The 1930–31 catalog announced a three-hour course, Public Relations, that was required in all curricula. It was a one-quarter course. It was open to juniors and seniors, and if not elected in the junior year, was required in the senior year. Differing from what public relations encompasses today, the course included lectures and discussions of various phases of the life of the state—religious, literary, social, and economic. Several faculty presented the various sections dealing with such aspects as taxation, industrial development, public health, water power, education, and banking.