Human Relations

THE Dartmouth curriculum this fall includes a new course in Human Relations, being taught by faculty members from the psychology, sociology and philosophy departments. Financed at the outset by a gift of $50,000 from an interested donor, the two-semester course will deal with individual and group relationships and is designed to help the student "acquire insight into his potentiality for selfdirection and growth in respect to interpersonal and inter-group relationships." It has been developed by a special faculty committee working for the past two years.

New developments and research in the field of human relations have led to the teaching of this subject in several of the country's leading universities. Yale has an Institute of Human Relations and Harvard a department of Social Relations. Cornell has developed a course in Human Relations, and Northwestern recently added a similar course to its curriculum. Dartmouth's new course is one of the first offered by an undergraduate, liberal arts college.