SCHOOL OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES.
German A1: For students offering less than three units of German for
entrance. Elementary grammar, composition, dictation, reading and conversation.—(B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those who have offered
less than three units of German for entrance.) Five hours a week. Professor
Faulkner.
German B1: German A1 or three entrance units of German prerequisite.—
Reading of about eight hundred pages of modern German prose, illustrative
of German life and thought since 1870-71, with dictation, and composition
work in free reproduction.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor
Faulkner.
German B2: German B1 prerequisite.—First term: German lyric and
ballad poetry, with reading in class of ballads and lyrics of Goethe, Schiller,
and Heine, and assigned parallel reading in other poets. Second term:
Goethe's Faust, Part I. Third term: Goethe's Faust, Part II.—History of
German literature, once a week, throughout the session. Parallel reading in
second and third terms, of selected dramas of Schiller, Lessing and Goethe.
Dictation and composition once a week.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Faulkner.
German C1: German B1 and B2 prerequisite.—The History and Development
of the German Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Pro-seminar, with
directed research study of selected novels of Goethe, Gottfried Keller, Sudermann,
Frennsen, and Thomas Mann. Professor Faulkner. Given in alternate
years with German C2. Offered in 1923-24.
German C2: German B1 and B2 prerequisite.—First term (conducted in
English): Historical grammar, with selected readings in specimens of early
New High German prose and poetry. Second and third terms. Goethe's
Jugend: Gedichte bis 1775; Dichtung und Wahrheit. Weekly seminar:
Goethe's Faust, I. und II. Teil. Professor Faulkner. Given in alternate
years with German C1. Offered in 1922-23.
The following courses are open only to candidates for a doctor's degree
in one of the Schools of English, English Literature, Latin, Greek, Romanic
or Germanic Languages, who have already completed not less than one
year of graduate work as candidates for that degree. Only one course will
be given in any one session. German C1 or C2 prerequisite. Three hours a
week, by appointment. Professor Faulkner.
German D1.—Gothic and Old High German.
German D2.—Middle High German, with readings in the Nibelungenlied.
German D3.—Middle High German, with readings in Walther von der
Vogelweide.
