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For Undergraduates.

Student with adequate preparation may enter any of the undergraduates
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 some 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 college students who have had a
four year high school course.

Section I.—Recommended to students who have satisfied the minimum
requirements for entrance.

I. Rhetoric and Composition.—A thorough review of the principles
of rhetoric; and constant practice in composition, with special attention
to letter-writing, abstract, paraphrase, and construction of the paragraph.
Text-books: Carpenter's Rhetoric and English Composition; Dawson's
Great English Letter-Writers.

II. Composition and American Literature.—Description and Narration;
History of American Literature, with class and parallel reading
of prose and poetry. Text-books: Cairne's Forms of Discourse; Abernethy's
History of American Literature; Long's Selections from American
Poets.

III. Composition and English Literature.—Exposition and Argumentation;
History of English Literature, with class and parallel reading
of prose and poetry. Text-books: Cairne's Forms of Discourse; Halleck's
English Literature; Pancoast's Standard English Prose and Standard
English Poetry.

Parallel reading and written exercises are required throughout the
session. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Mr. Myers.

Section II.—Recommended to students with good preparatory training
in English and especially those who expect to pursue further courses
in English Literature.

I. Advanced Composition.—Theory and Structure of the paragraph;
description and narration; composition of the paragraph and of longer
discourse, and investigation of standard prose. Text-books: Scott and
Denney's Paragraph-Writing (Revised Edition), or Nutter, Hersey, and
Greenough's Specimens of Prose Composition.

II. Composition and American Literature.—Exposition, and History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and poetry.
Text-books: Scott and Denney's Paragraph-Writing; Trent's American
Literature; Long's American Poetry.

Parallel reading in prose and poetry is required.

III. Composition and English Literature. — Argumentation, and
History of English Literature. Critical study of English prose and
poetry. Text-books: Scott and Denney's Paragraph-Writing; Long's
English Literature; Pancoast's Standard English Prose and Standard
English Poetry.

Parallel reading required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Mr. Myers.

Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite and Section II
of IA strongly recommended.

I. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century literature with closer study
of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, and Bunyan.

II. Eighteenth Century literature with the development of prose
from Defoe to Burke, and the transition from classicism to romanticism
in poetry.

III. Nineteenth Century literature with closer study of the essayists
and the poets.

Text-books will be assigned at the beginning of each term.

About fifteen hundred pages of parallel reading, thirty written
exercises, and three essays, one each term, will be required. Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.

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

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

II. Description, with illustrations in poetry and prose.

Narration, with special study of the short story and the biographical
sketch.

Exposition, with especial study of literary criticism as presented in
the essay.

Text-books: Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric; Winchester's
Principles of Literary Criticism; Percy's Study of Prose Fiction.

III. Oratory and its relations to Argumentation and Persuasion.

Poetry and Poetic Forms.

Text-books: Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric; Gayley and
Young's Principles and Progress of English Poetry; Alden's English
Verse; and the professor's Notes.

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

Course 4B: Journalism: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.

This course omitted for the session of 1910-11.

May be reinstated for the session of 1911-12.