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English sA1-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 sA1-I. (Section II) Grammatical Analysis and Composition.—
Second Term. 9:30; L.B. 2. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Johnson.
This course is designed primarily for those who are preparing to teach English
in the high school.
English sA1-II. Survey of English Literature.—First Term. 10:30; L.B.
2. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Gordon.
Chaucer to Dryden.
English sA1-III. Survey of English Literature.—Second Term. 10:30;
L.B. 2. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Johnson.
Dryden to Tennyson.
English sA2-II. Survey of American Literature.—First Term. 8:30; L.B.
1. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Gordon.
American Prose to 1870.
English sA2-III. Survey of American Literature.—Both Terms. 12:30; L.
B. 1. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Gaines.
First Term—American Literature since 1870; second term, American Prose since
1870.
English sB1-I. Shakespeare—Tragedies.—First Term. 11:30; C.L. 29.
Credit, one session hour. Mr. Clarke.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
The origin and development of Tragedy will be discussed, and Shakespeare's central
tragedies will be critically considered, with especial emphasis upon Hamlet.
English sB1-I. Shakespeare—Comedies.—Second Term. 10:30; L.B. 1.
Credit, one session hour. Mr. Gaines.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-I. The American Essay and Oration.—Second Term. 9:30;
M.L. 11. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Gaines.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-II. The American Novel.—First Term. 10:30; L.B. 1. Credit,
one session hour. Mr. Gaines.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-II. American Poetry—Verse Forms. —Second Term. 11:30;
L.B. 5. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Gordon.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-III. Modern English Fiction: Stevenson and Kipling.—
First Term. 11:30; L.B. 5. Credit, one session hour. Mr. Ramsay.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-III. The American Short Story.—Both Terms. 9:30; L.B. 3.
Credit, one session hour. First Term, Mr. Ramsay; Second Term,
Mr. Johnson.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-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 sB2-I. Tennyson.—First Term. 12:30; L.B. 3. Credit, one session
hour. Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-II. Browning.—Second Term. 12:30; L.B. 3. Credit, one
session hour. Mr. Sledd.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-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 sB3-II. Advanced Composition.—Second Term. 12:30; L.B. 2.
Credit, one session hour. Mr. Gordon.
One year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sC1-I. The Elizabethan Drama.—First Term. 11:30; G.H. 1. Fee
$5.00. Mr. Gaines.
Three years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
English sC1-II. Milton.—Second Term. 9:30; G.H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr.
Ramsay.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit
English sC1-II. Browning's Ring and the Book.—Second Term. 9:30; C.
H. 11. Fee $5.00. Mr. Clarke.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
A close critical study of Browning's epic, with reinforcing references and comparisons.
English sC1-III. Modern British Drama.—First Term. 9:30; C.H. 12.
Fee $5.00. Mr. Clarke.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
The chief characteristics of contemporary drama will be examined, and material
for class study and parallel reading will be provided from the plays of Hardy, Masefield,
Galsworthy, Shaw, Barrie, Pinero, the Irish Theatre, etc.
English sC1-III. English Romanticism in the Early Nineteenth Century
with especial reference to Shelley and Keats.—Second Term. 11:30;
C.L. 29. Fee $5.00. Mr. Clarke.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
A close consideration both of the major poems of Shelley and Keats and of the
more recent contributions to the critcisms of these two poets.
English sC1-III. The Contemporary English Novel.—Second Term. 8:30;
G.H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Ramsay.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
It is recommended that at least one novel be read in advance from each of the
following writers: Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, George Moore, H. G. Wells,
Arnold Bennett, and Joseph Conrad.
English sC2-I. Nineteenth Century Prose.—First Term. 11:30; G.H. Upstairs.
Fee $5.00. Mr. Hench.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
A survey of non-fiction prose, particularly essays and letters, in the principal
prose writers of the Nineteenth Century.
English sC2-II. Old English—Old English Grammar and Prose Reading.—
First Term. 10:30; G.H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr. Ramsay.
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 sC2-III. Short Story Writing.—Second Term. 11:30; Bact. Lab. 1.
Fee $5.00. Mr. Ramsay.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
This course is intended especially for students desiring to write for publication.
It is requested that a previously written story be submitted at the opening of the
course.
English sC3-II. Chaucer.—First Term. 12:30; G.H. 1. Fee $5.00. Mr.
Hench.
Three years of college English and an approved degree are prerequisite for credit.
The reading of Chaucer's principal works, a sketch of life in the fourteenth century,
and a survey of some types of mediaeval literature.
English S41. Survey of English Grammar.—Both Terms. 8:30; L.B. 5.
Credit, one session hour elective. Miss Andrews.
A comprehensive study of the indispensable features of present-day English grammar,
in which language is considered chiefly from the functional side, or service in
thinking and expression. Especial emphasis is given to sentence structure, analysis,
practical sentence improvement, educated usage, and punctuation.
Text: Buehler's Modern English Grammer. Revised Edition.
English S42. The Teaching of Composition.—Both Terms. 10:30 L.B. 3.
Credit, one session hour elective. Miss Andrews.
This course organizes language study upon a social basis as it immediately affects
the success of students as participants in and contributors to school life, the home
group, and community activities. 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.
English S43. The Teaching of Literature in the High School.—Both Terms.
11:30; L.B. 2. Credit, one session hour elective. 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 employs the group plan of reading, and this session provides full and
typical group-units of cycles for third and fourth years. It seeks a modern approach
to literature without losing the value of older standard literature.
English—New Testament Literature.—First Term. 12:30; C.H. 11.
See Biblical Literature sB2-I.
English—Old Testament Literature.—First Term. 11:30; C.H. 11.
See Biblical Literature sB2-II.
English—Old Testament and Post Biblical Jewish Literature.—Second
Term. 12:30; C.H. 11.
See Biblical Literature sB2-III.
English—Art of Expression and Dramatic Production.
See Dramatic Art.
College Entrance Courses:
English sC—Critical study of specimens of English Literature—third year
high school. Whole Quarter. 11:30; Bact. Lab. 3. Credit, one unit for
Quarter. Miss Marshall.
English sD—Critical study of specimens of English Literature—fourth
year high school. Whole Quarter. 12:30; C.H. 13. Credit, one unit
for Quarter. Miss Marshall.
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