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 1926-27.
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 CI.
Offered in 1925-26.
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.
