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Note.—Any A courses which are not repetitions of courses previously taken,
may be substituted for any A courses of the regular session.
Likewise, any B courses which are not repetitions of courses previously taken
may be substituted for any B courses of the regular session.
English sA1-I. Composition: Both Terms. 9:30; L. B. 2. Credit, one
session-hour.
First Term, Mr. Lawrence. Second Term, Mr. Ewing.
Equivalent to one term of English A1 or A2 or A3. Narration will receive special
attention.
English sA1-II. Survey of English Literature: First Term. 11:30; L. B.
2. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. MacLeod.
Chaucer to Dryden.
English sA1-III. Survey of English Literature: Second Term. 10:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Ewing.
Dryden to Tennyson.
English sA2-II. Survey of American Literature: First Term. 10:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. MacLeod.
American Literature to 1870.
English sA2-III. Survey of American Literature: Second Term. 8:30;
L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Lawrence.
American Literature since 1870.
English sB1-I. Recent Poetry, British and American: First Term. 11:30;
L. B. 3. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Ramsay.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
A study of representative poets and poetical movements in England and America
since 1890.
English sB1-II. The American Novel: First Term. 10:30; L. B. 3.
Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Harrison.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-III. The American Short Story: Both Terms. 9:30; L. B.
1. Credit, one session-hour.
First Term, Mr. Ramsay. Second Term, Mr. Gordon.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-I. Shakespeare—Tragedies: First Term. 8:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Harrison.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
The origin and development of Tragedy will be discussed, and Shakespeare's central
tragedies will be critically considered, with especial emphasis upon Hamlet.
English sB2-II. Shakespeare—Comedies: Second Term. 10:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Hench.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
Reading Shakespeare's comedies for the sake of mental play, and a new awareness of
the possibilities of language.
English sB2-III. The European Short Story: Second Term. 11:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Oliphant.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-I. The Romantic Poets—Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge:
First Term. 11:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-II. Tennyson: First Term. 12:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one
session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-II. Browning: Second Term. 12:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one
session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-III. The Romantic Poets—Shelley and Keats: Second Term.
11:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB6-II. Advanced Composition: First Term. 12:30; L. B. 2.
Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Lawrence.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB6-III. Advanced Composition: Second Term. 8:30; L. B. 3.
Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Gordon.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sC1-I. The Contemporary English Novel: First Term. 8:30;
G. H. 1. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
It is recommended that at least one novel be read in advance from each of the following
writers: Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, George Moore, H. S. Wells, Arnold Bennett,
and Joseph Conrad.
English sC1-II. Shakespeare: Second Term. 10:30; G. H. 1. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Oliphant.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The relationship of the dramatist to his period, and the influence upon his work of
contemporary literary and social conventions; a study of typical comedies, histories, and
tragedies, with some introduction to problems of Shakespearean scholarship. The course
will be conducted mainly by the seminar method.
English sC1-III. The Elizabethan Drama: First Term. 9:30; G. H. 3.
Fee $5.00.
Mr. Gordon.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The development of the Tudor and Stuart drama from 1558 to 1642; racial, social, and
types; classical and contemporary foreign influences; literary relationships of the dramatists;
reading and analyses of typical plays. The course will be conducted mainly by the
seminar method.
English sC2-I. The Rise of the Drama: Second Term. 8:30; G. H. 1.
Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The rebirth of modern drama in the services of the medieval Church, and its development
in the English miracle plays, moralities, and interludes.
English sC2-II. The Nineteenth Century Drama: Second Term. 9:30;
G. H. 1. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
English drama before 1890, with some contemporary dramatic movements on the Continent
which influenced its course.
English sC2-III. Modern British Drama: First Term. 12:30; G. H. 1.
Fee $5.00.
Mr. Gordon.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite
for credit.
The chief characteristics of the drama of the past thirty-five years will be examined,
and material for class study will be provided from the plays of Galsworthy, Shaw, Barrie,
Pinero, the Irish Theatre, etc.
English sC3-I. Nineteenth Century Prose: First Term. 10:30; G. H. 1.
Fee $5.00.
Mr. Hench.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
A survey of non-fiction prose, particularly essays and letters, in the principal prose
writers of the Nineteenth Century.
English sC4-I. The English Lyric throughout the Ages: Second Term.
9:30; G. H. 3. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Oliphant.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
English sC4-II. Milton: Second Term. 12:30; G. H. 1. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
Milton as man, poet, and thinker, in the light of recent investigation.
English sC5-I. Chaucer: First Term. 11:30; G. H. 2, upstairs. Fee
$5.00.
Mr. Hench.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite
for credit.
The reading of Chaucer's principal works, a sketch of life in the fourteenth century,
and a survey of some types of medieval literature.
English sC7-I. Old English—Old English Grammar and Prose Reading:
First Term. 8:30 to 10:30; G. H. 2, upstairs. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Shannon.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
This course will not be given for fewer than six students.
English s41. Survey of English Grammar: Both Terms. 11:30; L. B. 5.
Credit, one session-hour elective.
Miss Andrews.
A comprehensive study of the indispensable features of present-day English grammar,
in which language is considered chiefly from the functional side, or service in thinking
and expression. Especial emphasis is given to sentence structure, analysis, practical sentence
improvement, educated usage, and punctuation.
Text: Buhler's Modern English Grammar. Revised Edition.
English s42. The Teaching of Composition: Both Terms. 8:30; L. B. 5.
Credit, one session-hour elective.
Miss Andrews.
This course organizes language study upon a social basis as it immediately affects the
success of students as participants in and contributors to school life, the home group, and
community activities. Foundation problems growing out of the need of good English for
life uses furnish incentives and materials for expression and appeal to both group spirit
and individual striving for skill in language.
English s43. The Teaching of Literature in the High School: Both
Terms. 10:30; L. B. 5. Credit, one session-hour elective.
Miss Andrews.
This course makes each selection studied a concrete and suggestive example, through
demonstration of desirable subject matter and class procedure in high school literature. It
employs the group plan of reading and seeks a modern approach to literature without losing
the value of older standard literature.
The work will include selection of literature best adapted to High School Librarians,
with a comprehensive discussion of publishers, the checking of book lists and the best
methods of ordering.
See Library Science s82.
The Teaching of High School English: Both Terms. See Education
sB10-I (a).
For courses in New and Old Testament Literature and Biblical History and Literature,
see page 39.
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