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SCHOOL OF ROMANIC LANGUAGES

I. French

French A1: For students offering less than 3 units of French for entrance.—
Five hours a week throughout the year. Five sections of 40 students each. On
Mondays and Fridays, the five sections are combined and meet as two groups.
This course comprises dictation, pronunciation, conversation, composition, and a
thorough study of the French verb. French is spoken in the classroom during
the latter part of the session. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those
who have offered less than 3 units of French for entrance.)

Professors Graham and Abbot, Dr. Garlick and Mr. Lee.

French B1: French A1 or 3 entrance-units of French prerequisite.—On
Mondays and Fridays, sections one, two, three and four meet separately. On
Wednesdays, there are three sections. In this course the roman d'aventure is
studied—Verne, Dumas, About, etc. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Abbot, Associate Professor Mellor and Dr. Garlick.

French B2: French B1 prerequisite.—In this course the study of French
literature as such is begun. The more important phases of literary expression
are investigated. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professors Graham and Abbot and Mr. Lee.

II. Spanish

Spanish A1: For students offering less than 3 units of Spanish for entrance.—Five
hours a week throughout the year. Six sections of 40 students
each. On Mondays and Fridays, the six sections are combined and meet together
as one group. This course comprises dictation, pronunciation, conversation, composition
and a thorough study of the verb. Spanish is spoken in the classroom
during the latter part of the session. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for
those who have offered less than 3 units of Spanish for entrance.)

Assistant Professor Woody, Dr. Galban and Mr. Warren.

Spanish B1: Spanish A1 or 3 entrance-units of Spanish prerequisite.—Two
sections meeting separately. Each section three hours per week. The work of
this course consists of a detailed study of Spanish grammar, dictation, reading
of advanced texts, correspondence and composition. During the latter part of
the session this course will be conducted mainly in Spanish. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Woody and Dr. Galban.

Spanish B2: Spanish B1 prerequisite.—Advanced grammar and syntax,
theme writing and study of literary forms. As far as practicable, the work of
this course is conducted in Spanish. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Bardin.

III. Italian

Italian A1: For students offering less than 3 units of Italian for entrance.—
Five hours a week throughout the year. Three sections of 40 students each.

On Mondays and Fridays, the three sections are combined and meet as one group.
This course comprises dictation, pronunciation, conversation, composition and
a thorough study of the verb. Italian is spoken in the classroom during the
latter part of the session. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those who
have offered less than 3 units of Italian for entrance.)

Associate Professor Rinetti, Dr. Garlick and Mr. Marchese.

Italian B1: Italian A1 or 3 entrance units of Italian prerequisite.—Three
hours a week throughout the year. This course comprises a detailed study of
grammar, dictation, reading of advanced texts, and composition. During the
latter part of the session the course will be conducted mainly in Italian. (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Associate Professor Rinetti.

Italian B2: Italian B1 prerequisite.—Advanced grammar and syntax, theme
writing and study of literary forms. As far as practicable, the work of this
course is conducted in Italian. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Associate Professor Rinetti.

GRADUATE ROMANCE

Graduate instruction in Romanic Languages is given by Professor Richard
H. Wilson, Professor Bardin, Professor Graham, Professor Abbot, Associate
Professor Mellor, Associate Professor Rinetti, Assistant Professor Woody, Dr.
Galbán, Dr. Garlick and Mr. Lee.

I. General Investigation

Groups meet two hours a week throughout the year. One to twenty students.
Lectures, translation, discussion, reports, examinations—in the English language.

1. Method. Theses and dissertations: Choice of subject, bibliography,
scope of investigation, collection of material, shaping, preparation for printer.
Three groups:

• a. French Group. Wilson. (D1, D6)

• b. Spanish Group. Bardin. (D2)

• c. Italian Group. Rinetti. (D12)

2. Language and Literature: From Latin to Romance. The historical
development of French, Spanish, Italian, and Provençal. Reading and translation
of Old French, Old Spanish, Old Italian, and Old Provençal. The
rise of Portuguese. Portuguese compared to Spanish. The mythology and
geography of Camoens. Reading and translation of the Lusiads. Five
groups:

• a. Old French phonology, morphology, literature. Mellor. (D7)

• b. Old Spanish phonology, morphology, literature. Mellor. (D8)

• c. Old Italian phonology, morphology, literature. Mellor. (D9)

• d. Old Provençal phonology, morphology, literature. Mellor. (D10)

• e. Camoens and the rise of Portuguese. Bardin. (D5)

3. History: Romanic elements of American Colonial History. French,
Spanish and Italian influences. One group, at present occupied with Virginia.

The Romanic Heritage of Virginia. Garlick. (D11)

II. Specific Investigation

Groups meet one hour a week throughout the year. One to ten students. Lectures,
translation, discussion, reports, examinations—in the French language, or
the Spanish language, or the Italian language, according to the subject involved.

