton King's Mazzini, and relative chapters of Lavisse et Rambaud's Histoire Générale or The Cambridge Modern History. Candidates for the Indian Civil Service Examination attending the Honours Class will be required to acquaint themselves further with "Memoirs of Metternich (Bentley), Bianchi's "Comte Camille de Cavour" (Turin), and Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman" (Smith, Elder), up to 1878. * Lecturer in History, 1898 to 1903. |