Indiana University Training Course for Social Work records, 1927-1945
Finding aid prepared by Katie Martin.
Summary Information
Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives
Creator
Indiana University. Department of
Sociology.
TitleIndiana University Training Course for
Social Work records, 1927-1945
Collection No.
C600
Extent
1 cubic foot (1 box)
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
The first courses in professional social
work were taught at Indiana University in the Department of Economics and Sociology
in 1911. In 1935, the Training Course for Social Work was established as a division
of the Department of Sociology. The program offered graduate level courses in
hospital social work, probation, parole, public relief, child welfare, and
institutional work. In 1942, the Training Course for Social Work proposed an
accelerated war service program that could be completed in one year and four months.
The collection consists of departmental budget ledgers, correspondence, faculty
meeting minutes, and information pertaining to field and extension
service.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.
Administrative History
The first courses in professional social work were taught at Indiana University in
the Department of Economics and Sociology in 1911. In 1915, courses were organized
under the Social Service Department in cooperation with the School of Medicine and
Indiana University Hospitals. In 1924, social work training was again placed under
the jurisdiction of the Department of Economics and Sociology under the title of
Training Course for Social Work. In 1935, the Department of Economics and Sociology
split and the Training Course for Social Work became a division of the Department of
Sociology.
The Great Depression and World War I increased the need for trained social workers.
Indiana University responded by training students in subjects beyond hospital social
work to include probation, parole, public relief, child welfare, and institutional
work, both public and private. The Training Course for Social Work was a graduate
program that granted a Master of Arts in Social Work to be completed in four
semesters and included instruction and field experience. In 1942, the Training
Course for Social Work offered an accelerated war service program that could be
completed in one year and four months in compliance with the Indiana University's
Administrative War Council's goal of graduating students before they reached
military age. From 1937-1944, professors from the Training Course for Social Work
partnered with the Indiana Department of Public Welfare to provide instructional
sessions via the In Service Training Program in counties throughout the state. After
World War II, IU's social work program separated from the Department of Sociology
and became a separate academic unit with its own director and administration.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into a single series: Administrative files.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of one series, Administrative files, and includes records
that detail the history of the teaching of social work at Indiana University and the
goals of the Training Course for Social Work program. Correspondence in the
collection includes general correspondence between faculty and administration in the
departments of sociology and economics as well as correspondence pertaining to
extension services and student field work in various counties throughout Indiana.
The collection also contains meeting minutes of the Special Consultant Committee on
Recruitment and correspondence related to increasing the number of trained social
workers in the state of Indiana, ordered chronologically. Faculty meeting minutes in
this series discuss faculty committees, extension courses, the accelerated war
service program, and curriculum decisions. The "Wartime Committee on Personnel
(Mailing List) 1944" folder consists of copies of letters sent to prospective
students of the accelerated program. The "Clippings" folder is ordered in reverse
chronological order and contains newspaper article pertaining to the work of faculty
in the Training Course for Social Work program at Indiana University and beyond.
Also included are departmental budget ledgers spanning 1934-1944.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
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Related Material
Additional records such as newsletters, annual reports, bulletins, and publications
may be accessed in the
Archives of Institutional Memory.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Accession 0266
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Preferred Citation
[Item], Indiana University Training Course for Social Work records, Collection C600, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Processing InformationProcessed by Katie Martin.
Completed in 2016
Container List
Series:
Box 1
Administrative files, 1927-1945
Agency Executive Committee on Recruiting, 1941-1942
Clippings, 1929-1942
Correspondence,
1938-1939
1939-1940
1940-1941
1941-1942
1943-1944
1944-1945
Department Budget Ledgers, Salaries and Wages,
1934-1937
1938-1940
Department Budget Ledgers, Supplies and Expenses,
1934-1943
1940-1944
Extension Course Study and In-Service Training, 1937-1944
Faculty Meetings,
1939-1940
1941-1942
Field Work, 1938-1939
Field Work Standards, 1934-1935
Field Work Supervisor's Meeting, 1939-1940
Miscellaneous (T.C.S.W), 1939-1944
Plans (T.C.S.W.), 1927-1942
Scholarships, 1937-1943
Wartime Committee on Personnel (Mailing List) 1944
W.P.A Library Project, 1938-1939
