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Note.—Any A courses which are not repetitions of courses previously
taken, may be substituted for any A courses of the regular session.
Likewise, any B courses which are not repetitions of courses previously
taken may be substituted for any B courses of the regular session.
English sA1-I. Composition: Both Terms. 9:30; L. B. 2. Credit, 1
session-hour.
First Term, Mr. MacLeod. Second Term, Mr. King.
Equivalent to one term of English A1 or A2. Narration will receive special attention.
English sA1-II. Survey of English Literature: First Term. 11:30; L.
B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Vaughan.
Chaucer to Dryden.
English sA1-III. Survey of English Literature: Second Term. 11:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. King.
Dryden to Tennyson.
English sA2-II. Survey of American Literature: First Term. 10:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. MacLeod.
American Literature to 1870.
English sA2-III. Survey of American Literature: Second Term. 8:30;
L. B. 2. Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. King.
American Literature since 1870.
English sB1-I. Recent Poetry, British and American: Second Term.
11:30; L. B. 3 Credit, 1 session-hour
Mr. Ramsay.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
A study of representative poets and poetical movements in England and America
since 1890.
English sB1-II. The American Novel: First Term. 9:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Gwathmey.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB1-III. The American Short Story: Both Terms. 10:30; L.
B. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.
First Term, Mr. Ramsay . Second Term, Mr. Gordon.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB2-I. Shakespeare—Tragedies: First Term. 8:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Harrison.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
The origin and development of Tragedy will be discussed, and Shakespeare's central
tragedies will be critically considered, with especial emphasis upon Hamlet.
English sB2-II. Shakespeare—Comedies: Second Term. 9:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Hench.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
Two comedies are read closely in class and eight or nine are read outside.
English sB2-III. Milton's Poetry: First Term. 11:30; L. B. 3. Credit,
1 session-hour.
Mr. Harrison.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
Chiefly a study of Milton's minor poems with an introduction to Paradise Lost and
Samson Agonistes.
English sB3-I. The Romantic Poets—Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge:
First Term. 11:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-II. Tennyson: First Term. 12:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1
session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-II. Browning: Second Term. 12:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1
session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB3-III. The Romantic Poets—Shelley and Keats: Second
Term. 11:30; L. B. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Sledd.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB4-I. English Biography of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries: Second Term. 10:30; G. H. 1. Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Metcalf.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
A study of a few representative literary biographies by means of selections together
with assignments in well known biographies from Boswell to Strachey.
English sB6-I. Advanced Composition: First Term. 12:30; L. B. 2.
Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Gwathmey.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sB6-III. Advanced Composition: Second Term. 8:30; L. B. 1.
Credit, 1 session-hour.
Mr. Gordon.
1 year of college English prerequisite for credit.
English sC2-I. The Rise of the Drama: First Term. 8:30; G. H. 1.
Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The rebirth of modern drama in the services of the medieval Church, and its development
in the English miracle plays, moralities, and interludes.
English sC2-II. Shakespeare: Second Term. 9:30; G. H. 1. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Metcalf.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The relationship of the dramatist to his period, and the influence upon his work of
contemporary literary and social conventions; a study of typical comedies, histories, and
tragedies, with some introduction to problems of Shakespearean scholarship. The course
will be conducted mainly by the seminar method.
English sC2-III. The Elizabethan Drama: First Term. 9:30; G. H. 1.
Fee $5.00.
Mr. Gordon.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The development of the Tudor and Stuart drama from 1558 to 1642; racial, social, and
political background; publications and stage production; problems of scholarship; dramatic
types; classical and contemporary foreign influences; literary relationships of the dramatists;
reading and analyses of typical plays. The course will be conducted mainly by the
seminar method.
English sC3-I. The English Language—Part I: First Term. 11:30;
G. H. 1. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
A study of Modern English as a living and growing organism with a survey of its
history and development. The special aspects studied during the first term will be
the English vocabulary, English dialects, and the relationships of English to other
languages.
English sC3-II. The English Language—Part II: Second Term. 8:30;
G. H. 3. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
A study of Modern English as a living and growing organism with a survey of its
history and development. The special aspects studied during the first term will be
English grammar and English sounds.
English sC3-III. Modern British Drama: First Term. 10:30; G. H. 1.
Fee $5.00.
Mr. Gordon.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The chief characteristic of the drama of the past thirty-five years will be examined,
and material for class study will be provided from the plays of Galsworthy, Shaw, Barrie,
Pinero, the Irish Theatre, etc.
English sC4-II. Milton: Second Term. 12:30; G. H. 1. Fee $5.00.
Mr. Ramsay.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
Milton as man, poet, and thinker in the light of recent investigation.
English sC5-I and sC5-II. Chaucer: Second Term. 10:30 to 12:30; G.
H. 2, upstairs. Fee $10.00.
Mr. Hench.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
The reading of Chaucer's principal works, a sketch of life in the fourteenth century,
and a survey of some types of medieval literature.
English sC7-I and sC7-II. Old English—Old English Grammar and
Prose Reading: First Term. 8:30 to 10:30; G. H. 2, upstairs. Fee $10.00.
Mr. Shannon.
3 years of college English prerequisite; for graduate credit, an approved
degree is prerequisite.
This course will not be given for fewer than six students.
English s41. Survey of English Grammar: Both Terms. 11:30; L. B. 5.
Credit, 1 session-hour elective.
Miss Andrews.
A comprehensive study of the indispensable features of present-day English grammar,
in which language is considered chiefly from the functional side, or service in thinking
and expression. Especial emphasis is given to sentence structure, analysis, practical sentence
improvement, educated usage, and punctuation.
Text: Buehler's Modern English Grammar. Revised Edition.
English s42. The Teaching of Composition: Both Terms. 8:30; L. B.
5. Credit, 1 session-hour elective.
Miss Andrews.
This course organizes language study upon a social basis as it immediately affects the
success of students as participants in and contributors to school life, the home group, and
community activities. Foundation problems growing out of the need of good English for
life uses furnish incentives and materials for expression and appeal to both group spirit
and individual striving for skill in language.
English s43. The Teaching of Literature in the High School: Both
Terms. 10:30; L. B. 5. Credit, 1 session-hour elective.
Miss Andrews.
This course makes each selection studied a concrete and suggestive example, through
demonstration of desirable subject matter and class procedure in high school literature. It
employs the group plan of reading and seeks a modern approach to literature without losing
the value of older standard literature.
The work will include selection of literature best adapted to High School Librarians,
with a comprehensive discussion of publishers, the checking of book lists and the best
methods of ordering.
See Library Science s82.
The Teaching of High School English: Both Terms. See Education
sB10-I (a).
For courses in New and Old Testament Literature and Biblical History and Literature,
see page 44.
For courses in High School English, see "College Entrance and High School Courses,"
page 89.
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