Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-31
American University
Will Open It's Spring
Semester Tomorrow
Problems Of Postwar
World Subject Of One
Course Offered
The spring semester of American

The spring semester of American
University begins tomorrow.
Students in the school of social
sciences and public affairs are al
lowed to register until the second
meeting of the nearly 200 courses
being offered. Registration in the
day and evening divisions of the
college of arts and sciences starts
tomorrow with classes beginning
Wednesday morning.
Preparation for dealing with the
problems Of the postwar world are
offered by the department of social
economy. Associate Prof. Oscar
Weigert will lead a study and dis
cusslon OF the Beveridge plan in its
relation to the development of social
services in Great Britain and COM
pare this plan with American plans.
Public Assistance Course.
DR.. Morris Zelditch, general su-
perintendent of the District Public
Assistance Division, will teach Pub
lie Assistance dealing with old age
assistance, aid to dependent chill
dren, aid to the blind, war programs
of public assistance, and the rela-
tionship between public assistance
and social insurance and private
philanthropy. DR.. G. ST. j. Perrot,
chief of the Division of Public
Health Methods, National Institute
of Health, will give Current Prob
lens in Public Health and Medical
Gaze Prof. Frank Lorimer will deal
with international Populatio on
Problems Associate Prof. Oscar
Weigert is giving course in Union
Management Cooperation" dealing
with the dynamic relationships Of
labor and industry.
Emphasis in the evening division
of the College of Arts and Sciences
continues to be upon the technical
training necessary to war and upon
the basic liberal arts studies. The
college is offering special curricu-
1ums leading to the degrees of asso-
ciate in science and associate in
arts.
The college is giving courses in
general physics, meterology, vacuum
tubes and radio circuits, analytical
geometry, intermediate college alge-
bra, plane trigonometry, elements of
navigation, library science, journal
ism and the current war, advanced
news writing, and a survey of Eng
lish literature. Courses in the de-
partment of biology include: gen.
eral zoology, general botany, COM
parative vertebrate anatomy. and
wildlife management Prof. William
B. Holton will give Advanced Or
ganic Chemistry" Courses in French,
Spanish and Russian will be offered
in the Department Of Modern Lam
guages.
Assistant Prof. Peter P. Stapay,
in the department OF secretarial
science, will direct courses in be-
ginning typewriting, intermediate
and advanced Short
hand, dictation and transcription.
The emphasis upon training for
the new world of the postwar epoch
is found in the department of inter-
national administration of the
school of social sciences and pub
lie affairs in which Prof. Egon
Wertheimer will offer
courses in Central and Eastern
European Problems" and "Contem-
porary Diplomatic Problems" To
discuss the role Of foreign service In
the relationships of the postwar
world, the university had added to
its faculty John G. Erhardt. chief of
the division of foreign service per-
sonnet, department of state. He
will conduct a clinical study Of the
diplomatic and consular services.
Economics and Ethics.
In the field of economics, the same
is found in the Problems
of the Postwar World" offered by
DR.. George Galloway; in Latin
American Trade Problems" by DR..
George Wythe, and by DR.. Adolf
Drucker on international Economic
Policies in Transition"
In the field of ethics, Prof. Ernst
Correll will lead the study of "Reli-
gion and Culture" dealing with the
influence of Christian ethics in the
Occidental world.
In the field of financial admins
tration, Prof. Seckler-H Hudson will
offer course in "Budgeting, an In
strument of Planning and Manage
ment" which will deal with a field
which is so vital to the stability OF
the economic and political order.
Adjunct Prof. Howard Piquet will
give his course in Contemporary
Economic Thought" which is SO
basic to understanding the move
ments in economic action and Prof.
Fritz Karl Mann will give an "Ad-
vanced Fiscal Theory Course" for a
selected group of graduate students.
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