1. Wilson. French. Lecturer and Group investigate the general
tendencies of French thought (as influenced by Pascal), French elements in
early American ideology (as advanced by Rousseau), the French novel (as
built by Balzac), the French prose epic (as exploited by Hugo), and French
temperament (as portrayed by Alphonse Daudet). Five groups:

• a. The Attitude of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Emile). (C1)

• b. Alphonse Daudet (5 to 25 volumes, according to size of group). (C6)

• c. Balzac's Work (5 to 25 volumes, according to size of group). (C9)

• d. Victor Hugo as a novelist (Notre Dame de Paris, les Misérables,
  les Travailleurs de la Mer). (C11)

• e. The Bearings of Pascal (Pensées). (C17)

2. Bardin. Spanish. Lecturer and Group investigate the forms and
ideology of the theatre of the Golden Age (as represented by Lope de Vega).
the Renaissance spirit (of Cervantes), the contra-reforma attitude (of Tirso
de Molina), the poetical application of Neo-Platonism (in Calderón), conservative
modern social criticism (as set forth in Pereda), liberal social
criticism (in Galdós), and radical social criticism (advanced by Baroja).
Seven groups:

• a. Lope de Vega (10 plays). (C2)

• b. Tirso de Molina and the Don Juan legend (8 plays and comparative
  literature of Don Juan). (C5)

• c. Calderón de la Barca and his tendency toward mysticism (10 plays).
  (C10)

• d. The novels of Benito Pérez Galdós (6 novels). (C16)

• e. The novels of José María de Pereda (6 novels). (C12)

• f. The novels of Pío Baroja (9 to 27 novels, according to size of group).
  (C19)

• g. Cervantes (Quijote, Novelas Ejemplares, and portions of the Theatre,
  the Galatea, and Persiles and Segismunda). (D3)

3. Graham. French. Lecturer and Group investigate the form, material,
treatment, and psychological atmosphere of the short story (as established
by Maupassant). One group:

Maupassant and the short story (5 to 15 volumes, according to size of
group). (C3)

4. Abbot. French. Lecturer and Group study Rabelais as a humanist,
Corneille and Racine as exemplars of classicism, and Molière as the embodiment
of French common sense. Three groups:

• a. Molière (20 plays). (C4)

• b. Corneille and Racine (16 plays). (C23)

• c. Rabelais (first two books). (D4)

5. Mellor. French. Lecturer and Group investigate problems in the
origin of classicism as presented by minor writers, the Pléiade, and Montaigne.
One group:

Montaigne, the Pléiade, and minor writers of the Sixteenth Century.
(C13)

6. Rinetti. Italian. Lecturer and Group investigate the salient tendencies
of the Italian Renaissance, Petrarch in his relations to Humanism, and
Dante in his general relation to medieval thought. Three groups:

• a. The Italian Renaissance. (C22)

• b. Petrarch (il Canzoniere.) (C20)

• c. Dante (la Divina Commedia). (C21)

7. Woody. Spanish. Lecturer and Group investigate the social forces
of modern Spain, as set forth in the theatre of Benavente, Martinez Sierra,
Linares Rivas, Marquina, and the Quintero brothers. One group:

Contemporary Spanish Theatre (30 plays). (C14)

8. Galbán. Spanish. Lecturer and Group investigate the national characteristics
of the Spanish short story (from Juan Manuel to the present day),
the españolismo of Spain's literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,
and the social psychology of contemporary Spanish-American literature
(as exhibited by Rubén Dario, Amado Nervo, and Manuel Ugarte).
Three groups:

• a. The Spanish Short Story (45 stories). (C15)

• b. Contemporary Spanish-American Literature (15 volumes). (C18)

• c. Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Spain (15
  authors). (C8)

9. Lee. French. Lecturer and Group investigate Symbolism and
Baudelaire's influence, the rôles of Verlaine, Mallarme, and Rimbaud. One
group:

Baudelaire and the Symbolists. (C7)

GROUP COURSES IN GRADUATE ROMANCE

                                                                     

