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ACADEMIC COURSES SUPPLEMENT
The following is a list of academic courses offered in the University
from which students may choose in meeting the academic group and elective
requirements for degrees in the Department of Education. Students attending
other institutions during their first two years should elect those courses
that correspond most closely to the ones they would take if attending the
University during the same period.
ENGLISH
English A1: Composition and English Literature.—1. Composition,
with weekly themes and parallel reading. 2 and 3. Survey of English literature,
with parallel reading and frequent themes. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours
for those who have not received credit for English A2.) Twenty
sections.
Associate Professors H. P. Johnson, Gordon and Davis, Assistant Professor
Shepperson, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Tilghman, Mr. MacLeod, Mr. Varner,
Mr. Lee, Mr. Gravely, and Mr. Bartlett.
English B1: American Poetry and Prose: English A1 prerequisite.—
1. Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. 2. American Essays and longer narratives
(Novel and Drama). 3. The American Short Story. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Gordon.
English B2: Drama and Biography: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1.
Shakespeare. Three tragedies studied in class and other plays assigned as parallel
reading. Written reports. 2. Shakespeare continued. Three comedies studied
in class and others read as parallel. 3. Biography in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Written reports. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Metcalf and Assistants.
English B3: Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century and Later:
English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1. Nineteenth-century poetry. 2. Prose from
Lamb to Stevenson. 3. Contemporary poets and novelists. Parallel reading
and frequent papers. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Wilson and Assistants.
English B4: The English Comic Tradition: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1.
Chaucer and medieval humor: The Canterbury Tales and other
literature from the middle ages. 2. Elizabethan literature. 3. Certain Restoration
and eighteenth-century comedies and novels. Lectures, collateral reading,
and the study of the texts. The literature of the medieval period will be read
in translation. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Hench.
English B5: Drama, Essay, and Eighteenth-Century Poetry: English
A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Several of the historical plays studied
in class and others assigned as parallel reading. Written reports. 2. The early
eighteenth-century essayists. 3. Pope and his successors. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor H. P. Johnson.
English B6: Composition: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—The course
affords the student an opportunity to practice writing under critical supervision.
Designed primarily for those having some interest and ability in writing, it does not
exclude those who desire to overcome their disabilities in expression. Weekly
themes vary from simple exposition and description to the finished essay and
short story. Considerable parallel reading, with the writing of reviews, is called
for throughout the year. Scope is left for individual preference in the choice of
reading and in the types of writing. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Two sections.
Associate Professor Davis, Assistant Professor Shepperson, and Mr.
MacLeod.
English B7: Three Eminent Victorians and Their Times, with side
Glances at Certain of Their Contemporaries. 1. Alfred Tennyson. 2. Matthew
Arnold. 3. A. C. Swinburne. Following a thorough consideration of these and
other Victorians, an attempt will be made to revalue their work in the light
of recent twentieth-century criticism of the Victorian Age. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English B8: Introduction to the English Language: English A1 or A2
prerequisite.—1. The Nature and Structure of Language, with special attention
to (a) Language and Writing, (b) Language and Thought, (c) the Changes
which affect Languages. 2. The early history of the English Language, with
special attention to relations between the various stages of the English Language
and cultural history, and to the development of sounds and grammar. 3. The
recent history of the English Language, with special attention to the differences
between colloquial and formal written English. Lectures, recitations, and discussions,
English with the aid of translations. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Hill.
The following courses are for graduates and advanced undergraduates.
English C1: The Novel: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The early English novel and its background.
2. The later nineteenth-century novel. 3. The contemporary English
novel.
Professor Wilson.
English C2: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any two B courses
in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The Elizabethan
drama (exclusive of Shakespeare). 2. Restoration and eighteenth-century
drama. 3. The modern British drama.
Associate Professor Gordon.
English C3: Literature and Thought in England, 1789-1832 (Romantic
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is
presumed, but is not prerequisite. English literature of the earlier nineteenth
century studied in relation to the history, literary biography, and thought of the
period. The course will link the fields of history and literature. (Not offered in
1933-34.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English C4: Literature and Thought in England, 1832-1900 (Victorian
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is presumed,
but is not prerequisite. English literature of the middle and later nineteenth
century studied in relation to the history, literary biography, and thought
of the period. The course will link the fields of history and literature.
Associate Professor Davis.
English C5: Chaucer: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—A study of Chaucer's writings and background.
(Not offered in 1933-34.)
Professor Hench.
English C6: Literary Composition: English B6 and one other B course
prerequisite. This course is open only to those of proved aptitude in Composition
who have obtained the consent of the professor in charge.—1. Essay writing
and book-reviewing. 2. The writing of sketches and short stories. 3. Dramatic
composition. Parallel reading in current periodical literature. By consent also,
this course may be taken two years in succession. Conferences.
Associate Professor Gordon.
English C7: Old English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. Old English prose. 2. Old English
poetry; Beowulf. 3. Beowulf.
Professor Hench.
English C8: Middle English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—Readings, in the original, in romances,
tales, religious works, satires, and other types of literature in England
in the Middle Ages, exclusive of Chaucer.
Professor Hench.
English C9: The Early English Novel: Any two B courses in the
Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The Eighteenth-Century
Novel with considerable parallel reading and frequent reports. The English
Novel is traced from earliest times through the eighteenth century.
Assistant Professor Shepperson.
