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This course is designed primarily for those who are preparing to teach English
in the high school. It will also be counted as equivalent to the first term of English
A1.

English 24. I. Advanced Composition.—First Term. 12:30; L. B. 2.
Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Hench.

Equivalent to first term of English B-3. One year of college English prerequisite.

English 24. II. Advanced Composition.—Second Term. 12:30; L. B.
2. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Hench.

Equivalent to second term of English B-3. One year of college English prerequisite.

English 25. I. Composition.—First Term. 9:30; L. B. 2. Credit, one
session-hour. Mr. Gordon.

Equivalent to one term of English A-1 or A-2 or A-3. Narration will receive special
attention.

English 25. II. Survey of English Literature.—First Term. 10:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gordon.

Equivalent to second term of English A.

Chaucer to Dryden.

English 25. III. Survey of English Literature.—Second Term.
10:30; L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Johnson.

Equivalent to third term of English A.

Dryden to Tennyson.

English 28. II. Survey of American Literature.—First Term. 8:30;
L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gordon.

Equivalent to second term of English A2.

American Poetry.

English 28. III. Survey of American Literature.—Both Terms. 12:30;
L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour. First Term, Mr. Gaines; Second
Term, Mr. Johnson.

Equivalent to third term of English A2.

First term—American Literature since 1870; second term, American Prose.

English 28 (c). The Contemporary English Novel.—First Term.
12:30; G. H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Wilson.

Equivalent to third term of English C1. Three years of college English prerequisite;
for graduate credit, an approved degree is prerequisite.

English 29. I. Shakespeare.—Comedies. Second Term. 10:30; L.
B. 1; Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gaines.

Equivalent to one term of English Literature B-1. One year of college English
prerequisite for credit.

English 29. III. Modern English Fiction: Hardy, Stevenson, and
Kipling.—First Term. 11:30; L. B. 5. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Wilson.

Equivalent to third term of English Literature B-1. One year of college English
prerequisite for credit.

English 30 (c). The Elizabethan Drama.—First Term. 9:30; G. H.
1; Fee $5.00. Mr. Gaines.

Equivalent to first term of English Literature C-1. Three years of college English
prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree is prerequisite.

English 31. I. Tennyson.—First Term. 12:30; L. B. 3. Credit, one
session-hour. Mr. Sledd.

Equivalent to first term of English Literature B2. One year of college English
prerequisite for credit.

English 31. II. Browning.—Second Term. 12:30; L. B. 3. Credit,
one session-hour. Mr. Sledd.

Equivalent to second term of English Literature B2. One year of college English
prerequisite for credit.

English 32. I. The American Novel.—First Term. 10:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Gaines.

Equivalent to one term of English B-1. One year of college English prerequisite
for credit.

English 32. III. The American Short Story.—Both Terms. 9:30;
L. B. 3. Credit, one session-hour. First Term, Mr. Wilson; Second
Term, Mr. Gaines.

Equivalent to third term of English B-1. One year of college English prerequisite
for credit.

English 35 (c). I. Old English—Old English Grammar and Prose
Reading.—First Term. 2:30; G. H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Shannon.

Equivalent to the first term of English C2. Three years of college English are
prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree is prerequisite.

This course will not be given for fewer than six students.

English 36. I. The Romantic Poets—Wordsworth, Byron, and Coleridge.—First
Term. 11:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.

One year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English 36. II. The Romantic Poets—Shelley and Keats.—Second
Term. 11:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour. Mr. Sledd.

One year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English 37 (c). I. Literary Composition—The Study and Writing of
the Essay.—First Term. 11:30; G. H. Upstairs. Fee $5.00. Mr.
Hench.

Equivalent to one term of English Literature C-2. Three years of college English,
proved aptitude in writing, and the consent of the instructor are prerequisite
for entrance; for graduate credit, an approved degree is prerequisite. No particular
text.

English 37 (c). II. Literary Composition—The Study and Writing
of the Short Story.—Second Term. 11:30; G. H. Upstairs. Fee
$5.00. Mr. Hench.

Equivalent to second term of English Literature C-2. Three years of college
English, proved aptitude in writing, and the consent of the instructor are prerequisite
for entrance; for graduate credit, an approved degree is prerequisite.

English 38 (c). II. Shakespeare.—Both Terms. First Term. 8:30;
G. H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Shannon. Second Term. 11:30; G.
H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Gaines.

Equivalent to one term of English Literature C-1. Three years of college English
are prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree is prerequisite.

English 39 (c). The English Drama from Dryden to Goldsmith.
—Both Terms. 10:30; G. H. Upstairs. Fee $5.00. Mr. Hench.

Equivalent to one term of a C-course.

