TRAINING COURSE FILES,, 1934-1937, bulk 1934-1935

Summary: Documentation of the various training courses and field work coordinated by the Training Section, Family Service Division of the New Jersey Emergency Relief Administration and/or attended by NJERA staff. Instruction includes for-credit extension courses offered at Rutgers University and the New York School of Social Work, as well as in-house training programs at the Training Center in East Orange and the county and district branches of the NJERA. Documentation includes lists of students, course syllabi, outlines of lectures and class discussions, assignments submitted by students (occasionally accompanied by the instructor's comments), reading lists and students' evaluations of their experiences. There are separate folders for courses offered in various counties, such as orientation courses in Camden and supervisors' discussion groups in Bergen. There are also individual folders for each of the three groups of students that participated in the experimental Training Unit program. There is a final folder containing miscellaneous outlines.

Interesting to the researcher may be a folder concerning the first three-month group of the Training Unit, for it includes the daily log, lecture notes and lengthy course evaluation written by Rosemary MacDonald, a student case worker in the Unit.