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SCHOOL OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES.
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The subjects taught in this School are the French, Spanish, and Italian
Languages.
The following courses were offered during the session of 1898-99:
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 three 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 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: Special.
B. A. COURSE.
Text-Books.—Whitney's Large French Grammar and Introductory French
Reader; Matzke's French Pronunciation; Bruno's Tour de la France; Joynes'
Classic French Plays; Kuhns' St. Pierre's Paul et Virginie; Fortier's Littérature
Françalse. Exercises. Parallel reading (completion of the texts
begun in class). Heath's, Gase'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 seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
A course in Scientific French, for the benefit of medical and other students,
will be offered as occasion requires.
M. A. COURSE.
For pronunciation: Matzke's French Pronunciation; Koschwitz's Parlers
Parisiens. For reference and study: Harrison's French Syntax; Brachet-Toynbee's
Historical French Grammar. For reading: Fasnacht's Select Specimens
study of select periods of French culture and civilization); Voltaire's Siècle
de Louis XIV (for the study of one typical reign); professor's lectures on
Eminent French Writers; Chardenal's Advanced Exercises. Examinations
on definite assigned work.
SPANISH: Special.
B. A. COURSE.
Text-Books.—Manning'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.
Text-Books.—Knapp's Grammar, with lectures based on Foerster's Sprachlchre
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.
No previous knowledge of the language is required, but some knowledge
of Latin or French will be helpful. The object of this course is to
introduce the student into the language by easy steps and to present
to him the language in its modern form as represented by the most
popular authors. A rapid review is made of the grammar, then an
introductory reader is taken up, and then some complete work. Special
stress is laid on pronunciation and weekly exercises are required.
Text-Books.—Grandgent's Grammar; Bowen's Reader; De Amicis' Cuore
and La Vita Militare; Pellico's Le Mie Prigioni.
M. A. COURSE.
The same requirements exist here as in M. A. German.
Text-Books.—Vockeradt's Grammatik: Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi; Tasso's
Gerusalemme Liberata; Dante's Divina Commedia.
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