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Note.—Any A courses which are not repetitions of courses previously taken,
may be substituted for any A courses of the regular session.

Likewise, any B courses which are not repetitions of courses previously taken
may be substituted for any B courses of the regular session.

English sA1-I: Composition: First Term. 11:30; L. B. 2. Credit, 1
session-hour.

Mr. Vaughan.

Equivalent to one term of English A1 or A2. Narration will receive special attention.

English sA1-II: Survey of English Literature: First Term. 9:30; L.
B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Vaughan.

Chaucer to Dryden.

English sA1-III: Survey of English Literature: Second Term. 9:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Johnson.

Dryden to Tennyson.

English sA2-II: Survey of American Literature: First Term. 10:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Harrison.

American Literature to 1870.

English sA2-III: Survey of American Literature: Second Term. 8:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Johnson.

American Literature since 1870.

English sB1-II: The American Novel: Second Term. 11:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Shepperson.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English sB1-III: The American Short Story: First Term. 8:30; L.
B. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Harrison.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English sB2-II: Shakespeare—Tragedies: Second Term. 9:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Shepperson.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English sB3-I: The Romantic Poets—Shelley and Keats: First Term.
11:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Sledd.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English sB3-II: Recent Poetry, British and American: Second Term.
8:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Gordon.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

A study of representative poets and poetical movements in England and America
since 1890.

English sB6-III: Advanced Composition: First Term. 10:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Hill.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English sB7-I: Browning: First Term. 12:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1
session-hour.

Mr. Sledd.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English sB7-II: Milton: First Term. 9:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Harrison.

1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.

English sC1-II: Shakespeare: First Term. 8:30; G. H. 1. Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Hill.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

A study of the comedies, histories, and tragedies, and of Shakespeare in relation to
his times; with an introduction to problems in Shakespeare scholarship. The course will
be conducted mainly by the seminar method.

English sC1-III: The Early Eighteenth Century Novel: Second Term.
8:30; G. H. 1. Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Shepperson.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

Among the novels to be read are: Pamela (the first two volumes), Joseph Andrews,
Tom Jones, Roderick Random, Humphrey Clinker, Vicar of Wakefield, Tristram Shandy,
A Sentimental Journey.

English sC2-I: The Elizabethan Drama: First Term. 9:30; G. H. 1.
Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Gordon.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

The development of the Tudor and Staurt drama from 1558 to 1642; racial, social, and
political background; publications and stage production; problems of scholarship; dramatic
types; classical and contemporary foreign influences; literary relationships of the dramatists;
reading and anlyses of typical plays.

English sC2-II: American Drama: First Term. 10:30; G. H. 1. Fee,
$5.00.

Mr. Gordon.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

English sC2-III: Modern British Drama: Second Term. 9:30; G. H.
1. Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Gordon.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

English sC5-I: Chaucer: First Term. 11:30; G. H. 1. Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Hench.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

A close reading of the best of the Canterbury Tales.

English sC5-II: Chaucer—Continued: Second Term. 10:30; G. H. 1.
Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Hench.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

Troilus and Criseyde, and other poems not taken up in the first term.

English sC7-III: Medieval Romances: First Term. 12:30; G. H. 1.
Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Hench.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

English sC8-I: Spenser—Faerie Queene: First Term. 11:30; G. H. 3.
Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Hill.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

English sC11-I: Early Eighteenth-Century Essayists: Second Term.
11:30; G. H. 1. Fee, $5.00.

Mr. Johnson.

3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved degree
is prerequisite.

Swift, Addison, Steele, and other essayists of the eighteenth century will be studied.

(See paragraph 4 on page 43.)

English s41: Survey of English Grammar: Second Term. 11:30; L.
B. 5. Credit, 1 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
improvements, educated usage, and punctuation.

Text: Buehler's Modern English Grammar and Composition. Revised Edition.

English s42: The Teaching of Composition: Second Term. 8:30; L. B.
5. Credit, 1 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: Second
Term. 10:30; L. B. 5. Credit, 1 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 seeks a modern approach to literature without losing
the value of older standard literature.