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CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.

Professor Dabney.

Mr. Douglas.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Unit A of history (p. 72) 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
is given to those events and periods that have markedly determined 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 Ages; 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 Years' 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: Courses 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 method
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 historical works. 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 States. 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.