The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-13
WILL EXTEND WORK
University Of Wisconsin will Offer
Correspondence sCourses. in
All Departments This Year
CHANCE FOR NIGHT STUDENTS

The remarka ble.success of the coll
1ege of agriculture of the university
of Wisconsin in helping the farmers
of the state with the solution of their
practical problems has led President
Van Hise and the state university
regents to extend the same methods
of instruction to the man in the shop,
the clerk, the book keeper, house
keeper, teacher. and to wage earners
of every class who are unable TO at
tend college, so that they may in
crease their practicalsknowledge and
their opportunities for advancement.
This extension work of the university
will be done through correspondence
courses which will be simple and
pr actica1, and will be given at cost
SO low as to just coversthe expense of
maintain nee. 1t is planned to have
these .rrespondence courses fit into
the regular courses of the university
in such a Way as to inspire young
men and women with an ambition to
continue study at Madison and fit
themselves for still higher positions.
The schedule arranged for this work
has been planned with view to
meeting, as far as possible, all de-
mands that may be made upon the de-
partment. Courses in mathematics,
history, English and liter
ature, politics and economics, educa-
ton ard philosophy, business
methods, engineering, will beincluded
in the instruction given. OF particu-
lar interest to public officials, in both
municipal and rural districts, is the
course on highway construction to be
given by w. O. Hotchkiss, of the
geology department of the university,
who has been making special investi-
cations throughout the state this
summer regarding the construction
and maintenance of good roads. His
course includes consideration of
both country roads and city streets,
t.l~ir construction, drainage, bridges.
Gu. lerts, and detailed study of the
merits of various paving materials.
Fifteen courses in business ad-
ministration are offered by the depart
ment of political economy. These in
e1lde subj ectsi fundamental IN all
business activities, courses in bust
ness forms, ,correspo ndence, organiza-
ton and management, book eeping,
commercial, financial, and factory
accounting with a study of the cost
of production, Office appliances and
systems, advertising, craftsmanship,
buying, tcredits and collections, fnan-
cial operations and general course
on the practical problems of business
management.
Every one of the thirty students
who was graduated from the regular
university course in business admini-
stration last June secured a good
position before receiving his diploma,
and large business houses sent more
requests for such graduates than
could be satisfied.
The de partment of political economy
has prepared three courses, each of
forty weekly lessons, including the
elements of political economy, trans
portation, and the labor movement
and socialism. The first course will
give general survey of the funda-
menta principles, with a discussion
Of leading economic problems, as
trusts, taxation, trade unions, rail-
roads,. mouey and banking.
In the second course the relation of
railroads to other branches of in
dustrial life will be considered, with
thesgrowth ofs. the present system,
combinatieps, rates and fares, dis
examinations, and public regulation.
Considerable attention will be given
state and, federal legislation and
recent Ecourt decisions on railroad
questions. The growth, Policies, and
methods of labor organizations, the
conditions Unemployment, the trend
ct wages, public activity in behalf of
the. workers, and finally, the signi-
6cance Of the socialists appeal to the
1aboringaclasses, are to be considered
In khesthird coarse