Causes of the current wars in Europe and Asia will be the subject of a new evening course by Associate Professor Payson S. Wild Jr. to be offered starting Feb. 7 by the commission on Extension Courses of Harvard and ten other Greater Boston institutions.

The course, entitled "International Relations," will be held Wednesday nights, 7:15 to 8.45 o'clock, in Emerson Hall.

Other courses of the Commission opening in the first week of February will be: "The History of France Since Napoleon," Assistant Professor Donald C. McKay, Tuesday and Fridays at 7:30 o'clock, starting Feb. 6. Emerson Hall; "Psychology of Personality." Professor Wayland F. Vaughan. Boston University, Mondays and Thursdays 7:30 o'clock, starting Feb. 5, Emerson Hall; and "General Zoology," Assistant professor Frank M. Carpenter, Saturdays at 10 a.m., beginning Feb. 3, at the Biological Laboratories.