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II. German.
B. A. COURSE.
The B. A. Course in German is, like the corresponding course in English,
designed to lay a broad foundation for the intelligent study of the
this purpose successfully an accurate knowledge of English grammar
and a few months' familiarity with the rudiments of German are
necessary as preliminary to entering the class. A carefully selected
series of text-books will gradually introduce the student to the pronunciation,
grammar, syntax, and translation of the language; exercises
once a week in German script will familiarize him with grammatical
analysis; and appropriate texts on the history and literature of
Germany will introduce him to these important sides of the study.
Parallel reading is required. Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Thomas's Practical German Grammar; Joynes's Introductory
German Reader; Grimm's Haus-Märchen; Von Klenze's or Buchheim's Deutsche
Gedichte; Deering's Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Hosmer's History of German Literature.
Dictionaries: Whitney's or Heath's.
Scientific German.
Students taking this course will study thoroughly Part I or Thomas's
Practical German Grammar and will read Gore's, Hodges's, Dippold's
or Brandt's Scientific German Reader.
A student successfully passing his examination on these four scientific
books, together with exercises, Hosmer's Literature and Thomas's
Grammar, would be doing about the equivalent of the literary B. A.
German course and would be recommended for the B. A. degree.
A lighter course (suggested above) would be valuable to Medical,
Biological, and general scientific students, but would lead to no degree.
Dictionary: Tolhausen's Technological (English, German and French definitions).
M. A. COURSE.
This course is a more specialized continuation of the B. A. course in
German on the same general lines, and is open to students who have
completed the B. A. or its equivalent. The historical study of German
is taken up; the masterpieces of German literature are systematically
studied in critical annotated texts; exercises oral and written continue
throughout the year; and the literature and life of Germany are studied
in some detail. Parallel reading is required. Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Whitney's Compendious Grammar; Behaghel's Historical Grammar;
Stein's German Exercises; Goethe's Meisterwerke (Bernhardt); Lessing,
Schiller, Heine (annotated editions); Wenckebach's Meisterwerke des Mittelalters;
Francke's or Scherer's History of German Literature.
Dictionary: Whitney's, Heath's, Adler's or Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger.
Note: The work in the B. A. and the M. A. courses is so conveniently divided
and distributed by the three-term system that the student gets over the ground
without hardship or difficulty.
PH. D. COURSE.
A student of German, having completed the B. A. and M. A. courses
as above outlined, is now prepared to enter upon studies more advanced
"major" and "cognate minor" to each other, either from the German
or from the English point of view. Conference with the Professor is
requested for the purpose of arranging the student's studies. If German
is elected, Gothic, systematically studied through Wright's Primer,
Bernhardt's Gotische Bibel and Skeat, is the foundation. Behaghel's
Hêliand (Saxon) may well follow this. A course in Old and Middle
High German, studied in the works and editions of Braune, Wright,
Sievers, Erdmann, and Henry, connects the Gothic and modern High
German, and gives ample philological as well as literary training to the
German specialist.
Frequent conference, stated examination, and original research form
essential parts of this course, which culminates in a dissertation on
some special linguistic or literary point connected with the study,
handed in before May 1 of the graduating year.
Ph. D. combinations suggested: German (major), English Language
(cognate minor), English Literature (second minor); English Language,
English Literature, German; English Literature, English Language,
German etc.
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