st~mcil 1/1959

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THE CMTBER~A UNIVK::.SITY COLLEGE

DEPA?i.Tl 'IENT OF ECONO i•'i:IC :HSTORY

Annua l Report ±9-21

In 1958 the staff of the Department consisted of Professor H. Burton and Mr Colin Forster as lecturer. Two courses were offerGd during the year, Economic History Part I and Economic History Part II, each following the syllabus of the University of Melbourne . Mr Forster took complete responsibility for the Part II courses; he also conducted tutorials in Part I, and shared the honours work in this subject .

STUDENT P:SRFORHANCES

Four candidates sat for the annual examination in Part II and all four obtained passes . Twenty-five students enrolled in Part I but several of these were obliged to cancel their enrolment in the cc,urse of the year. Twenty-one students actually entored for the examination but two were absent as a result of serious illness. Of the nineteen candidates who took the examination, 13 passed , and 1.:- of these obtained honours. (Two second class honours, and two third class honours).

RESEA..BCH

During the year Mr Forster continued his research on his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on the subject of Industri:3.l Development in Austra.lia 1920-30. It is expected that he will present this thesis in the course of 1959.

RELATIONS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Professor Woodruff visited the College in the first week of First Term and met the classes both in Economic History Part I and Part II. Members of the Department also visited Melbourne during the year and maintained close contact with the staff in the Economic History Department of the University of Melbourne. Both Mr Forster and I myself shared in the setting of examination papers in Economic History Parts I and II. We also participated in the markine of the papers of Canberra students although the final decision of course rested with the University of Melbourne . Both Mr Forster and I attended the Conference on Business History organised by the Business Archives Council of AustrRlia (Victorian Branch) in the University of Melbourne at the end of October, 1958. Both of us participated actively in the work of the conference which proved an outstandinG success.

19th December, 1958.

sgd. Herbert Burton Professor of Economic History