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LOUISIANA TULANE UNIVERSITY.
ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALDRICH.
GRADUATE COURSES.
3. Principles of sociology.
4. Comparative economic and social condition of workingmen. The labor ques- tion in Europe, Australia, and the United States.
5. Race problems. The Indian, the Chinaman, and the negro in the United States.
6. Economic and social history of the United States.
II. Research course. Competent students are encouraged to conduct investiga- tions, under the guidance of the instructor, in such subjects as the economic status of the negro, economic aspects of colonies, etc.
MAINE- BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. PROFESSOR CALLENDER.
2. Development of modern industry, and problems relating to labor and capital. Hobson's Evolution of Modern Capitalism. Lectures and assigned readings.
4. Economic and social history of the United States, from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present time, with particular reference to the history of commerce, manufactures, transportation, and agriculture, the currency and revenue systems, and the more important social and economic problems, such as slavery and immigration.
COLBY COLLEGE.
3. Sociology. The study of practical social problems, with special reference to the defective, dependent, and criminal classes, communism, socialism, immigration, factory system, the tenement, etc. Text-books, assigned readings, lectures, reports, training in research and book-reviewing. Professor Black.
BATES COLLEGE. ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
The methods of instruction are similar to those pursued in the more advanced work in history. Students are trained to scientific habits of thought upon economic, industrial, and social phenomena, and are encouraged to independent thinking.
3. Social science. A study of the principles of sociology, together with living social problems ; the family; immigration ; pauperism ; charities ; crime ; socialism.
MARYLAND JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS.
Economics. Labor problems. The group of movements having for their object the increase in the economic security of the laboring class. Each of the contingen- cies was considered in which workingmen are unable to earn wages, as disability, accident, premature invalidity, old age, and inability to secure work, and the efforts now being made in Europe and the United States for providing for them through insurance or otherwise. A few lectures were also given on the organization and practical work of statistical bureaus in various countries. Mr. W. F. Willoughby, of the United States Department of Labor.
