 | University of Virginia record February, 1914 |  |
SCHOOL OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Faulkner.
Mr. Steger.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The general
entrance requirements.
For Undergraduates.
German A1: Beginners may take this course. Elementary
grammar and prose-composition; special training in pronunciation
and simple conversational German; reading of about 600 pages of
German prose, with conversational exercises and composition work
in free reproduction, based on texts read. (No credit for any degree.
Admits to German B1 only.) Two Sections: I. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12-1. II. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall.
Professor Faulkner, Mr. Steger.
Students entering in January, with one to two years of preliminary
training in German, may profitably register for German A1,
and will be given credit for the work of the first term, on the successful
completion of the remaining two terms.
German B1: Course A1 or German A and B of the entrance requirements
prerequisite.—Review of German grammar; Savorys
Drei Wochen in Deutschland and Schweitzer's Deutsches Lesebuch
für Quarta und Tertia; reading of about 300 pages of fiction, illustrative
of modern German life and thought; conversational exercises
and composition work in free reproduction, based on texts read,
throughout the session. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Two Sections: I. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. II. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Faulkner, Mr.
Steger.
Students entering in January, with three years or more of preliminary
training in German, may profitably register for German
B1, and will receive full credit for the course by successfully completing
the work of the second and third terms of the current session,
and that of the first term in the session next ensuing.
German B2: Course B1 or its equivalent prerequisite.—History
of German Literature; Storm and Stress and the Classic Drama; the
Romantic Movement; German lyric and ballad poetry. Reading of
exercises and composition-themes in German throughout
the session. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Faulkner.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Two courses are offered, given in alternate years. Courses B1 and
B2, or the equivalent of both, prerequisite:—In these courses all lectures
and class-work are in German. Hence students desiring to enter
the course, with advanced standing, will be required to give
satisfactory evidence of ability to understand spoken German. The
work of the courses is arranged as follows:
German C1: First Term: Der deutsche Roman in seinen typischen
Erscheinungen; Second Term: Die Tragödie der Klassiker; Third
Term: Goethe's Faust, I. and II. Teil. Seminary-work: First Term:
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre; Second Term: Wallenstein; Third
Term: Faust. Hours by appointment. To be given in 1914-1915.
Cabell Hall. Professor Faulkner.
Students with adequate preparation may register for any term
of this course.
German C2. Goethe: Leben und Werke. Seminary Work:
Dichtung und Wahrheit; die Leiden des jungen Werthers; Faust I
und II. Hours by appointment. Not given in 1913-1914. Cabell Hall
Professor Faulkner.
For Graduates Only.
The following courses are open only to candidates for a doctor's
degree in one of the schools of English, English Literature, Latin,
Greek, Romanic or Germanic Languages, who have already completed
not less than one year of graduate work as candidates for
that degree. Only one course will be given in any one session. The
selection will depend on the wishes and needs of the applicants.
Graduate students, therefore, who wish to enter any one of these
courses are requested to notify the head of the school not later
than June 15, preceding the session in which they desire to enter
the course.
For all of these courses German C1 or C2 is a prerequisite.
German D1: Gothic and Old High German. Three hours a
week, by appointment. Professor Faulkner.
German D2: Middle High German, with readings in the Nibelungenlied.
Three hours a week, by appointment. Professor Faulkner.
German D3: Middle High German, with readings in Walther von
der Vogelweide. Three hours a week, by appointment. Professor
Faulkner.
German D4: I. A half year's course in German grammar. Given
in 1913. II. A half year's course in the phonetics of German and
English. Three hours a week, by appointment. Professor Faulkner.
For summer-school courses in German, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 293.
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