A study of the types of drama during the Restoration period and the Eighteenth
Century. Three years of college English are prerequisite; for graduate credit, an
approved degree is prerequisite.

English 41. Methods in Language and Grammar.—First Term.
3:30; L. B. 1. Credit, one session-hour elective in Education.
Miss Andrews.

A comprehensive survey of the indispensable features of English grammar, in
which language is considered chiefly from its functional side, or service in thinking
and expression. It places special emphasis upon sentence structure, analysis, practical
sentence improvements, and educated usage. Typical professional topics: Misconceptions
concerning the nature and purpose of grammar; its origin in the character
of our thinking; its relation to composition and literature; grammar as a
changing record of usage rather than unchanging law of usage; governing principles
in the teaching of grammar.

Texts: Modern English, Book II, Emerson and Bender.

English 42. The Teaching of Composition.—Both Terms. 10:30;
L. B. 3. Credit, one session-hour elective in Education. Miss
Andrews.

This course organizes language study upon a social basis as it immediately affects
the success of children as participants in and contributors to school life, the home
circle, community activities, and the welfare of one's country. Foundation problems
growing out of the need of good English for life uses furnish incentives and
materials for expression and appeal to both group spirit and individual striving
for skill in language. Typical professional topics: Definite and reasonable aims in
composition; coöperation of other departments in securing correct usage; scales of
measurement in composition; proper training and conditions of work for teachers
of composition.

English 43. The Teaching of Literature in the High School.—Both
Terms. 11:30; L. B. 2. Credit, one session-hour English A1.
Miss Andrews.

This course makes each selection studied a concrete and suggestive example, through
demonstration of desirable subject matter and class procedure in high school literature.
It aims to be equally suggestive to teachers of the junior high school. It employs
the group-plan of reading, and provides full and typical group-units or cycles
for lower and upper years. It seeks a modern approach to high school literature
without losing the value of older and standard literature.

English — New Testament Literature.—First Term. 12:30; C. H.
11.

See Biblical Literature 35.

English — Old Testament Literature.—First Term. 11:30; C.
H. 11.

See Biblical Literature 36.

English — Old Testament and Post Biblical Literature.—Second
Term. 12:30; C. H. 11.

See Biblical Literature 37.

English 44. I. Art of Expression; Reading and Speaking.—Both Terms.
9:30; L. B. 11. (A general Course in the Fundamental Principles
of Reading and Speaking.) Credit, one session-hour. Fee $5.00.
First Term, Mr. Gunnison; Second Term, Miss Whittington.

This course is designed for students who are not specializing in Expression, but
who desire training in the right use of the voice and body in public reading and
speaking. Text-book.—Curry's Foundations of Expression.

English 44. II. Art of Expression (Continued).—Second Term. 11:30;
L. B. Auditorium. Credit, one session-hour. Fee $5.00. Miss
Whittington.

English 45. Advanced Course in Art of Expression.—First Term.
10:30; L. B. 11. Credit, one session-hour. Fee $5.00. Mr. Gunnison.

English 46. Fundamentals of Public Speaking.—Both Terms. 10:30;

C. H. Auditorium. Credit, one session-hour. Fee $5.00. Miss
Whittington.

This course offers the principles and practice of effective Public Speaking. Particular
attention will be devoted to the development of the logical processes in speaking.
Beginning with the simplest forms of extempore' speaking, this work deals with
the form and delivery of the parts of an organized speech, introduction, argument,
and conclusion. Systematic discussions centering about intensive study of current
economic, social and political problems.

English 47. Public Speaking.—(Special Course for Club Women.)—
First Term. 11:30; C. H. Auditorium. Credit, one session-hour.
Fee $5.00. Miss Whittington.

The work offered in this course is similar to English 46. Special attention will be
given to the individual needs of each student—Voice Training, Poise, Ease in presiding,
work in Parliamentary procedure.

Note.—Students taking English 46 or English 47 are advised to take English 44
as a parallel course.

English 48. Dramatic Production.—First Term. 3:30; C. H. Auditorium.
Credit, one session-hour. Fee $5.00. Miss Whittington.

This course offers the fundamentals in Acting, staging and presentation of plays.
Discussion of the educational and social values of dramatic work in schools, colleges
and communities. It is to be hoped that the students enrolled in this course will be
interested in preparing several plays for public performance. Plays studied will be
modern one-act plays.

College Entrance Courses:

English C—Critical study of specimens of English Literature—third
year high school. First Term. 11:30; P. H. 2. Credit, one unit.
Miss Marshall.

English D—Critical study of specimens of English Literature—fourth
year high school. First Term. 12:30; P. H. 4. Credit, one unit.
Miss Marshall.