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English sA1-I. Composition.—First Term. 9:30; L. B. 2. Credit,
one session-hour. Mr. Shepperson.
Equivalent to one term of English A-1 or A-2 or A-3. Narration will receive
special attention.
English sA1-I. (Section II) Grammatical Analysis and Composition.
—Second Term. 9:30; L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour. Mr.
Johnson.
This course is designed primarily for those who are preparing to teach English
in the high school.
English sA1-II. Survey of English Literature.—First Term. 10:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gordon.
Chaucer to Dryden.
English sA1-III. Survey of English Literature.—Second Term.
10:30; L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Johnson.
Dryden to Tennyson.
English sA2-II. Survey of American Literature.—First Term. 8:30;
L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Shepperson.
American Literature to 1870.
English sA2-III. Survey of American Literature.—Second Term.
11:30; L. B. 5. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gordon.
American Literature since 1870.
Any "A" courses which are not repetitions of courses previously taken, may be
substituted for any "A" courses of the regular session.
English sB1-I. Shakespeare—Tragedies.—First Term. 11:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Clarke.
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 sB1-I. Shakespeare—Comedies.—Second Term. 10:30; L.
B. 1. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Cox.
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 sB1-II. American Poetry—Verse Forms.—Second Term.
9:30; L. B. 5. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gordon.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-III. Modern English Fiction: Stevenson and Kipling.—
First Term. 10:30; P. H. 3. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Oliphant.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-III. The American Short Story.—Both Terms. First
Term, 9:30; L. B. 3. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gordon;
Second Term, 12:30; L. B. 1. Mr. Johnson.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-I. The Romantic Poets—Wordsworth, Byron, and Coleridge.—First
Term. 10:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-I. Tennyson.—First Term. 12:30; L. B. 3. Credit, one
session-hour. Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-II. Browning.—Second Term. 12:30; L. B. 3. Credit,
one session-hour. Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-II. The Romantic Poets—Shelley and Keats.—Second
Term. 9:30; L. B. 3. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-II. Advanced Composition.—Second Term. 12:20; L.
B. 2. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gordon.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
Any "B" courses which are not repetitions of courses previously taken, may be
substituted for any "B" courses of the regular session.
English sC1-I. The English Lyric throughout the Ages.—First Term.
8:30; G. H. 3 upstairs. Fee $5.00. Mr. Oliphant.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
English sC1-I. The Elizabethan Drama.—First Term. 11:30; G. H.
1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Gordon.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
English sC1-II. Shakespeare.—Second Term. 11:30; C. H. 12. Fee
$5.00. Mr. Oliphant.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
Particular attention will be paid to plays in which Shakespeare comes in contact
or competition with other dramatists.
English sC1-II. Elizabethan Drama: Beaumont and Fletcher.—
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.
A study of the principal dramatists who collaborated in the "Beaumont and
Fletcher" plays, the means of determining authorship receiving special attention.
This course will supplement English sC1-I, given in the first term.
English sC1-II. Browning's Ring and the Book.—First Term. 9:30;
P. H. B. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Clarke.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
A close critical study of Browning's epic, with reinforcing references and comparisons.
English sC1-III. Modern British Drama.—Second Term. 12:30; C. H.
12. Fee $5.00. Mr. Oliphant.
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 sC1-III. English Romanticism in the Early Nineteenth Century
with especial reference to Shelley and Keats.—First Term.
8:30; P. H. B. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Clarke.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
A close consideration both of the major poems of Shelley and Keats and of the
more recent contributions to the criticisms of these two poets.
English sC1-III. Nineteenth Century English Novel.—Second Term.
8:30; G. H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Cox.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
Concentration in class chiefly on Austin, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Meredith.
A course in emotional, intellectual and imaginative experiences.
English sC1-III. Modern European Drama.—First Term. 9:30; G.
H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Oliphant.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
Consideration of the chief prose plays of all European countries from the rise
of the realistic drama to the present day.
English sC2-II. Old English—Old English Grammar and Prose Reading.—First
Term. 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 sC2-III. Short Story Writing.—Second Term. 11:30; G. H.
1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Cox.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
An informal course for people who want to write short stories, and to benefit by
exacting criticism. It is requested that a previously written story be submitted at
the opening of the course.
English sC3-II. Chaucer.—First Term. 12:30; G. H. 2, upstairs.
Fee $5.00. Mr. Shannon.
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 mediaeval literature.
English s41. Survey of English Grammar.—Both Terms. 11:30; L.
B. 2. 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: Buehler's Modern English Grammar. Revised Edition.
English s42. The Teaching of Composition.—Both Terms. 10:30; L.
B. 3. 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. 8:30; 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 this session provides
full and typical group-units of cycles for third and fourth years. It seeks a modern
approach to literature without losing the value of older standard literature.
English—New Testament Literature.—First Term. 12:30; C. H. 11.
See Biblical Literature sB2-I.
English—Old Testament Literature.—First Term. 11:30; C. H. 11.
See Biblical Literature sB2-II.
English—Biblical History and Literature.—Second Term. 12:30; C.
H. 11.
See Biblical Literature sB2-III.
English—Art of Expression and Dramatic Production.
See Dramatic Art.
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