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JAMES WILSON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.
I. Economics.
Economics B1: The Principles of Economics. (Not open to first year
students).—First and second terms: Survey of the principles of economics.
Third term: The bearing of these principles upon present American
conditions. Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned readings, reports,
and discussions.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Adjunct
Professor Snavely and assistants.
Economics B2: Statistics and Accounting: Economics B1 prerequisite,
but may be taken concurrently. First term: Statistics: Statistical method,
including the collection of material, sources, making of schedules, tabulation,
diagrammatic and graphic presentation, averages, correlation, index
numbers. Second and third terms: Accounting: Technique and science,
nature and classifications, debit and credit, property accounts showing assets
inventories, adjustments, statements and balance sheets.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session hours of electives-at-large.) Adjunct Professor Snavely
and Mr. Carruthers.
Economics C1: The Growth of American Industry and Commerce:
Economics B1 and any other B course in Group IV, prerequisite.—Economic
principles as illustrated by American experience, with a study of the influence
of economic conditions upon American social and political development.
The work is mainly topical, and the topics receiving chief emphasis
vary from year to year. Adjunct Professor Snavely.
Economics C2: Public Finance: Economics B1 and one other B course
in Group IV, prerequisite.—First and second terms: The general principles
of public finance, with a detailed investigation of state and local taxation.
Third term: The financial institutions and methods of the federal government.
Adjunct Professor Snavely.
Only one of the courses, Economics C1 and C2, will be given in any
one session.
Economics C3: Money and Banking and International Trade: Economics
B1 and one other B course in Group IV, prerequisite.—First and second
terms: Money and Banking: A study of monetary systems, forms of
money and monetary standards, price level and its fluctuations, principles
of banking accounts, national banking system and the Federal Reserve System,
government financing. Third term: International Trade: Sources of
raw materials and important commodities, shipping, trade agreements, commercial
treaties, tariffs, international exchange, reconstruction problems.—
Adjunct Professor Snavely.
Economics C4: Business Organization: Economics B1 and one other B
course in Group IV, prerequisite.—Forms of business organization, growth
of corporation, corporation laws of different States, sources of capital, different
kinds of stocks and bonds, borrowing power of corporations, profits
and distribution of earnings, use of surplus; governmental restrictions on
business and industry; problems of the war and of reconstruction.—Hours
by appointment. Adjunct Professor Snavely. Omitted in 1920-1921.
Economics D1: A Course of Research.—Adjunct Professor Snavely.
II. Government.
Government B1: Constitutional Government.—A description and comparison
of the theories and essential features of the governments of the
United States, England, France, Germany, and Switzerland, with the greatest
stress on the government of the United States and the work of Congress,
and governmental institutions and the war. Instruction by lectures,
textbook study, assigned readings, written reports, and conferences with
the instructor.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate Professor
Rogers and assistants.
Government C1: International Relations: Government B1, and one B
course in economics, commercial law, or commercial geography, prerequisite
be taken together).—The nature of international law; the scope of existing
international government; the causes of modern wars; the problem of preserving
peace (peace projects of the past, the adequacy of arbitral machinery,
recent proposals); international economic relations; backward peoples;
the foreign policy of the United States; the problems of the war and of the
peace treaty. Associate Professor Rogers. Omitted in 1920-1921.
Government C2: Political Parties.—The origin, development and organization
of political parties in the American (federal, state and municipal)
and foreign governmental systems, with a consideration of current
party issues and problems. Associate Professor Rogers.
Government D1: Politics and Jurisprudence.—Various concepts of the
state, of sovereignty, and of political obligation; American political theories;
the nature, sources, and forms of law, and its philosophical and sociological
aspects.—Hours by appointment. Associate Professor Rogers.
Government D2: Constitutional Aspects of Social and Economic Problems.—The
constitutional limitations on governmental action with respect
to property and industry; labor problems, the regulation of corporations,
interstate commerce, social legislation, the extension of federal authority,
etc.—Hours by appointment. Associate Professor Rogers. Omitted in
1920-1921.
III. Commercial Geography.
Commercial Geography B1: General Survey.—The agricultural, industrial
and artistic production of the various nations of the world, the conditions
governing the markets, the laws of international exchange, the development
of trade relations and a summary of the history of commerce and
the shifting, with time, of trade routes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours
of electives-at-large.) Associate Professor Bardin. Omitted in 19201921.
Commercial Geography B2: Economic Geography of Latin America.
—(Will be given if as many as thirty men apply for it at registration. No
one admitted after the first term.) A general survey of the civilization, past
and present, of the republics of South and Central America and Mexico.—
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Associate Professor
Bardin.
Commercial Geography D1: A Course of Research.—Associate Professor
Bardin.
IV. Commercial Law.
Commercial Law B1: Not Open to First-Year Students.—A detailed
study of the fundamental and important, rather than the technical, principles
of those subjects of which some knowledge is necessary in ordinary
commercial transactions, including contracts, negotiable instruments,
agency, partnerships, bailments and carriers, sales of personal property, insurance.
Instruction is given in the practical drafting of business documents,
such as simple contracts, powers of attorney, articles of copartnership,
3 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Mr. Boyd.
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