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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Social Relations Department is unique in many ways. Only three years old, it shows the strain of maturation in many of its limbs, but as it is growing, so it is strengthening and pushing out in new directions. First, many of its courses are taught by two, three and...
Another unique departure is the lack of prerequisites throughout the field. The concentrator or the free lance student can get into the area at almost any point. Social Relations la is a good background for all other courses in the department, but it is not essential and can be finessed...
Tutorial is open to all honors candidates from sophomore year, for one year with credit. The tutorial staff is comparatively large and includes most of the big names of the department. Furthermore, tutorial is often conducted on lines of original research, subjects for which are unlimited in either psychology, sociology...
During the last year, the empirical side of Social Relations has become more and more stressed with in the department. Although personal theories by Professors Parsons, Allport, Sorokin, Murray, Kluckhohn, Zimmerman, and White still predominate in the reading and lectures throughout the Department, six factual and statistical courses were grafted...
The department discourages undergraduates from concentrating in its courses, because it feels that men who want to work in this area had better get a more general grounding in the classics and history first.