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English 25. Rhetoric and Composition. Both Terms.—9:30; L. B.
2. Credit, one session-hour either term. Mr. Shewmake.
Either term corresponds to the first term of English A1 or A2 or A3 of the regular
session. Designed for those who seek University credit or desire to improve
their writing.
English 27. Survey of English Literature. Both Terms.—10:30; L.
B. 1 Credit, one session-hour each term. Mr. Sledd.
Corresponds to the second and third terms of English A1 of the regular session.
A survey of English Literature from the Anglo Saxon period to the death of
Tennyson.
English 28. Survey of American Literature to 1870. Both Terms.—
8:30; L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour each term. First Term,
American Poetry. Mr. Sledd. Second Term, American Prose.
Mr. Wilson.
English 29. American Prose and Verse since 1870. Both Terms.—
12:15; L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Metcalf, first term;
Mr. Sledd, second term.
Special emphasis upon the novel, the short story, and lyric verse. Corresponds
to one term of English B1 of the regular session. One year of college English
prerequisite for credit in the University of Virginia. See note below.
English 30. Contemporary English Prose and Verse. First Term.
—9:30; L. B. 3. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Wilson.
Corresponds to third term of English Literature B2 of regular session. One
year of college English prerequisite for credit in the University of Virginia. See
note below.
English 31. Tennyson and Browning. Both Terms.—4:30; L. B. 2.
Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Sledd.
Corresponds to first term of English Literature B2 of the regular session.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit in the University of Virginia.
See note below.
English 33. Contemporary English Drama. First Term.—9:30; L.
B. 1. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Metcalf.
The equivalent of one term of English Literature B2 or C1 of the regular
session. One year of college English prerequisite for B credit in the University
of Virginia. See note below.
Representative plays of Ibsen, Jones, Pinero, Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie, Yeats,
Synge, Gregory, Dunsany.
English 34. Shakespeare. Both Terms.—12:15; L. B. 2. Credit, one
session-hour. Mr. Wilson.
Either term corresponds to first term of English Literature B1 of the regular
session. One year of college English prerequisite for credit in the University of
Virginia. See note below.
English 35. Old English. First and Second Terms.—2:30; L. B. 2.
Credit, 2 session-hours. Mr. Wilson.
A beginning course in Anglo-Saxon prose. For credit at this University, three
years of college English are prerequisite. Corresponds to C1 English of the fall
term.
This course will not be given in either term for fewer than five students.
Note.—Courses 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, and 35, may carry M.A. credit for properly
qualified students who do certain additional work of strictly graduate grade.
English 145. C. Advanced English Grammar. Both Terms.—12:15;
C. H. 4. Credit, 2 hours. Mr. Shewmake.
Designed especially for high school teachers. No subject in the curriculum is
more unsettled than that of grammar, which is now in a transition stage. The
multiplication of high schools in the South has called attention afresh to the importance
of English, but there is still little uniformity in methods of teaching it.
An attempt will be made to suggest a new method and a different standard of instruction
in grammar.
English 146. The Teaching of English in the High School. First
Term.—10:30; L. B. 3. Credit, 2 hours, one session-hour. Mr.
Shewmake.
This course is designed for high school teachers, supervisors, and principals. The
purpose of the lectures will be to familiarize the members of the class with the
in the list of works required for college entrance, and to make practical suggestions
in regard to the main problems that confront teachers of composition. A
notebook plan will be outlined.
English 151. Methods in Language and Grammar. Second Year
Summer School Professional Course, Grammar Grade.—10:30;
C. H. 5. Credit, 2 hours. Mrs. Matthews.
Review of Emerson and Bender's Modern English, Book II. A. Review of subject
matter. B. Review of methods.
English 152. Literary Interpretation. First Term.—8:30; L. B. 3.
Credit, 2 hours. President and Mrs. Southwick.
Adapted to teachers of oratory, literature, vocal interpretation, public school
teachers, public speakers. Practical course. Individual work. (Evolution of Expression,
Volumes I and II.)
English 153. Platform Art. First Term.—10:30; L. B. 2. Credit,
one session-hour. President and Mrs. Southwick.
Public reading; the reader's technique; music in selections; character delineations;
dialect and humorous reading; monologues, impersonation; arrangement of
programs; interpretative recitals. Practical course for public readers. Open only
to those who elect Course I.
English 154. Shakespeare. Frst Term.—4:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 2
hours. President and Mrs. Southwick.
Literary and interpretative study of a group of great tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth,
Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar.
English 155. Voice Training. First Term.—2:30; L. B. 1. Credit,
with English 156, 2 hours. President and Mrs. Southwick.
Relations of the vital and vocal organs; fundamental conditions of voice production;
technical voice training; breath control; tone projection; placing of tones;
compass, resonance flexibility, smoothness, purity, and brilliance of tone; eradication
of faults in the use of the voice; expressive voice culture, tone color and
form; sympathy, beauty; relation of the voice to imagination and emotion. Five
hours. First three weeks, June 21st to July 9th.
English 156. Reading in Grammar Schools. First Term.—2:30; L.
B. 1. Credit, with English 155, 2 hours. President and Mrs.
Southwick.
A practical course for practical teachers. Relation of reading to other studies;
method of getting good reading; articulation; enunciation; pronunciation; pitch, inflextion,
modulation, tone color, volume, force, and time; training of the imagination;
model work; the development lesson. Five hours. Last three weeks, July
12th to July 30th.
English 332. The New Poetry. First Term.—4:30; P. H. 5. Mr.
Wilson, Mr. Sledd.
A series of six lectures, one a week, on contemporary English and American
poets. Open to all members of the Summer School. No credit.
Topics—Mr. Wilson: 1. Certain Living English Poets of Conservatism. 2.
Some of the New Poets of England. 3. New Voices in America.
Mr. Sledd: 1. New Wine in Old Bottles. 2. Walt Whitman and the New
Poetry. 3. The Decadence of Sentiment in Present Day Poetry.
English 333. Jewish Literature and History. First Term.—12:15;
C. H. Auditorium.
English. The Literature of the New Testament.
See Biblical Literature 35.
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