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CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.
Professor Dabney.
Mr. Wertenbaker.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Unit A of history (p. 71) in addition
unless this unit is offered as a part of the General Entrance Examination.
Students with adequate preparation, may enter any of the courses
in the School of History at the beginning of any term of the session,
and will receive full credit for the course on completing the work
of the remaining term or terms of the course in question during
some subsequent session.
The following courses are offered:
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General History.—In this course great stress is laid
upon the unity and continuity of History, although special attention
the course of historical evolution. Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Dabney.
Text-Books.—Dow's Atlas of European History; Capes' Age of the Antonines;
Thatcher's and Schwill's Europe in the Middle Age; Thatcher's and McNeal's Source
Book for Mediæval History; Myers' The Modern Age; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant
Revolution; Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Longman's Frederick the Great and
the Seven Year's War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution; Morris's French
Revolution and First Empire.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: English and American History: Course 1B prerequisite.—In
this higher course the principles taught in the course preceding
will be applied to a more special field; and, in order that the
students may be encouraged to exercise independent thought and
judgment, they will be required to write essays or make reports on
particular topics. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall.
Professor Dabney.
Text-Books.—To be announced later.
Primarily for Graduates.
Only one of the two following courses will be given in any one
year. The first is broad and extensive, the second, minute and intensive.
Course 3D: Course 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
Intellectual, Moral, Religious, and Social Development of Europe.—
The course will begin with a study of the principles of historical
methods based upon the "Introduction to the Study of History" by
Langlois and Seignobos; and these principles will then be applied to
the critical examination of a number of works by such authors as
Buckle, Lecky, Draper, Guizot, Andrew D. White, Bryce, and others.
In addition to critical discussions of, and written examinations upon
each of the works selected, a critical written essay upon each of them
will also be required. Required, together with Courses 1B and 2C, of
students selecting History as primary minor subject for the Ph. D.
degree. Hours by appointment.
Course 4D: Courses 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
History of the Reconstruction of the Southern State. A close study
of the sources, as well as of the secondary authorities in this period.
Required, together with Courses 1B, 2C, and 3D, of students selecting
History as major subject for the Ph. D. degree, or, together with
Courses 1B and 2C, of those selecting it as primary minor. Hours
by appointment.
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