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The article provides information on the courses and faculties at University of British Columbia's graduate department of sociology, Vancouver, British Columbia. The acting head is Cyril S. Belshal, Department of Anthropology and Sociology and graduate degrees offered in sociology are, MA, PhD. Staff: David F. Aberle. PhD, Prof.; Braxton M. Alfred, PhD, Asst. Prof.; Michael M. Ames, PhD, Assoc. Prof.; Cyril S. Belshaw, PhD, Prof.; Carl E. Borden, PhD, Prof.; Wilson Duff, MA, Assoc. Prof.: Mrs. A. E. Hawthorn, MA, Lect.; Harry B. Hawthorn. PhD, Prof.; Helga Jacobson. MA. Asst. Prof.; Robert D. McDougall, BA, Asst. Prof., Robin Riddington, BA, Asst. Prof.: Lionel Tiger, PhD, Asst. Prof. and William E. Willmott, PhD, Assoc. Prof.

This article provides information on an invitation made by the Program Committees of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for members to submit their suggestions for the 1974 program in Montreal, Quebec. President-elect Peter Blau has scheduled a meeting of his program committee on February 3 and 4. The VIII World Congress of the International Sociological Association will be held in Ontario the week before 1974 ASA meeting in Montreal.

This article presents the results of a survey administered to discover how much concern there is with teaching sociology at the introductory level in the U.S. and Canadian sociology departments. Findings indicate that sociology departments are grappling with the problem of making beginning sociology a more relevant intellectual experience for students with an ever-growing range of interests and expectations. In the survey, 71.1 percent of the U.S. sociology departments had the conventional one-course format in the 1971-72 academic year while 28.9 percent had some other format. Because sociology is undergoing such rapid growth, the authors wanted to find out the degree to which schools were contemplating change in the future. Some critics feel that sociology departments have failed to adapt their course formats to changing student needs. Baker and Behrens feel this way and state that "it is imperative that we ... respond to the plurality of students' abilities, interests, and expectations." The survey indicates that this pessimism represents a metaphysical pathos and that, in fact, U.S. and Canadian departments of sociology are facing the demand for change. Perhaps the most telling evidence of departments' commitments to deal with changing student needs is in the departmental responses.