Evening star., 1943-08-15
American u. Offers
Courses in 10 Fields
Vital 10 Postwar Era

On the theory that education this
fall must emphasize technical COM
petence for dealing with the COM
plicated problems in the wake of
war, the school of social sciences
and public affairs of the American
University deliberately has refused
military programs and will open it's
fall sessions on wholly civilian
basis.
Courses are offered in 10 fields:
The theory and practice of admin
lstration, personnel administration
and labor problems, fiscal policy and
administration, business adminis-
tration and economic organization,
political and social institutions,
economic-political-social theory, in
ternational affairs and world organ
ization, effective communication in
cluding English, speech and spoken
Languages, quantative methods in
Guiding accounting and statistics,
and the foundations of society in
Guiding the historical, cultural and
physical backgrounds to our con-
temporary problems.
Dealing with the more immediate
difficulties, the school will offer
course in Personnel Problems in
Postwar Placement and Re-employ-
ment" with special lecturers includ-
ing Lawrence A. Appley, executive
director of the War Manpower Com
mission. Associate Prof. Oscar Wei
gert will deal with other aspects of
the problem in a course on Current
Manpower Problems" DR.. Gustav
Peck will discuss Labor and the
Economic Order" The problems of
finance will be dealt with by DR..
Milton Gilbert of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
lecturing on the Theory and Meas
urement of the National Income"
while Adjunct Prof. Amos Taylor
will cover War and Postwar Prob
lens in international Finance" and
DR.. Ernest Swanson will teach
Corporate Finance in a Changing
Economy"
Associate Prof. Ludwig will deal
with Air Transportation" while DR..
Corwin D. Edwards teaches Indus
trial Organization and Public
Policy"
Dean James J. Robbins will offer
the Theory of Modern Politics"
and Adjunct Prof. Howard Piquet
will teach Contemporary Economic
Thought"
Looking toward the administra-
tive aspects of an international So
ciety, Prof. Egon Ranshofen-
Wertheimer will offer international
Administration and Organization"
and Prof. Stowell, who is returning
from a year spent as visiting profess
sor at the University of Washington,
will PRESENT his former courses on
international Law" and "Introduc-
ton to World Affairs" The usual
attention will be given to the rela-
tionships of the American republics
with DR.. George Wythe's course on
Outlines Of Latin American Econo-
my and DR.. Frederic Ganzert's
Latin American World"
The university will continue to
emphasize the revolutionary pro-
gram of spoken language instruction
developed by the editorial staff of
the United States Armed Forces
Institute. Courses in Introductory
and advanced Spanish. Portuguese,
German, French and Italian will be
conducted on the basis of the new
three-column texts which are now
IN press.
In the field known as "Founda-
tlonS OF Society" Prof. Louis C.
Hunter will teach The Rise of the
United States as a World Power"
and Prof. Frank Lorimer will cover
the analysis and Interpretation of
popular trends, dealing with the
demographic effects of war and
population factors in postwar ad-
juStment.
The university continues to en-
phasize its work in public admins
tration with courses in "Organiza-
tion and Management" taught by
Prof. Catheryn Seeker Hudson;
Applied Administrative Manage
ment," by Donald c. Stone; Train
ing as an Instrument of Manage
ment," by DR.. George Shipman;
Management Factors in Personnel
Administration" by Kenneth B.
Atkinson, and the Effective Utiliza-
ton of Personnel" by Parmley C.
Daniels.