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Primarily for Undergraduates.

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 whose training is inadequate
for Course 2B.

I. Composition and Rhetoric, with special reference to the structure
of sentences and paragraphs, composition of letters, business papers, etc.,
and practice in the forms of discourse. Text-books: To be announced.

II. History of American Literature. This course is based upon the
text-book, but the text will be amplified and explained by comment and
discussion. Text-book: Abernethy's American Literature; Assigned Readings.
Or History of English Literature. Text-book: Halleck's History
of English Literature; Assigned Reading.

III. The Study of Poetry. This course is restricted to a study of
common verse forms, with practical exhibition of their uses. Textbooks:
To be announced.

Frequent exercises on the black-board and in writing will be required,
and parallel reading to the amount of three hundred pages each term will
be assigned.

Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.

I. Review of Rhetoric; and Nineteenth Century Prose. Text-books:
To be assigned.

II. Shakespeare: A brief study of his Life and Times, with special
study of four plays. Text-books: Jenks, In the Days of Shakespeare;
King John; Twelfth Night; Othello; and The Tempest (Arden Series).

III. American Prose and Poetry.

IV. English Poetry, with review and practice of poetic forms. Textbooks:
Gayley and Young's Principles and Progress of English Poetry;
and Professor's Notes on Poetics.

V. General Review of English Literature. Text-book: Moody and
Lovett's English Literature.

About twelve hundred pages of parallel reading will be assigned during
the session. There will be about twenty written exercises, and three
required essays on literary topics.

Course 3B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Either
Course 2B or Course 3B may be offered as the elective from Group
III, and the other may be offered as an elective at large.

I. Literary Style. This covers Diction, Sentence, and Paragraph,
with a general discussion of the art of composition. Text-books: Genung's
Working Principles of Rhetoric.

II. Description, with specimens of descriptive writing in prose and
poetry. Text-books: Genung's Rhetoric, with Selected Specimens.

III. Narration, with special study of the Short Story and the History
of Fiction. Text-books: Genung's Rhetoric; Specimens of American
Short Story.

IV. Exposition, with special study of literary criticism. Genung's
Rhetoric, Winchester's Literary Criticism.

V. Argumentation, with special study of Debate. Genung's Rhetoric,
Baker's Principles of Argumentation (1904).

VI. Oratory and Forms of Spoken Discourse. Genung's Rhetoric,
Robinson's Forensic Oratory.

VII. Poetry, with discussion of Versification, Types of Poetry,
Chronological Use of Certain Forms, etc. Text-books: Professor's Notes:
and Page's Nineteenth Century Poetry.

About nine hundred pages of parallel reading will be assigned for the
session, and about thirty written exercises. Three essays, one each term,
will be required.

Course 4: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—This course
may be offered as an elective at large.