SCHOOL OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES.
German A1: For students who are not prepared to enter German B1. Elementary
grammar, composition, dictation, reading and conversation.—(B.A. or
B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those who have not offered German for entrance.)
Five hours a week. Professor Faulkner.
German B1: German A1 or the equivalent, prerequisite.—Reading of about
eight hundred pages of modern German prose, illustrative of German life and
thought since 1870-71, with dictation, and composition work in free reproduction.—
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor
Faulkner.
German B2: German B1 prerequisite.—First term: German lyric and
ballad poetry, with reading in class of ballads and lyrics of Goethe, Schiller, and
Heine, and assigned parallel reading in other poets. Second term: Goethe's
Faust, Part I. Third term: Goethe's Faust, Part II.—History of German literature,
once a week, throughout the session. Parallel reading in second and
third terms, of selected dramas of Schiller, Lessing and Goethe. Dictation and
composition once a week.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor
Faulkner.
German C1: German B1 and B2 prerequisite.—The History and Development
of the German Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Pro-seminar, with directed
research study of selected novels of Goethe, Gottfried Keller, Sudermann,
Frennsen, and Thomas Mann. Professor Faulkner. Given in alternate years
with German C2. Given in 1921-22.
German C2: German B1 and B2 prerequisite.—First term (conducted in
English): Historical grammar, with selected readings in specimens of early
New High German prose and poetry. Second and third terms. Goethes Jugend:
Gedichte bis 1775; Dichtung und Wahrheit. Weekly seminar: Goethes Faust,
I. und II. Teil. Professor Faulkner. Given in alternate years with German
C1. Offered in 1922-23.
The following courses are open only to candidates for a doctor's degree in
one of the Schools of English, English Literature, Latin, Greek, Romanic or Germanic
Languages, who have already completed not less than one year of graduate
work as candidates for that degree. Only one course will be given in any
one session. German C1 or C2 prerequisite. Three hours a week, by appointment.
Professor Faulkner.
German D1.—Gothic and Old High German.
German D2.—Middle High German, with readings in the Nibelungenlied.
German D3.—Middle High German, with readings in Walther von der Vogelweide.
