72 ANNUAL CATALOGUE WEBER COLLEGE 73 68. General Secretarial Technique. Budget 1: This course begins the development of the following: letter arrangement from both printed material and from dictated shorthand notes, vertical and horizontal centering, tabulation from printer rough drafts, the addressing of envelopes and business cards, and the efficient handling of carbon copies. Budget 2: This course consists of discussion and exercises on the technique of telephoning, telegraphic service, cable and radio service. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Denning 69. General Secretarial Technique. Budget 3: Assignments are made of Postal regulations, methods of handling incoming and out going mail, transportation of goods, and transferring correspondence. Budget 4: Assignments and discussions are made on banking and financial duties, billing and invoicing, forms for business and legal instruments, and arranging statistical matter. Budget 5: Assignments and discussion are made on indexing. Two quarter hours. Winter. Denning 70. Office Machines. The uses of the following equipment are given in detail: dictating and transcribing machines, multigraph, mimeograph, and adding and listing machines. Two quarter hours. Spring. Denning 71. Commercial Arithmetic. A thorough review of the fundamentals of mathematics with special emphasis upon Commercial Arithmetic and its application to the phases of business practice. This is a terminal course. Credit not transferable to senior colleges. Five quarter hours. Autumn. Clark 73. Essentials of English. Drill in the essentials of preparatory English. Three quarter hours. Open to terminal students only. Autumn. Allred Economics Guy Harold Hurst Owen Morrell Clark It is recommended that a student pursuing a major in Economics complete Economics 1, 2, 3; Business 1, 2; and five hours from one of the following courses: Economics 4, 5, 6; Business 11, 12, 13. 1. Principles of Economics. This course deals with the fundamental principles of Economics including the following: development of the stages of economic society, human wants and their satisfaction, production, consumption, specialization, and the organization of modern business. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter. Clark 2. Principles of Economics. The subject matter of Economics 1 is used as a background for this course. Special emphasis is given to: exchange, value, prices, and price determining factors; international trade and tariff. Three quarter hours. Winter, Spring. Clark 3. Principles of Economics. A continuation of Principles of Economics 2 as applied to the distribution of wealth among the factors of production. Special attention is given to the New Deal and current economic problems. Three quarter hours. Spring. Clark 4. Economic History of the United States. A study of the evolution of industrial society in the United States from the period of colonial development down to the present. Population, immigration, natural resources, public lands, transportation and communication, extractive and manufacturing industries, markets, commerce, financial institutions, labor, government finance and tariff are treated. Five quarter hours. Autumn. Clark 5. Money and Banking. A course covering the theory and history of money, origin and principles of banking, functions of the bank, the clearing house, and Federal Reserve System. Five quarter hours. Spring. Hurst 6. Corporation Finance. This course deals with the principles and and methods employed in the functioning of business enterprise; investment of capital funds; determination of incomes, dividends, and surplusses; insolvency, receivership and reorganization. Five quarter hours. Autumn. Hurst 7. Economic Geography. Influence of geographic factors on the development of industry and commerce; commercial products and their regions of production; distribution and development of leading industries, continents and countries, relations of man to his geographic environment. Five quarter hours. (May not be given 1937-1938)