University of Virginia record :: February, 1910 :: University of Virginia Library

French, Old French, Spanish, and Italian are taught in the
school. There are three courses in French, two courses in Spanish,
one course in Italian, and one course in Old French. The course in
Old French is technical and is intended to complement the doctorate
work done at this University in English and German Literature.

I. French.

For Undergraduates.

Course 1A: Beginners may take this course. Elementary grammar
is reviewed; the irregular verb is considered at length; intermediary
texts are read; stress is laid upon pronunciation; exercises in
dictation and in composition occupy one-third of the time throughout
the year Text-books: Fraser and Squair's Grammar; Mérimée,
Colomba; Pailleron, Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie; Daudet, Contes choisis;
Dumas, L'Evasion du Duc de Beaufort; Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct
Professor Dargan.

Course 2B: Course 1A prerequisite, or its equivalent.—The novel,
drama, and lyric of the Nineteenth Century are touched upon; the
subjunctive mood is studied; oral exercises are used; the history of
French Literature is examined. Books: Gasc's Dictionary; Fraser
and Squair's Grammar; Saintsbury's History of French Literature;
Dumas' Monte-Cristo; Tuckerman, Simplicité; About, Le roi des montagnes;
Racine, Athalie; Hugo, Hernani; Bowen, Modern French Lyrics;
Gautier's Jettatura. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda,
Professor Wilson.

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For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course 3C: Course 1A and 2B prerequisite.—Forty lectures are devoted
to the interpretation of Modern French prose; twenty lectures
to defining the tendencies of Modern French fiction; and forty lectures
to an appreciation of France's place in civilization. Books:
Nodier, Contes; Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris; Sand, Indiana; Pellissier,
Le mouvement littérarie du XIXe Siécle; Balzac, La cousine Bette;
Daudet, Sapho; Flaubert, Tentation de Saint Antoine; Bazin, La terre
qui meurt; Bourget, Le disciple; France, Silvestre Bonnard; Foncin, Le
Pays de France. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda,
Professor Wilson, Adjunct Professor Dargan.

II. Spanish.

For Undergraduates.

Course 1A: This is a beginner's course, offered to those students
who desire to undertake the study of the language, either from a
cultural or a practical stand-point. A survey of the main features of
the grammar together with composition and the reading of modern
texts constitute the course. Dictation and other oral exercises will
further the student's knowledge of colloquial Spanish. Text-books:
Hill's and Ford's Grammar, Carrión and Vital Aza, Zaragüeta; Valera
Pepita Jiménez, Alarcón, El Sombrero de tres Picos; Taboada, Cuentos
Alegres. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct
Professor Dargan.

Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—The study
of the drama and novel of modern Spain will be continued. Two
works of the classical age will be read, and the history of Spanish
Literature studied. An advanced grammar and a conversational
Method will be taken up. Composition and oral work will occupy
one-third of the time. Text-books: Ybarra, Practical Spanish Method;
Ramsey, Text-Book of Modern Spanish; Appleton's Dictionary; FitzMaurice
Kelly, History of Spanish Literature; Tamayo y Baus, Un drama
nuevo; Galdós, Dona Perfecta; Valdés, José; Pereda, Pedro Sánchez;
Calderón, El Mágico prodigioso; Cervantes, Don Quijote. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 12-1, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.

III. Italian.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course 3C: French 1A and 2B or Spanish 1A or 2B prerequisite.—
One course is offered, for which no previous knowledge of Italian is required.

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Students are advanced rapidly through an elementary grammar,
and then through a series of graded texts to the point where
Modern Italian is read with ease. Several of the more important
monuments of the Nineteenth Century are read and discussed, after
which the attention of the class is directed to Dante, Petrarch, and
Boccaccio. The history of Italian Literature is studied, and also that
of the Renaissance. Books: Grandgent's Grammar; Edgren's Dictionary;
Amicis, Alberto; Testa, L'oro e l'orpello; Goldoni, Un curioso
accidente; Capuana, Homo; Bowen, Italian Reader; d'Ancona e Bacci,
Manuale della letteratura italiana (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet,
Italian Literature; Symonds, Short History of the Renaissance in Italy;
Barrili, Una Notte Bizzarra. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1, S. W.
Rotunda, Professor Wilson.

IV. Old French.

Primarily for Graduates.

Course 4D: This course is intended to complement the doctorate
work done at this University in English Literature and at the same
time constitute a basis of advanced instruction for men aspiring to
Romance scholarship. The course is open to students who have completed
the French, Spanish, and Italian courses at this University, or
the equivalent elsewhere.

Lectures and class-work incident to the course are conducted in
French. Important monuments of Old French are translated into the
modern idiom, and the syntax and literary tendencies of different
periods are contrasted. Professor Wilson.