 | The University of Virginia record February, 1909 |  |
SCHOOL OF TEUTONIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Harrison.
Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: In English;
the General Entrance Examination, and, in addition, Course 1A in English
Literature or its equivalent; in German; the General Entrance Examination.
The subjects taught in this School are: the history, grammar, and
etymology of the English language (including Old and Middle English),
and English literature from its beginning to the time of Shakespeare;
High German).
I. English.
Course 1B: Course 1A in English Literature prerequisite.—Course 1B
in English is designed to lay a broad foundation for the intelligent study
of the language on both the historical (philological) and the literary side.
The opportunity is seized from the beginning to interest the student in the
history and etymology of current English words and phrases, to point him
by a general course of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and Middle English to
the gradual evolution of Modern English as we have it now, and to furnish
him with ample material for the prosecution of further study and research.
A carefully graded series of texts and text-books will lead the student
from the language of Alfred through Chaucer and the Elizabethans to the
English of Victoria. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12—1, Cabell Hall:
Professor Harrison, Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 2C: Course 1B prerequisite.—This course is a more specialized
form of Course 1B on the same general lines; a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon
is essential to its profitable prosecution. The historical study of the
language is pursued in greater detail; the student's attention is concentrated
on the history and origins of English; lectures on the Poetry and Life of
the Anglo-Saxons are given; Fourteenth Century English receives detailed
attention, and selected works of the Elizabethan period will be examined
and studied critically.
The effort will constantly be made to make these courses in the English
Language run parallel on the linguistic side with the courses in
English Literature, so that the two may profitably be taken together.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1, Cabell Hall: Professor Harrison,
Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 3D, Course 4D: Course 2C prerequisite.—Courses 3D and
4D are open to students who desire to specialize in the subject of English.
and especially to those who select English as their major subject, or as the
primary minor subject for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. A general
statement only of their character can be given. English Literature of the
Old, Middle, and New English periods to the time of Shakespeare will be
exhaustively studied; English Philology, the foundations of which will
be laid in a thorough knowledge of Gothic, Old and Middle English, Old
and Middle High German, and Old French phonology and grammar, will
receive thorough treatment; general phonetics will be carefully studied;
and the principles of comparative grammar and syntax will be duly explained.
The completion of either of these two courses will satisfy the requirements
Philosophy; the completion of both courses and the preparation of a
satisfactory dissertation will fulfill the requirements for English as the
major subject for the same degree.
In each course three hours a week (hours by appointment) is given
to lectures. In addition, the student is required to prepare, at stated
intervals, written seminary-papers, showing original research, and to attend
such other lectures and courses, in this or any other Academic School of
the University, as the Academic Faculty, on recommendation of the professor,
may deem necessary. Courses 3D and 4D were not given in
1908-1909.
The professor's large and choice collection of Anglo-Saxon, English,
German, and French Philological works is open to the students in Courses
3D and 4D.
II. German.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
Course 1A: In this course the students begin with elementary grammar,
reading, and composition. About six hundred pages of German prose
are translated, and thirty pages of German in the form of weekly exercises
are written. One hour a week is given to conversation. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 1—2, Cabell Hall: Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Course 2B
in German is designed to give the student a general knowledge and understanding
of the German language, life, literature, and thought since 1730.
The course is arranged for the session of 1909-1910 as follows:
I. Grammar (Forms and Syntax), with oral and written translation
of about 25 pages of English sentences into German, illustrative
of the grammatical principles, and involving the repeated use of about 750
words and phrases of most frequent occurrence. Systematic study of
word-groups. (20 hours).
II. Deutschland in Wort und Bild, based on Schweitzer's
Deutsches Lesebuch für Quarta und Tertia. Class exercises conducted in
German. Conversation and written work in German based on text.
(30 hours).
III. German Lyric and Ballad Poetry since 1730. Lectures on
the German lyricists and balladists, with reading and interpretation of
selected poems of Berger, Goethe, Schiller, Rückert, Chamisso, Uhland,
Heine, and Freiligrath. Written work in German, based on poems read
modern German literature. (25 hours).
IV. Prose Fiction. Lectures on the history and development of
the Roman and the Novelle. Class-reading of a novel of Sudermann and
from Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit (Sesenheim). Written work in
German based on texts read. Parallel reading in Keller's Novellen and in
history of modern German literature. (15 hours).
V. Drama.—Lectures on Schiller, Sudermann, and Hauptmann,
with reading and interpretation of one drama of each. Written work in
German, based on assignments in dramas read by class. Parallel reading
in history of modern German literature. (10 hours).
The class meets in two sections: I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11;
II Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-2. Cabell Hall, Adjunct Professor
Faulkner.
Course 3C: Course 2B prerequisite.—This course is a more specialized
continuation of Course 2B in German, on the same general lines. The
historical study of German is taken up; the masterpieces of German literature
are systematically studied in critical annotated texts; exercises continue
throughout the year; and the literature and life of Germany are
studied in some detail. Parallel reading is required, and one hour a week
is given to conversation. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11; Professor
Harrison.
Course 4D: Course 3C prerequisite.—German Literature since 1730.
Three hours a week (by appointment). The work of this course is conducted
entirely in German. Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 4D, as given for the session of 1908-1909, was arranged as
follows:
Schillers Jugenddramen. (25 hours).
Schillers Aesthetische Schriften. (25 hours).
Schillers Reife Dramen. (25 hours).
Sudermann, Hauptmann und das neue Drama. (25 hours).
Course 5D, as offered for the session of 1909-1910, is arranged as
follows:
Goethes Gedichte in zeitlicher Reihenfolge. (25 hours).
Goethes Faust. (50 hours).
Goethes Wilhelm Meister. (25 hours).
Course 5D: Course 3C prerequisite.—Gothic, Old High German,
Middle High German. Three hours a week. Professor Harrison.
The completion of either Course 4D or Course 5D will satisfy the
of Philosophy; the completion of both courses, and the preparation of
a satisfactory dissertation will fulfill the requirements for German as the
major subject for the same degree.
In each of these courses three hours a week is given to lectures.
In addition the student is required to prepare, at stated intervals, written
seminary-papers showing original research, and to attend such other lectures
and courses, in this or any other Academic School of the University,
as the Academic Faculty, on recommendation of the professor, may deem
necessary. Course 5D was not given in 1908-1909.
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