1930-1931 Academic Catalog

DESCRIPTION OF COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL STUDIES FRENCH PROFESSOR WOOD 1-2. BEGU ING FRE CH rammar, composition, and drill in syntax, with colloquial practice and some easy reading. Elective. Four hours a week throughout the year. 3-4. INTERMEDIATE :FRENCH- Study of texts Crom some of the best French novelists, short story writers, and dramatists. Grammar review and conversation. Elective. Four hours a week throughout the year. 5-6. .ADVANCED FRENCH- This course is intended to develop free oral and written expression in French and to prepare the student for the higher l!'rench literary courses. Grammar and phonetics; study and analysis of plays and novels; reference work and collateral reading. This course is given in French. Elective. Three hours a week throughout the year. 7-8. ADV.ANCED FRE CH- This course is for advanced students who have taken the course 5-6. The course will be arranged each year in accordance with the needs of the students. GEOLOGY PROFESSORS JURKA.T .AND PARRY 1-2. GEOGRAPHY- A course in professionalized subject matter considering con– tent, organization, method, recent tendencies, comparative studies of text books, type studies, problems and project methods, regional geography. Four hours a week. 1st. and 2nd. semesters. Profsssor Parry. 3-4. GENERAL GEOLOGY- Dynamic and historical geology. Field work required. Elective. Three hours a week. Two semesters. Professors Jurkat. GERMAN PROFESSOR JURKAT 1-2. GERMAN I-Constant drill in inflection and syntax, and both oral and written work required. Elective. Four hours a week throughout the year. 3. READING .AND COMPOSITION-The work consists of easy stories and drill in composition and syntax. Elective. Four hours a week, one semester. 4. WILHELM TELL-The course oft'ers drill in j)f)etry and study o! the German drama. Elective. Four hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 5. HEINE-Harzreise and poems are read, with study cf politics and society. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 7-8. ADV.ANCED GE RM.AN- This course is for advanced students who have taken the previous courses. Th is course wUI be arragned each year in accordance with the needs of the students. 9. SCIE TIFIC GERMAN-Three times a week, one semester. Not given every year. 10. GOETHE'S FAUST-Three times a week, one semester. Not given every year. GREEK PROFESSORS McCHESNEY A."l\/D J\;RK_\'r 1-2. BEGINNING GREEK-Paradigms, rules, and exercises in translation. Elec– tive. l!'our hours a week throughout the year. Professor McChesney. 3. .ANABASIS- Translation, syntax, composition, with historical references. Elective. Four hours a week, first semester. 4. HOMER- Books I to VI of the Iliad, scanning, mythology, syntax. Elective. Four hours a week, second semester. 5-6. GREEK NEW TESTAMENT-New Testament Greek, emphasizing peculiarities of form, and exegesis, with rapid reading of various portions. Elective. Three hours a week, throughout the year. Professor McChesney. 7. HERODOTUS-Selections are read, Biography, history, pec11liartics, and syntax. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 8. MEMORABILIA- The course ls introductory to the study of l'lato. Gram– matical drUl and history will be the leading features. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester-. Not given every year. 9. PLATO-The Apology and rlto constitute the study of Socrates. Grc,clan philosophy is reviewed. Elective. Three hours a week, one semester. Not given every year. 11-12. DEMOSTHENES- The Oration on the Crown is studied. Oratory, rhetoric, and argumentation are leading themes. Elective. Three hours a week throughout the year. Not given every year. PAGE FORTY-THREE