Fourteen out of 25 allow no free electives during the first year, 8 extend the restriction through the second year, and 1 permits none in the third year. Aside from the tendency to restrict electives during the first year the figures show little uniformity of trend. It is apparent that the general home economics curricula in the land-grant colleges show very little agreement as to what part of the total should be in home economics subjects, what part in the sciences and humanities, and what proportion left for free electives. In so far as uniformity of such distribution is a feature that might be expected in a curriculum with common standards throughout the United States it is evident that the general home economics curriculum does not satisfy this measure of judgment. Content of General Home Economics Curricula Statements of objectives may be confused and formal regulations in regard to distribution of time between requirements and electives may vary, but the courses that constitute the general home economics curriculum might be so uniform as to result in a considerable degree of similarity between these curricula in the different institutions. It is desirable, therefore, to apply this test to the actual offerings of the general home economics curriculum in order to determine whether from the standpoint of content this curriculum has a common meaning in the land-grant colleges. The general reader will find the detail of such a study extremely uninteresting reading, but concrete presentation is so essential to understanding of the actual situation that it is believed home economics staffs will desire even more data than can be given by this report. The information provided by 35 institutions was sufficiently consistent and exact to justify use in the tabulation of the hours required in the various subjects presented in Table 18 and other portions of this report. These variations have been carefully considered and are due to factors that do not affect the validity of the conclusions drawn or the trends indicated. TABLE 18.-Number of semester hours required in general home economics curricula in land-grant institutions = Includes hours "not set" in any particular year-but required. 33 88 6 6 14 3 39 3366 18 12 TABLE 18.-Number of semester hours required in general home economics curricula in land-grant institutions-Continued 2 Includes hours "not set" in any particular year-but required. 7 |