subjects as may be assigned. All graduates and such undergraduates as can present sufficient attainments are eligible, at the option of the professor in charge. One year's satisfactory work in the seminarium entitles undergraduates to three courses' credit on graduation.

HANOVER COLLEGE.

1. Sociology. Three months.

2. Questions of the day. One year, four hours.

BUTLER COLLEGE.

The department enjoys the advantage of having access to the large collection of public documents in the state library, and the very complete collections of works pertaining to the social sciences in the libraries of the state, the city, and Butler College.

The courses in sociology, economics, and political science are so arranged that the student may elect work in these branches aggregating five years of study. Work in this department should not ordinarily be begun before the junior year; but students having mature minds and desiring to elect junior and senior work largely from this department may enter the introductory classes in the sophomore year.

COURSES IN ECONOMICS.

PROFESSOR FORREST.

4. Problems of capital and labor: A study of the growth of large industries, and the place and nature of public service and industrial corporations, "trusts," and labor organizations. Consideration will be given to the causes of conflicts between capital and labor, the relations of both to the consuming public, questions of taxation, and methods of public control.

COURSES IN SOCIOLOGY.

3. Philanthropy: A study of the causes of poverty and methods of amelioration. The department enjoys the hearty co-operation of the excellent Charity Organization Society of Indianapolis, and is thereby enabled to make a thorough study of the charities of the city. Such agencies as the social settlement, the institutional church, the labor colony, etc., will also receive consideration. The student will be expected to make a personal investigation of actual conditions found in the city.

5. Anthropology: A study embracing both anthropology, in the narrower sense, and culture-history, intended to give a general understanding of the beginnings and earlier stages of social evolution. Such an examination of the method of social development serves as a basis for advanced historical, sociological, and ethical investigation, and for the study of comparative religion.

6. Social history: A study of the development of the main elements of modern civilization. The emphasis is laid on the interrelation of the industrial and ethical lines of development. An investigation is made of the beginnings of civilization in antiquity, the transition from the Græco-Roman empire to the medieval period, and the leading movements of the modern period. This course employs in the study of civilized peoples the same method that is used in the preceding course in the study of peoples of lower culture.

7. Socialism: A brief historical sketch of modern socialistic theories, followed by a critical examination of present-day socialistic positions. The economic bearings of socialism receive first consideration, but its influence on the family, the state, and religious and ethical ideals is the main subject of the course.

8. General sociology: This course attempts to reach a general view of social phenomena. It is based on the results obtained by the course in anthropology and those of some of the recent writers on social psychology.

9. Development of social philosophy: An examination of the principal attempts to interpret social phenomena, from Plato to Comte. Lectures, readings, reports.

10. Contemporary social philosophy: An examination of the principal sociological contributions since Auguste Comte, with special emphasis upon the work of living writers. This course is intended to be an introduction to general sociology, since it takes up most of the important attempts to interpret society.

20. Social forces in English Romanticism: This course deals with the English Romantic movement from a social and literary point of view. The former phase of the work is considered in lectures on the different social and political forces in the literature at that time; the latter side of the work consists chiefly of a study more or less minute of the prominent authors of the Romantic movement. In collaboration with Professor W. D. Howe.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME.

COURSES IN PHILOSOPHY.

(b) Social duties. The domestic society and marriage; monogamy; polygamy and divorce; relations between parents and children. Education: the part of the parents, the church, and the state. On slavery in ancient and modern times; duties of masters and servants. On capital and labor.

(c) Sociology. Necessity of a public society; the city. Origin of the civil and political organization; theories of Hobbes and J. J. Rousseau; source of authority in human society. On the divine right of kings; the absolute sovereignty of the people; the reasonable system. The different forms of government; the primitive polity; the best form of government; opinions of O. A. Brownson. On modern democracy; the position of the church; the usurpation and transfer of the supreme power; on the government de facto. On despotism; is it lawful to resist a tyrant? Theory of St. Thomas and Machiavelli on government. The distinction of the three social powers; parliamentary and representative government. Qualities of a good ruler; the question of the poor. Public liberties; freedom of the press and of conscience; the right of the sword; on war and treaties. The international law. Civilization. Church and state.

VIII. The elements of sociology. Lectures, readings, and examinations on required texts. Two hours a week for five months.

(Mental science 9.) Charities and correction. This is a course in sociology applied to the pauper and criminal classes. (Not given after 1902-3.)

HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

I. Political and social sciences.

III. Sociology, three hours. Senior year.

(Social economics treated in political economy.)

I. Social science.

DES MOINES COLLEGE.

ELECTIVES.

An introductory course reviewing the general facts of society. A discussion of social forces and remedies. Text, Giddings's Elements of Sociology, with references to the works of Spencer, Ward, and Small.

DRAKE UNIVERSITY.

SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PROFESSOR SHEPPERD.

