University of Virginia record :: February, 1910 :: University of Virginia Library

Students with adequate preparation may enter any of the undergraduate
courses in the School of English Literature at the beginning
of any term of the session, and will receive full credit for
course on completing the work of the remaining term or terms of the
course in question during same subsequent session.

Course 1A: The Entrance Examination (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—This
course is designed to meet the needs of students preparing
directly for professional studies and of others where training is
inadequate for Course 2B.

I. Composition and Current Prose, with special attention to
letter-writing, abstracting, paraphrases and to the examination of
standard prose. Text-books: Carpenter's Rhetoric and Composition;
Dawsen's The Great English Letter Writers.

II. Composition and American Literature, with careful practice
in narration and description and a general survey of American literature.
Cairns's Forms of Discourse; Trent's Brief History of American
Literature.

III. Composition and English Literature, with special practice in
exposition and argumentation, and in the interpretation of English
masterpieces. Cairns's Forms of Discourse; Huichman and Gummere's
Lives of Great English Writers.

Exercises on the black-board or in writing will be required at
each recitation and parallel reading to the amount of three hundred
pages each term will be assigned. In three sections: I. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11; II. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12;
III. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Mr. Myers,
Mr. Beale.

Special Course. A special course is given during the second term
of the session, beginning in January and repeating the first term's
work of Course 1A, above. Hours by appointment. Cabell Hall. Mr.
Myers, Mr. Beale.

150

Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite. This course
will be omitted for the session of 1910-1911.

Course 3B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.

I. Advanced Rhetoric and Composition with special study of the
development and structure of modern prose mainly as exemplified in
the short story and the descriptive essay. Text-books: Genung's
Working Principles of Rhetoric; The Atlantic Monthly; Stevenson's
Selected Essays.

II. English Literature, by Periods, and Literary Criticism. Textbooks:
Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric; Winchester's
Principles of Literary Criticism; and assigned authors.

III. English Poetry and Poetic Forms: Text-books: Alden's
English Verse; Gayley and Young's Principles and Progress of English
Poetry; Professor's Notes.

About twelve hundred pages of parallel reading and about thirty
written exercises will be assigned. Three longer essays one each term,
will be required. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall.
Professor Kent.

Course 4B: Journalism: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
This course will be omitted for the session of 1910-1911.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course 5C: Course 2B or 3B (or the equivalent) prerequisite. In this
course there are occasional lectures, but in general the class meetings,
will be given up to discussion and conferences. Independent investigation
will be insisted upon, with reports, either written or oral, from time
to time. Much outside reading is necessary. Besides written exercises
and reports three essays are required, one each term, which
must show original research and independent conclusions. For session
1910-1911.

I. Shakespeare.
II. British Essayists from Bacon to Burke.
III. Nineteenth Century Poetry.

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.

Primarily for Graduates.

Course 6D: or secondary minor. This is the same as 5C with
such supplementary work both in reading or writing, as may be required.

151

Course 7D: or primary minor. The candidate for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy who has completed satisfactorily Course 6D,
will pursue such courses as the Professor may prescribe.

Course 8D: or major. The candidate who has successfully completed
the work of Course 7D, will devote the larger part of his time
to the careful investigation of the subject selected for his dissertation
and the preparation of his thesis. In addition he will meet the Professor
three hours a week for conference and the pursuit of such
courses as may be outlined to fit the candidate's peculiar needs.

II. Public Speaking.

Adjunct Professor Paul.

For Undergraduates.

Course 1B: English Literature 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—
General principles of vocal and physical expression; individual training
before an audience in applying these principles through the interpretation
of standard literature and the delivery of original speeches;
class drills in vocal technic; class drills in physical technic; philosophy
of effective material for types of public address; analysis of literary
form distinctive in oral discourse; practice in writing public addresses;
specific principles of extemporaneous speaking; individual training in
extempore and impromptu delivery. May be offered as an elective
at large. Requires six hours of class room attendance each week for
two yearly sessions, but of preparation not more than two hours per
week. Limits the membership of a section to not less than eight or
more than fifteen. Section I. Daily 9-10. Jefferson Hall.