 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
SCHOOL OF ROMANIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Wilson.
Dr. Bardin.
Mr. Cleveland.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
French, Old French, Spanish, and Italian are taught in the school.
There are three courses in French, three courses in Spanish, one course in
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. There are three sections;
students may take any one of the three. 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; Labiche et Martin,
Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon; Daudet, Contes choisis; Dumas,
L'Evasion du Duc de Beaufort; Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Section I: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Section II: Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Section III: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11, S. W. Rotunda, Mr. Cleveland.
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' MonteCristo;
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.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: Courses 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
littéraire 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.
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 standpoint. A survey of the main features of the grammar,
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.
III. Italian.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: French 1A and 2B or Spanish 1A and 2B prerequisite.—
One course is offered, for which no previous knowledge of Italian is required.
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
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; Barrili,
Una Notte Bizzarra; Testa, L'oro e l'orpello; Goldoni, Un curioso accidents;
Capuana, Homo; d'Ancona e Bacci, Manuale della letteratura italiana
(Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet, Italian Literature; Symonds, Short
History of the Renaissance in Italy. 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.
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