 | University of Virginia March, 1907 |  |
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.
Professor Dabney.
Mr. Wayland.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and an examination for classification in History,
covering the first three hundred and eighty-six pages of West's Ancient
History. The latter examination may be waived if the applicant (a) is
twenty years of age at the beginning of the academic year; or (b) has
already passed in at least two full courses in other subjects at this
University; or (c) can convince the Professor either by a certificate from
a reputable school or college, or otherwise, that his historical knowledge
and mental discipline are adequate. The following courses are offered:
Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1: General History.—In this course great stress is laid upon
the unity and continuity of History, although special attention is given
historical evolution.
Text-Books.—Capes' Age of the Antonines; Thatcher's and Schwill's
Europe in the Middle Age; Thatcher's and McNeal's Source Book for Mediæval
History; Myers's The Modern Age; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant Revolution;
Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Longman's Frederick the Great and
the Seven Years' War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution; Morris's
French Revolution and First Empire.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 2: English and American History: Course 1 prerequisite.
—In this higher course the principles taught in the course preceding will
be applied to a more special field; and, in order that the students may
be encouraged to exercise independent thought and judgment, they will
be required to write essays or make reports on particular topics.
Text-Books.—Oman's History of England; Lee's Source Book of English
History; Gardiner's Atlas of English History; Lecky's American Revolution
(edited by Woodburn); Walker's Making of the Nation; Burgess's Middle
Period; Powell's Nullification and Secession in the United States; Dodge's
Bird's-Eye View of our Civil War; Curry's Southern States of the American
Union; Hart's Epoch Maps Illustrating American History.
For Graduates Only.
Course 3: Courses 1 and 2 prerequisite, or their equivalent.—Intellectual,
Moral, Religious, and Social Development of Europe.—The course
will begin with a study of the principles of historical method based upon
the "Introduction to the Study of History" by Langlois and Seignobos; and
these principles will then be applied to the critical examination of a number
of works by such authors as Buckle, Lecky, Draper, Guizot, Andrew D.
White, Bryce, and others. Required, together with Courses 1 and 2, of
students selecting History as primary minor subject for the Ph. D. degree.
Offered for 1907-'08.
Course 4: Courses 1 and 2 prerequisite, or their equivalent.—History
of the Reconstruction of the Southern States. Required, together with
Courses 1, 2, and 3, of students selecting History as major subject for
the Ph. D. degree, or, together with Courses 1 and 2, of those selecting it
as primary minor. Not offered in 1907-'08.
| University of Virginia March, 1907 | |