48 WEBER COLLEGE WEBER COLLEGE 49 THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY Professor ECONOMICS Economics. 1. Industrial Society. This course presents a general survey of industrial society, its structure, its institutions, and its operations. As a basis for comparative study, the first part of the course examines briefly the structure of medieval industrial society and the evolution of modern capitalistic industry. The second part of the work deals with certain outstanding features of the present industrial society, such as private exchange; co-operation; the pecuniary organization of society and the financial institutions resulting therefrom; specialization and inter-dependence; the significance of technology, using machine industry as an illustrative case; speculative industry; risk and risk bearing; the position of the worker under a wage system in capitalistic machine industry; concentration in the sense of large scale production; concentration of the ownership of wealth and income; the guidance of economic activity. The third part of the course is concerned with some underlying assumptions of our present regime, such as private property, competition, and the social control of industrial activity. The course is an introduction to the later work in economics for both Junior and Senior Colleges. Daily. Autumn quarter. Five credit hours. Professor ■ Economics. 2. This is a more intensive course especially emphasizing money and the mecha- nism of exchange; the distribution of wealth; problems of labor; problems of economic organization; and taxation. Economics 1 is a prerequisite of this course. Daily. Winter quarter. Five credit hours. Professor SOCIOLOGY Sociology 1, 2. Elementary. General course including an account of the development of society and the group; isolation and social contact; social forces, competition and conflict; accommodation and assimilation; social control; collective behavior; and social progress. Daily. Autumn and Winter. Five credit hours. Prof. Sociology 3. Rural. General exposition of village and farm life; the experiences of frontier life, the ranch and ranch folk, the rural settler, leadership and co-operative effort, problems of home and farm that affect country life, including transportation, amusements, culture, comfort, and convenience. Local application. Daily. Spring quarter. Five credit hours. Prof. Sociology 4. Urban. The evolution of the modern city, with a survey of the problems and institutions incident to their growth. M., T., W., Th. Spring quarter. Four credit hours. Professor Sociology 5. American Problems. A course given especially for Normal School students. Social, civic, and industrial economic problems will be studied and some project work assigned. Daily. Winter quarter. Five credit hours. Prof.