TEACHING THE COLLEGE COURSE IN THE FAMILY.

This article discusses various issues related to teaching of the Family course in the American colleges. Sometimes it seems as though the Family course is misnamed since the study usually concerns marriage interaction and a second course entitled Child Welfare explicitly deals with children. In 1936 Cecil Haworth in "Education for Marriage Among American Colleges" found that 403 of the 465 member institutions of the Association of American Colleges had courses on the family. In the same year Gilbert F. Wolters made a study of 150 Catholic colleges, 58 of which offered a course on the family. Thirty were colleges for women, and twenty-eight were colleges for men. When the course was given in the sociology department, the emphasis was on the history, form, functions, and problems of the modern family as a social institution. Six colleges, three for women and three for men made the Family course compulsory. In her thesis on "A Program for Home and Family Life in Catholic Liberal Arts Colleges for Women," Mary Saint Leonard held that the content of the course should include philosophy of family living, present economic and social conditions and ideals of the American family.