University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

The General Course embraces such a knowledge of the selected language
as an intelligent student may be expected to acquire in one year. Some previous
preparation is most desirable. The aim of this course is to acquaint
the student with the pronunciation, phonology, grammar, and general syntax
of the language through systematic oral and written practice, to initiate him
into the literature through easy and abundant reading, and to lay a solid
foundation for the prosecution of his Special and Advanced courses, if he
elects to continue his studies in this School.

M. A. COURSE.

The Special Course embraces a systematic extension of the General Course
along the same lines, but is at once more comprehensive and more specialized
in certain directions; incessant practice in translation and composition, gradually
increasing in difficulty, is continued; instruction in syntax, in historical
grammar, and in literature is given by lecture and abstract; and an orderly
reading of the great writers in each language, chronologically arranged, is
planned and accomplished by class work and collateral reading.

PH. D. COURSE.

The Advanced or Post-Graduate Course is intended for those students that
elect Romance Languages for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It embraces
two years of post-graduate work in any two languages of the group,
and is especially adapted to students who have graduated in Latin and Greek.
Study of the comparative grammar, vocabulary, and literature of these languages
is made a special feature of this course. Most attractive combinations
can be made in this department, such as French-Italian, Spanish-French,
Portuguese-Spanish, Provençal-French, Latin-French, etc. Graduation in
Latin is indispensable for the prosecution of a Ph. D. course in Romance Languages.
Instruction will be given by conference, assigned private work, and
stated examination, and a dissertation evincing original research in some department
of grammar, phonetics, syntax, literature or history, will in every

case be required. Detailed courses for intending students will be arranged
by the Professor on application.

FRENCH.

B. A. COURSE (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10).

Texts: Whitney's Large French Grammar and Introductory French Reader; Bruno's
Tour de la France; Joynes' Classic French Plays; Fontaine's Prosateurs et Poètes du
XIX Siècle. Exercises. Parallel reading (completion of the texts begun in class).
Heath's, Gasc's or Bellows' Dictionary. The texts used have been so chosen as to form
a suitable general introduction (a) to the grammar, (b) to the vocabulary, (c) to the
history and geography, and (d) to the literature of France in the XVIIth and XIXth
centuries.

M. A. COURSE (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11).

For pronunciation: Koschwitz' Parlers Parisiens; Passy's Sons du Français (Association
Fonétique). For reference: Harrison's French Syntax. For reading: Fasnacht's
Select Specimens of Great French Writers; Crane's Series of French Prose (for the
study of select periods of French culture and civilization); Voltaire's Siècle de Louis
XIV (for the study of one typical reign); Fortier's Littérature Française (reference-text
for professor's lectures on Eminent French Writers); Chardenal's Advanced Exercises.
Examinations on definite assigned work.

SPANISH.

B. A. COURSE (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12:30-1:30 or 10-11.)

Texts: Edgren's Spanish Grammar (for rapid survey); Knapp's Reader (for current
Spanish prose); Todd's Don Quijote, with Selections from Lope and Calderon (for classical
prose and poetry); Valera's Pepita Jiménez; Harrison's History of Spain; Seoane's
Dictionary. Exercises. Definite collateral reading and examinations on assigned work.

M. A. COURSE (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1:30-2:30).

Texts: Knapp's Grammar, with lectures based on Foerster's Sprachlehre and Wiggers'
Grammatik der Spanischen Sprache; Selections from the lyric and dramatic poets and
from the great prose writers, in connection with Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature;
Isla's Le Sage's Gil Blas; El Romancero del Cid; Seoane's Dictionary. Exercises,
assigned collateral reading, and stated examinations on definite assigned work.

Ph. D. Courses in Old French, Provençal, and Old Spanish will be arranged and offered
as they are required. The texts, editions, grammars, and chrestomathies of Schwan,
Bartsch, Keller, Groeber, Suchier, Vietor, Gaston Paris, Meyer, Darmesteter, and others,
will be used, and the professor's extensive collection of Modern Language works will be
freely open to students of the School.

ITALIAN.

B. A. Course.—Grandgent's Grammar; Foresti's Reader; De Amicis' Cuore; Pellico's
Le Mie Prigioni.

M. A. Course.—Vockeradt's Grammatik; Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi; Tasso's Gerusalemme
Liberata; Dante's Divina Commedia.

[The courses in Italian will be for the present directed by Professor Perkinson.]

University of Virginia Library

SCHOOL OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES.

FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN.

Professor Harrison.

B. A. COURSE.