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A course approved by the Governor’s Committee on Nutrition. No
service obligation. To be taught under the direction of Professor
Edna Hill, chairman of the Department of Home Economics.

Home Economics. In addition to Home Nursing and Nu-
trition and Nutrition just discussed, given with the help of
the staff of the Department of Home Economics, there are

_ several regular courses in the field which may be used to

meet a possible need of war times, either in the home or in
the community or possibly (certainly with men who serve
in the Quartermaster’s Corps) in the military camps. The
principal courses of this kind are: 3, Elementary Nutri-
tion; 4, Foods I; either 10 or 82, Health of the Family; 12,
Child Development; and 76, Standards of Living and Fam-
ily Finance.

CURRICULUM IN OccUPATIONAL THERAPY. After the first
World War those working with wounded and disabled ser-
vice men made notable use of occupational therapy as an
aid to recovery and vocational rehabilitation. In the belief
that the need for this kind of social and health activity may
presently be very urgent again, and because the number
of institutions offering the training is too few to supply the
demand already existing for trained workers, the Univer-

sity has recently organized a curriculum in occupational.

therapy, which may be elected by qualified women stu-
dents only.

The course of study will lead to a baccalaureate degree,
and will require three years of work in Lawrence, as well
as practical training at the University of Kansas Hospital
in Kansas City extending over two semesters and one sum-
mer session. Among the subjects required are English,
psychology, physiology, zoology, chemistry, anatomy, and
bacteriology; and along with these will go enrollments in
design, bookbinding, metal and leather work, weaving, the

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