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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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66 COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND ARTS book is used, supplemented with lectures and a critical discussion of the written exercises. From ten to thirty short themes a term are required from each student. More emphasis is put upon practice than upon theory. The second year's work is a daily theme course, and is intended to give practice in higher English composition and criticism. A one-term course is offered in the theory and practice of argumentative discourse. ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES This department offers four years of instruction in French and one year each in Spanish and Italian. In the elementary courses the main object is to give the student correct pronunciation, grammatical knowledge, and the ability to read the languages with facility. In the second year attention is especially directed to various phases of nineteenth century literature; effort is made to ground the student thoroughly in the modern idiom, and lectures are given upon the outlines of French literature. The woTk of the third year is a study of the masterpieces of the seventeenth century. Ability to understand readily spoken French is requisite for admission to this course. The field of the fourth year's work is literature and society in the eighteenth century. A graduate course is offered in Old French; some of the more important texts are studied, and attention is given to the origins of the language. SOCIOLOGY (See economics in the philosophical group in the College of Science, p. 120, and courses 6 and 7, under economics, in the "General Description of Courses," p. 232. See also, for allied courses, anthropology, p. 160, and psychology, p. 185-) SPANISH (See Romance Languages.)
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