C1	Wilson,	Rousseau.
C2	Bardin,	Lope.
C3	Graham,	Maupassant.
C4	Abbot,	Molière.
C5	Bardin,	Tirso.
C6	Wilson,	Daudet.
C7	Lee,	Baudelaire.
C8	Galban,	XVIII and XIX Centuries in Spain.
C9	Wilson,	Balzac.
C10	Bardin,	Calderón.
C11	Wilson,	Hugo.
C12	Bardin,	Pereda.
C13	Mellor,	XVI Century in France.
C14	Woody,	Contemporary Spanish Theatre.
C15	Galban,	Spanish Short Story.
C16	Bardin,	Galdós.
C17	Wilson,	Pascal.
C18	Galban,	Contemporary Spanish-American Literature.
C19	Bardin,	Baroja.
C20	Rinetti,	Petrarch.
C21	Rinetti,	Dante.
C22	Rinetti,	The Italian Renaissance.
C23	Abbot,	Corneille and Racine.
D1	Wilson,	Theses.
D2	Bardin,	Theses and Dissertations.
D3	Bardin,	Cervantes.
D4	Abbot,	Rabelais.
D5	Bardin,	Camoens.
D6	Wilson,	Dissertations.
D7	Mellor,	Old French.
D8	Mellor,	Old Spanish.
D9	Mellor,	Old Italian.
D10	Mellor,	Old Provençal.
D11	Garlick,	The Romanic Heritage of Virginia.
D12	Rinetti,	Theses and Dissertations.

Time Schedule

                                                           

	9:30 to 10:30	10:30 to 11:30	11:30 to 12:30	12:30 to 1:30
Monday	Romance C3 (Maupassant)—	Romance C13 (French XVI Century)—	Romance D3 (Cervantes)—	Romance C4 (Molière)—
	Graham	Mellor	Bardin	Abbot
	Romance D7 (Old French)—	Romance C2 (Lope de Vega)—		Romance C23 (Corneille and Racine)—
	Mellor	Bardin		Abbot. (Given in alternate years with C4.)
Tuesday	Romance C1 (Rousseau)—	Romance D1 (Theses)—	Romance D6 (Dissertations)—	Romance C14 (Contemporary Spanish Theater)—
	Wilson	Wilson	Wilson
	Romance C12 (Pereda)—	Romance D2 (Theses and Dissertations)—		Woody
	Bardin	Bardin		Romance D4 (Rabelais)—
	Romance D9 (Old Italian)—	Romance D8 (Old Spanish)—		Abbot
	Mellor	Mellor
	Romance D10 (Old Provençal)—
	Mellor. (Given in alternate years with D9.)
Wednesday	Romance D7 (Old French)—	Romance C5 (Tirso de Molina)—	Romance C15 (The Spanish Short Story)—	Romance C19 (Baroja)—
	Mellor	Bardin		Bardin
			Galbán	Romance C21 (Dante)—
				Rinetti
Thursday	Romance C6 (Daudet)—	Romance C20 (Petrarch)—	Romance C11 (Hugo)—	ROMANIA
	Wilson	Rinetti	Wilson
	Romance C16 (Galdós)—	Romance D8 (Old Spanish)—		Entire Romanic Faculty and all Graduate Students
	Bardin	Mellor
Friday	Romance D9 (Old Italian)—	Romance C10 (Calderón)—	Romance C8 (Spanish Lit. of the XVIII and XIX Centuries)—	The Ormond G. Smith French Room open to public
	Mellor	Bardin	Galbán
	Romance D10 (Old Provençal)—	Romance D11 (Romanic Heritage of Virginia)—	Romance D5 (Camoens)—
	Mellor. (Given in alternate years with D9).)	Garlick	Bardin
	Romance C7 (Baudelaire and the Symbolists)—Lee
Saturday	Romance C9 (Balzac)—	Romance C22 (The Italian Renaissance)—	Romance C17 (Pascal)—	The William A. Lambeth Italian Room open to public
	Wilson	Rinetti	Wilson
	Romance C18 (Contemporary Spanish-American Lit.)—		Romance D12 (Theses and Dissertations)—
	Galbán		Rinetti

The Master's Degree.—A varying number of Romance group courses,
ranging from six to ten hours a week throughout the year, a final oral
examination, and a thesis are prescribed for the master's degree. A candidate
of average ability and good training may absolve the requisite number of
courses within one year after the baccalaureate degree. The final oral
examination, however, embraces questions asked and answered in two
Romanic languages; and the candidate whose collegiate work represents one
Romanic language only will find it difficult to acquire in one year the supplementary
language and absolve other requirements. Further, the thesis
must incorporate the results (elementary, at least) of original investigation
on the part of the candidate; and unless he already have at the outset, or find
very quickly, a promising subject of investigation, nine months will prove
insufficient for the work.

The Doctorate.—A varying number of Romance group courses, ranging
from fifteen to twenty, distributed over a period of three years after the
baccalaureate degree, are prescribed for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
in Romanic Languages. The final oral examination embraces questions asked
and answered in French, Spanish, and Italian. The scope and character of
original investigation presented by the candidate's dissertation must satisfy
the Romanic Faculty as a whole. To facilitate the acquisition of a speaking
knowledge of the third, or supplementary, Romanic language, candidates are
granted the privilege of optional attendance on any French, Spanish, or
Italian course in the College.