University of Virginia Library

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 standpoint. A survey of the main features of the grammar,

together with composition and the reading of modern texts, constitutes 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, Dr. Bardin.

Course 2B: Course 1A prerequisite.—The relations of the United
States with the various Latin-American Republics being manifold, this
course has been so adapted as to bring to the fore the literature that has
grown up in the great continent to the South. The aim of the course will
be to make as wide a survey of the literary achievements of South America
as is possible, and at the same time to inculcate a sympathetic appreciation
and understanding of the life and manners of our nearest foreign neighbors
who speak an alien tongue.

As far as possible, one book from each of the great Republics will be
read (excluding Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken). This reading will
be supplemented by lectures upon the growth of the literature and civilization,
from the historical point of view, of each country considered.

Attention will be given constantly to conversational Spanish, and the
peculiarities of punctuation and spelling observed in South America;
and the various colloquial and idiomatic constructions that have grown up
there will be pointed out.

Text-books to be announced. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1, S. W.
Rotunda, Dr. Bardin.

Spanish 3C: Spanish 2B prerequisite.—This course is intended to
supplement and enlarge upon the work offered in course 2B. The literature
of some one or two Latin Republics will be chosen for topic, and as
exhaustive a study made as circumstances will permit. In addition,
lectures will be given upon the growth of civilization in the countries
studied, beginning with the primitive myths of the early inhabitants and
extending, in rapid survey, to our own times. In the first term of the
course, poetry will be reviewed; in the second term, prose; and in the
final term, the drama.

The subject chosen for 1910-11 was the literature of Cuba and Mexico.
Hours by appointment. Dr. Bardin.