1. Sociology. During the fall term the general subject of sociology is sketched in broad outlines. The method of study is illustrated by direct investigation of interesting problems, each student being assigned a special topic and asked to present before the class a written report, embodying methods and results obtained. After the first month the class will have one meeting per week additional in order to hear reports.

PARSONS COLLEGE.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.

23. Sociology. An elementary course in which significant social phenomena and the problems involved are recognized and appreciated. An attempt is made to seek the principles upon which social well-being and progress depend, and the best means of applying them in order to secure the healthiest condition of the social organism. Special study is made of labor organizations, monopolies, pauperism, ignorance, crime, disease, the liquor traffic, and temperance reform. Lectures, discussions, and readings. IOWA COLLEGE.

APPLIED CHRISTIANITY.
PROFESSOR WYCKOFF.

The courses at present given in this department are sociological in character. Special attention is given, however, to those institutions and processes with which Christianity is to be chiefly credited. The ultimate aim of the work is practical in character, namely, education for good citizenship. No attempt is made to develop a science of society from the teachings of Christ, but it is hoped that good results may come from the effort to appreciate the spirit of Christ on the one hand, and on the other, modern society and its needs.

1. American social life. This course is intended as an introduction to the study of society. It is believed that the necessary training in statistics and other methods of descriptive sociology can be best given in connection with concrete investigations. So each student is expected to make a special study of the social life of a family, a community, and a city, and embody the results in carefully prepared papers. The same method is then extended to the study of Iowa and the United States, use being made of the census and other statistics—of newspapers, novels, books of history or travel, describing or illustrating the life of different sections of the country. Attention is given to the influences upon society of physical conditions, race characteristics, scarcity or density of population, and voluntary socializing movements.

2. Industrial history and problems of labor. Beginnings of industry; Greece; Rome; medieval Europe; English labor history; the guild system; industrial revolutions; modern factory system; American industrial history; trade-unions; factory legislation; co-operation; profit-sharing; communistic and socialistic ideals and experiments; the capitalist system.

3. Charities and penology. Early Christian charity; medieval church charity; English poor-law development; modern institutions and methods; philanthropy. The criminal; causes of crime; classical theories; influence of school of criminal anthropology; treatment of crime; extermination, retaliation, seclusion, reformation. Development 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. Cady.

1. General sociology, Part I. Social structure and growth. A study of the primary factors and forces of social phenomena, with introductory lectures on anthropology 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. (1) 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

fessor Patterson.

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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 foundations; 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.

8. Introduction to political philosophy. Lectures on the development of political philosophy and the elements of legal history. The class will read Plato's Republic and Laws, Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli's Prince, Hobbes's Leviathan, and other selections. Professor Loos.

9. The distribution of wealth. A study of modern theories of distribution, with an account of the fundamental social institutions that are regulative in the distribution of income. Professor Loos.

10. Socialism and contemporary social legislation. A critical examination of contemporary socialism and current tendencies in legislation, 1860-1900. Professor Loos.

11-12. Political philosophy. Studies in political and social philosophy, with special reference to modern conditions and problems. The class will read Spencer's Man vs. the State, Huxley's Administrative Nihilism, Ritchie's Principles of State Interference, selections from the writings of Thomas Hill Green and other modern philosophers, and Schmoller's Einige Grundfragen der Socialpolitik. Professor Loos.

: 13-14. Graduate seminary in sociology. Designed to assist graduate students in specific lines of research. Professor Loos.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PROFESSOR LOos, ASSISTANT Professor PattERSON, MR. THOMAS.

2. Recent economic history. A study of recent economic history with detailed analysis of the industrial revolution in its economic and social aspects. Special attention will be given to the development of the individualistic philosophy and its reaction on practical politics and legislation-the factory acts, trade-unionism, and the trust problem. Open to all students except freshmen. Professor Loos.

3. Debating course. Selected topics in economics, politics, and sociology. Open only to students who have taken at least one course in one of these subjects. Students may schedule for this course at the beginning of each semester. Professors Loos and Wilcox, Assistant Professor Patterson.

CORNELL COLLEGE.

POLITICAL ECONOMY, SOCIOLOGY, TEACHING.

I. Sociology. The aim of the work will be to give a knowledge of the character and content of the science. Its principles and history will be discussed and some lectures will be given, and reports and book reviews will be required. Giddings's Elements of Sociology will be used as a text, other authors will be examined, and, in order to give the student some idea of the practical side of sociology, Warner's American Charities will be read.

TABOR COLLEGE.

Sociology. This course will embrace the study of social problems, with special reference to the defective, dependent, and criminal classes. Communism, socialism, immigration, the factory system, and the tenement will be subjects for careful investigation. Students will be trained in research and in the review of books and special magazine articles. Wright's Practical Sociology will serve as the basis for class work. In the second term there will be a careful study of the criminal. Drahm's The Criminal is the text. Professor Farnham.