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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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30 COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND ARTS. Special students, not otherwise connected with, the University, may enter this department upon payment of moderate fees. ECONOMICS. The study of economics for undergraduates may extend through three years. The work is so arranged that the student can take a continuous course for either one or more years. The introductory courses are repeated each year and the advanced courses are divided into two groups and given in alternate years. Text books are used in the introductory courses, but only as guides. Every student is required to make frequent short reports on assigned topics and to undertake at least one more elaborate piece of investigative work. The assigned readings are designed to cover as large a field as possible in the literature of the subject, to present all disputed matters from different points of view, and are supplemented by discussions and lectures Educational development, acquaintance with the subject, and training for good citizenship are ends kept steadily in view. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. The courses are designed to give a continuous view of the two-fold subject from the earliest times to our own day. In the junior and senior years double courses are offered, so that students, having had the fundamental work of the sophomoreyear, may, if desired, confine themselves either to philology or to literature. The aim in the study of literature is to approach the works of an author from the philosophical, emotional, and esthetic, as well as from the merely linguistic and historical, points of view. To further this aim, students are required to report on assigned topics and on additional works not read in class, and also to read as broadly as possible in contemporary authors and in the critical works bearing on the author or period under discussion. FRENCH. (See Romance Languages, p. 36.) GERMAN. The primary aim of instruction in the elementary classes is, reading, so that the student may avail himself of the aid of for-
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