As stated by Mr. Clow in his report on "Sociology in Normal Schools" in the March, I920, Journal of Sociology, the California State Board of Education has within the last few years made certain minimum requirements in sociology as part of the professional work in normal schools. In expressing these requirements, one of the units of work specifically called for is "Civic Sociology." It is doubtful whether the educators responsible for this requirement possessed any clear definition for "Civic Sociology" in their own minds. It is assuredly true that no two of the California normal schools have interpreted the term in the same way. It may be of some value to outline a tentative course which has been utilized in one such school during the past year in an endeavor to realize the intention of the state board. The aims of the course, as seen at San Francisco, were threefold: first, the supplying of a background of science and broad general interest as an introduction to the social studies; second, an attempt to stimulate interest in an understanding and interpretation of the place of the individual in the present social organization; third, and, with us, most important, the preparation of the individual student to meet the social problem of the teacher in the discipline of the school in a manner calculated to help her in handling it as a problem in citizenship training. The time allowed for this course was approximately sixty hours during one semester. A glance at the outline of the material as presented in the succeeding pages shows that the actual classroom time was utterly inadequate to more than touch upon a majority of the topics presented, and that the ultimate value of the work must have depended upon the outside reading done in following up the assignments.