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II. German.
Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1: In this course the students begin with elementary grammar,
reading, and composition. About six hundred pages of German prose
are translated, and thirty pages of German in the form of weekly exercises
are written. One hour a week is given to conversation.
Text-Books.—First Term:—Bierwirth's Beginning German; Müller and
Wenckebach's Glück Auf.
Second Term:—Sealsfield's Die Prärie am Jacinto.
Third Term:—Das Mädchen von Treppi; Das Wirtshaus zu Cransac;
Gerstäcker's Irrfahrten; Baring-Gould's Story of Germany.
Course 2: Course 1 (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Course 2 in
German is, like the corresponding course in English, designed to lay a
broad foundation for the intelligent study of the language on both the
philological and the literary side. A carefully selected series of text-books
will gradually introduce the student to the pronunciation, grammar, syntax,
and translation of the language; exercises once a week in German
script will familiarize him with grammatical analysis; and appropriate
important sides of the study. Parallel reading is required.
Text-Books.—First Term:—Bierwirth's Elements of German; Stern's
Geschichten von Deutschen Städten; Von Klenze's Deutsche Gedichte;
Moore's or Hosmer's Short History of German Literature; Kron's German Daily
Life.
Second Term:—Hauff's Lichtenstein; Werner's Heimatklang; Goethe's Die
Neue Melusine; Zschokke's Der Tote Gast.
Third Term:—Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea; Schiller's Jungfrau von
Orleans and Maria Stuart; Freytag's Die Journalisten.
Course 3: Scientific German: Course 1 prerequisite.—Students
taking this course will, during the first term, take the work of Course 2,
outlined above, and will then read Gore's Dippoldt's, or Brandt's Scientific
German Reader (at least two of these).
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 4: Course 2 prerequisite.—This course is a more specialized
continuation of Course 2 in German, on the same general lines. The
historical study of German is taken up; the masterpieces of German
literature are systematically studied in critical annotated texts; exercises
continue throughout the year; and the literature and life of Germany are
studied in some detail. Parallel reading is required, and one hour a week
is given to conversation.
Text-Books.—First Term:—Whitney's Compendious German Grammar;
Behaghel's Historical Grammar; Stein's Exercises; Goethe's Meisterwerke
(Bernhardt's); Lodemann's Germany and the Germans; Francke's Social
Forces in German Literature.
Second Term:—Whitney, Stein, Francke and Behaghel, continued;
Wenckebach's Meisterwerke des Mittelalters; Scheffel's Ekkehard; Freytag's
Soll und Haben.
Third Term:—Annotated Editions of Lessing, Goethe, Heine, Grillparzer,
Kleist.
For Graduates Only.
Course 5: Courses 2 and 4 prerequisite.—A course in the Middle
High German Epic.
Course 6: Courses 2 and 4 prerequisite.—A course in German Prose
of the Eighteenth Century.
Course 7: Courses 2 and 4 prerequisite.—A course in Old High
German.
Course 8: Courses 2 and 4 prerequisite.—A course in Gothic.
(Courses 1-6 were given in 1906-7.)
Courses 5, 6, 7, and 8 are open to students who desire to specialize
in the subject of German, and especially to those who choose this subject
as their major elective for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. German
and English combine admirably for the doctorate as "major" and "primary
minor," either from the German or from the English point of view.
the student's studies. If German is elected, Gothic, systematically studied
through Wright's Primer, Bernhardt's Gotische Bibel, and Skeat, is the
foundation. Behaghel's Heliand (Saxon) may well follow this. A course
in Old and Middle High German, studied in the works and editions of
Braune, Wright, Sievers, Erdmann, and Henry, connects the Gothic and
modern High German, and gives ample philological as well as literary
training to the German specialist.
Conversation Clubs.—An opportunity for practice in German conversation
is given to students who desire it in the conversation clubs
connected with the work of the school. These clubs are open to all
students of German in the University, and meet, under the direction of
the adjunct professor, one hour a week each. Attendance is voluntary,
and membership in each club is limited to twelve.
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