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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.
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