English C10: The History of the English Language: English B8 and
one other B course prerequisite.—A reading knowledge of Old English is
desirable. 1. Old English: its development and dialects. 2. Middle English:
its developments and dialects. 3. Modern English: standard written English,
standard spoken English, dialects, recent developments and tendencies. Lectures,
reading of texts with interpretations of forms and constructions. Hours
by appointment.
Associate Professor Hill.
English C11: Middle English: Two B courses prerequisite.—English
writers in prose and verse from 1150 to the end of the fourteenth century. This
course is designed primarily to give a reading knowledge of Middle English by a
chronological study of some of the chief texts exclusive of Chaucer. (Not offered
in 1933-34.)
Associate Professor Hill.
BIBLICAL LITERATURE
Biblical Literature B1: The literature to the destruction of the kingdoms
of Israel and Judah with special reference to historic background and sources.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Forrest.
Biblical Literature B1: Repeat Section: Will begin with the second
term and continue through the third term for the benefit of students needing
to take up new courses in those terms. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 2 session-hours.)
Mr. W. K. Smith.
Biblical Literature B2: The literature from beginning of the Babylonian
exile to the close of the New Testament. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Forrest.
Biblical Literature C1: (Philosophy C11): Any two B courses in Biblical
Literature or Philosophy prerequisite.—An investigation of the Jewish and Hellenistic
elements entering into the theology of Christianity during the first two
centuries.
Professor Forrest.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Public Speaking B1: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—Writing and delivery
of speeches on topics of the day; extemporaneous and impromptu
speaking. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Four sections, each limited
to a minimum of 8 and maximum of 25.
Associate Professor Paul.
FINE ARTS
Art
History of Art B1: A general course in the history of Ancient Art
with especial emphasis on architecture, painting and sculpture. Three lectures
each week with assigned readings. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Hammarstrand.
History of Art B2: Not open to first-year students—A general course in
the history of Medieval Art. Three lectures each week with assigned readings.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Hammarstrand.
History of Art B3: Not open to first-year students—A general course in
the history of Art of the Renaissance carried to 1800, French Art carried to year
1900. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Hammarstrand.
Music
Music A1: Music Fundamentals and Elementary Harmony: Intensive
drill in the underlying rudiments of Music; solfegge; ear training; sight reading;
dictation. Progressive formation of scales; intervals and triads; inversions; principles
of chord connections. Melodic leadings and metrical material. No previous
musical knowledge necessary. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Fickenscher.
Music B1: Musical History and Appreciation: Not open to first-year
students.—The development of music from antiquity to the present time with
typical examples of each phase. Illustrations and analysis of works of the epoch
makers, treating of their style, influence and historic import. The development
of musical instruments and of the orchestra. Illustrated lectures. Collateral
reading. No previous musical knowledge required. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Music B2: Harmony: Students taking this course are required to have
had ear training and a preliminary knowledge of musical notation, intervals and
scale formation, or to take concurrently Music A1. Also to have or to acquire
sufficient piano technique to play simple chord successions. Harmonic relationships
and their tendencies, construction of chords, voice progressions, dissonances,
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Music B3: Counterpoint: Students taking this course are required to
have had ear training and a preliminary knowledge of musical notation, intervals,
and scale formation or to take concurrently Music A1. Counterpoint from the
First to the Fifth Species in two, three, and four parts; combined counterpoint.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Fickenscher.
Music B5: Composition: Music B2 and B3 prerequisite.—Advanced Harmony
and Counterpoint. Construction and drill in various rhythmic and melodic
forms. Their use in sections, phrases and periods. Construction of song and
dance forms; the study of these and larger forms, including the sonata form,
through the works of the masters. Application of contrapuntal devices in the
homophonic forms. Students will be given the opportunity to have works performed
by the Choral, Glee Club, Orchestra or Band. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Dramatic Art
Dramatic Art B1: Playwriting: Not open to first-year students. Other
students will be admitted only after a personal interview with Mr. Pratt. English
B2 or B4 or B5 prerequisite or must be taken concurrently.—The reading and
analysis of plays throughout the year. The dramatization of the short story and
the writing of original one-act plays. Emphasis will be placed on the present-day
life and historical traditions of Virginia. Students from other sections will be
expected to use the materials and background with which they are familiar. Plays
considered worthy of production will be staged by the Virginia Players. Monday
evenings, 7:30 to 10. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Dramatic Art B2: Play Production: The technique of acting and stage
directing. The essential arts involved in the producing of plays: scene design
and construction, costuming, lighting, etc. Lectures and practical work.
Each student will direct a one-act play and act in two others. This course
in the theory and practice of the theatre is designed for the training of students
participating in the work of the Virginia Players and for those who
plan to become directors of school and community drama work. Afternoon
hours to be arranged. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Mr. Boyle.
Dramatic Art B4: Advanced Play Production: Dramatic Art B2 prerequisite.—Students
who have had considerable experience in the theatre may
secure the consent of the instructor to take this course concurrently with Dramatic
Art B2.—Lectures, parallel reading and reports. Members of this class will be
assigned responsible positions on the various productions of the Virginia Players.
Afternoon hours to be arranged. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt and Mr. Boyle.
Dramatic Art B5: History of the Theatre: The changing conventions
of the theatre and their relation to the problems engaging the interest of
playwrights and audiences. The Greek theatre, the Renaissance, and the
modern intimate playhouse. The technique of the movies. Modern problems:
Realism, Symbolism, Expressionism, etc. The technique of playwriting
illustrated by private performances and readings from the plays of
Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen and others. Lectures and discussions. (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
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