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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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150 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES Spring term, three-fifths study. dence, etc., are carefully discussed. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 3 or 3a. (Not given in 1897-98 ) 5. RAILROAD PROBLEMS.—This is a short course designed to familiarize the student with the problems of railway management in their economic, social, and legal aspects. Comparison is made of the development of railroad transportation and its regulation in Europe and the United States. Rates, financial methods of construction, competition, pooling, etc., are discussed, as is also the question of state ownership and management. Spring term, full study, three times a week. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 1. The course is open, without the requirement in Economics, to students in the College of Engineering who have taken Civil Engineering 4 6. SOCIOLOGY.—In this course it is intended to study society in its normal structure. The theories of the nature of society, which have been advanced by various writers, are discussed in thelight of the history of social institutions, and an effort is made to formulate some of the laws of social growth. Fall and zvinter terms, tzuo-fifths study. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 1 or some course in history or philosophy. 7. SOCIAL PATHOLOGY.—This is a course in " applied sociology," consisting of as detailed a study of the problems of pauperism and crime as the time will permit, together with a consideration of theories and methods of reform. Sfring term, tzuo-fifths study. Professor KINLEY. 8. ECONOMIC SEMINARY.—Advanced students will be formed into a seminary for investigation and for the study of current economic literature. Students who write their theses in economics must do so in connection with the seminary work. The course counts for two credits, but no credit will be given unless the whole course is taken. Fall, zvinter, and spring terms, tzuo hours once each Tveek. Professor KINLEY. 9. ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE. — This is a course especially pre- pared for the students of the Winter School in Agriculture (p. 114). It deals primarily with those portions of theoretical and practical economics which relate to agriculture. Winter term, tzvo-fifths study. Professor KINLEY. COURSE FOR GRADUATES 101. PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS (Advanced Course).—This course is a study of economic theory, beginning with the Physiocrats. Special attention is paid to recent development. It is based on Smith, Mill, Cairnes, Marshall, Roscher, Knies, Wagner, Bdhm-Bawerk, Clark,
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