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FRENCH AND SPANISH: General.
The courses offered in this School are General (B. A.), Special (M. A.), and
Advanced, or Post-Graduate (Ph. D.).
B. A. COURSE.
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.
GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
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.
The Advanced Course is intended for those students who elect Romance Languages
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It embraces two years of
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
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.
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