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GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
This course is a more specialized form of the B. A.
course on the same general lines; a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon
is essential to a profitable prosecution of it. The
historical study of the language is pursued in greater detail;
the student's attention is concentrated on the history and
Anglo-Saxons are given; Fourteenth Century English
receives detailed attention, and selected plays of the Elizabethan
period will be examined and studied critically.
The effort will constantly be made to make these
courses in the English Language run parallel on the linguistic
side with the courses in English Literature, so that
the two may profitably be taken together. Three times a
week.
Text-Books.—First term—Cook's Sievers' Old English Grammar (for
reference); Sweet's New English Grammar: Beowulf; Skeat's Principles,
I; Morris and Skeat's Specimens, I.
Second term—Morris and Skeat's Specimens, II; Skeat's Principles,
II; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the Student's Chaucer; Brooke's History
of Old English Literature; Professor's Lectures.
Cook's Anglo-Saxon Exercises may be used, and a
piece of technical work, such as the construction of a vocabulary,
the examination of particular points in syntax or
grammar, or the discussion of a particular author, may be
required of the M. A graduate.
PH. D.
Here only general hints and suggestions can be given,
the course adapting itself to the preferences of the student.
The foundations will be laid in a thorough knowledge of
Gothic, Old and Middle High German, and Old French to
the Sixteenth Century; phonetics will be carefully studied;
and the principles of comparative grammar and syntax will
be duly explained.
Frequent conference, stated examination, and original
research will form essential parts of this course.
The professor's large and choice collection of Anglo-Saxon,
English, German, and French philological works is
open to the students.
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