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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE. 123 3. For Students in College of Literature.—The study in this year will be conducted in German, History ol German Literature, Manual, Wenkibach Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Lectures on same. Readings and reports on assigned reading. Texts, Goethe's Faust (1st part), and Torquato Tasso; Lessing's Nathan der Weise, and Minna von Barnheim; Schiller's Wallenstein; Buchheim's Deutsche Lyrik, and selections from modern authors. Fall, winter, and spring terms, 5 hours a week. Professor SNYDEB. Required: German, 1, 2. 4. Special one year's course for students in Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and Science. Otis's German Grammar; Joynes's Reader; Gore's German Science Reader. Fall, winter, and spring terms, 5 hov/rs a week. Professor SNYDEB. ENGLISH LITERATURE. The aim of instruction in this department is to acquaint the student with the resources of English literature, to teach him how to study its best productions, and to awaken and confirm in him a love for such study. The methods adopted for securing these ends are intended also to Involve general discipline equal to that afforded in the study of the ancient classics. All the courses except 6, 7, and 8 are required for the degree of B.L. 1. American Authors.—The first term of the freshman year is given to a general survey of American literature. This survey is mainly critical, rather than historical and biographical. The student is expected also to read and write a critique upon a book by an American author, selected from a prescribed list. The student also prepares and enters in a note book, a general historical outline of the whole subject, worked up by himself in the library of the University. Scudder's American Prose and American Poems. Fall term, 5 hours a week. Professor BUTLEK. 2. British Authors.—The second and third terms of the freshman year are devoted to a similar survey of the literature of England since 1550. Here also the historical and biographical side of the study is kept subordinate to the critical. Using the texts as a basis of induction, the student is led to see for himself through what phases English literature has passed in its devel-
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