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CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.

Professor Dabney.

Mr. Tucker.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Unit A of history (p. 74) 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.

The undergraduate courses in History will be based not only
upon the idea that "the proper study of mankind is man," and that,
therefore, all important human events, even those of the remote past,
are of interest to human beings, but also upon the idea that every highly
educated man should have an intelligent comprehension of himself

and the age in which he lives—which intelligent comprehension it
is as impossible to gain without a study of the past as it would be
to comprehend thoroughly an oak tree without studying the acorn
from which it sprang as well as the soil, climate and other features
of the environment that have modified its development in the course
of time. The barbarian tribes that overthrew the Roman Empire
were the acorns from which the modern national oaks have sprung;
and the literature, art, and thought of Greece, the imperialism of
Rome, and the Christian religion are the chief influences that have
affected the development of these acorns through the centuries.
No man can have a scientific understanding of himself and the modern
world without a fair knowledge of these things; and every student
who desires such an understanding is therefore advised to take
at least the two courses, B1 and B2, in which they are treated.
Credit will be given for either course separately; but students electing
History in 1912-13 will be required to take B1 unless there be
some good reason for their taking B2. Under special circumstances
both courses may be taken simultaneously.

Course B1: General History to the close of the Middle Age.—
The chief topics treated will be Greek civilization, Roman imperialism,
the rise and spread of Christianity, Monasticism, the Barbarian
Invasions, the Papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, Feudalism, Mohammedanism,
the Crusades, and the early development of Nationalism
in Europe. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Dabney.

Course B2: Modern History.—Course B1, or Units A and B of
History (p. 74 prerequisite.—The chief topics treated will be the Renaissance,
the Protestant Revolution, the Thirty Years' War, the
Puritan Revolution, the development of Spain, France, England
and Prussia, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, and
the leading events of the nineteenth century. (B. A. or B. S. credit,
3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall
Professor Dabney.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course C1: History of the United States. Courses B1 and B2
prerequisite.—In addition to a considerable amount of reading, essays
or reports, based upon the sources as well as upon secondary authorities,
will be required. This course is required of students electing History
as one of their subjects for the Master's or Doctor's degree.
It may also be taken as an elective-at-large for the Bachelor's degree.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall, Professor
Dabney.

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 D1: Courses B1, B2 and C1 prerequisite.—Intellectual,
Moral, Religious and Social Development of Europe.—In addition
to critical discussions of, and written examinations upon a large
number of historical works, a critical essay upon each of them will
be required. Hours by appointment. Professor Dabney.

Course D2: Courses B1, B2 and C1 prerequisite. History of the
Reconstruction of the Southern States. A close study of the sources
as well as of the secondary authorities on this period. Hours by
appointment. Professor Dabney.

For summer-school-courses in History, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.