PUBLIC HOUSING IS SUBJECT OF STUDY COURSES
Public Housing Is Subject Of Study Courses Universities of Nati o n Feature Training Classes WASHINGTON, D. C—Evidencing the nation's amounting interest in low-rent public housing, an ever...
...Martin Wagner, rormerty head of the building department of the city of Berlin, Germany, and formerly counsellor for city planning in Istanbul...
...H. S. Morrison...
...2, in cooperation with the National Association of Housing Officials, the New York City Housing authority, and the New York state division of housing...
...The subject will be "Basic Discussion of Site and Shelter...
...The lecturer will be Prof...
...William V. Reed, of the USHA projects division, will lecture on public housing at an extension course for teachers this summer...
...In the Harvard Graduate School of Education several summer courses for teachers, under the direction of Dr...
...In New York State New York state educational institutions are particularly active in the public housing field, the USHA checkup reveals...
...The University's sociological department also stresses the sociological aspects of housing...
...Columbia university is offering what is believed to be the first graduate degree In housing offered by an American university...
...Cornell university Includes the study of housing In the curriculum of Its College of Architecture, and "Housing from the Standpoint of Home Economics" Is studied in the College of Home Economics...
...Catherine Bauer, special consultant of the USHA, opened the course this spring with a series of lectures to upper division and graduate students and faculty members...
...Dartmouth college has a course on "City Planning and Housing" under the direction of Prof...
...New York University and the University of Buffalo give the subject important place in their curricula...
...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Haven, Connecticut...
...Denoting the interest in the subject on the Pacific Coast, the University of California, in Berkeley, has established a lectureship course under the auspices of the Rosenburg Foundation, a California corporation for charitable purposes...
...Weekly Lectures One of the most important recent additions to the list of higher educational institutions which have included public housing coures in their curriculums is the College of the City of New York...
...The University ot Missouri will include the discussion of public housing in a summer course for public school teachers...
...This will be the second annual public housing institute conducted under these auspices...
...Requests for data for high school courses have been received from boards of education in Baltimore, Maryland...
...This famo'us free college has arranged ofr a series of weekly lectures by Morris Miller, assistant general counsel ot the United States Housing authority...
...Public Housing Is Subject Of Study Courses Universities of Nati o n Feature Training Classes WASHINGTON, D. C—Evidencing the nation's amounting interest in low-rent public housing, an ever increasing number of colleges and universities have prefected plans for including instruction in various phases af the subject in summer extension courses or institutes opening shortly A number of high schools throughout the country also are planning courses in housing for the coming fall terms and have already joined in discussions of procedure and functioning with representatives of the United States Housing Authority...
...The University of Maryland has two housing courses and also takes advantage of Its location near the national capital for the cooperation of the USHA and other government agencies for special instruction of its students...
...Dartmuth, Harvard, Maryland...
...Norfolk...
...Virginia...
...Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and Xavier...
...Harvard university summer school will have a course of lectures on housing this summer...
...Among the higher educational institutions now giving instruction on public housing, according to a recent check-up by the USHA Informational Division, are the following universities...
...The University of Buffalo, in connection with the City Planning Association of Buffalo, maintains a research station for graduate students specializing in city planning and housing...
...Public Housing Courses New York University offers two specific courses in public housing and also has a course of instruction on technical phases in connection with courses in architecture and city planning...
...The four weeks of the institute will be apportioned between lectures and discussions, at the Washington Square Center of the University, and field work in private and public housing projects in New York City...
...Karl Pribam conducts a course on "Economic* of Housing...
...Students in the School of Architecture, beginning in the college year 1940-1941, may work towards the degree of "Master of Science in Planning and Housing...
...Louisville, Kentucky, and other cities, and from individual teachers and school officials throughout the country...
...New York university will conduct a four-week course on "Housing-Management Training" from July 8 to Aug...
...James A. Michener and others, will include a study of the social aspects of housing...
...The school is understood to be planning scveraJ additional courses in public housing for the coming fall term...
...Lectures on the subject will be given by Hazel Srhultz, an Instructor in the home economic department...
...American, Buffalo, California, Columbia, Cornell...
...Howard E. Wilson...
...assistant professor of architecture, is schooLs of architecture or landscape architecture, or of civil, architectural or general engineering...
...Newark, New Jersey...
...American University, In Washington, D. C., has three courses on housing for graduate student...
...This awakening of educators to the need for a more thorough understanding of American housing problems is revealed by the steadily growing number of requests being received by the United States Housing Authority for data and literature to be used for public housing instruction...
...Lena Ware lectures on "American Communities" and "Problems of Urbanization...
...The course, under Carl Feiss...
...Columbia university...
...The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania includes a wide range of housing problems In its real estate courses...
...Xavier university in New Orleans, Louisiana, Includes the study of housing In the curriculum of its school of social science...
...These students may obtain the Master of Public Administration by majoring in city planning and housing...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
