Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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26 ALBION COLLEGE French authors. The study of the history of French Grammar will also be begun. Course IV. — Two hours per week throughout the year. Hours to be arranged. French conversation. Baumann ' s Pictorial French Course and French Daily Life, serve as the basis for the year ' s work. Special attention is given to the idioms of the language. Repro- duction, on the part of the student, of French stories, dictation, etc. Note. — Only students having had at least one year of French and who are taking French at the time, will be permitted to enter the class. NORMAL WORK IN FRENCH. In order that every prospective teacher of French may have the opportunity to train professionally before going into the active work of teaching, it has been decided to add this feature to the Department of Romance Languages. Every student, desiring to avail himself of this opportunity, is expected to take regular work in the department while engaged in the Normal work. The Normal Course is intended to cover the Junior and Senior years of the college course. FIRST YEAR. First Semester: History of Education (see Pedagogy.) Credit three hours. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 2:15. Second Semester: History of Modern Language Teaching. Elements of Phonetics. Analytical-inductive method of teaching French grammar. What and how to select for a reading course in French. Credit two hours. Hours to be arranged. During the entire year the student is required to attend begin- ning language classes as observer. SECOND YEAR. First and Second Semesters. Methods in French. The student is expected to attend the beginning class in French, assist in looking over and correcting written work as well as the work on the blackboard for the purpose of personal preparation, and teach a class of pupils of high school strength in the afternoon in the presence of the instructor. Discussion and criticism once a week. Credit two hours. SPANISH. Continuation of first year ' s work. Grammar, Reading, Conver-

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YEAR BOOK FIRST YEAR. First Semester: History of Education (see Pedagogy). Credit three hours. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 2:15. Second Semester: History of Modern Language Teaching. Elements of Phonetics. Analytical-inductive method of teaching German Grammar. What and how to select for a reading course in German. Credit two hours. Hours to be arranged. During the entire year the student is required to attend begin- ning language classes as observer. SECOND YEAR. First and Second Semesters: Methods in German. The stu- dent is expected to attend the beginning class in German, assist in looking over and correcting written work as well as work on the blackboard for the purpose of personal preparation, and teach a class of pupils of high school strength in the afternoon in the presence of the instructor. Discussion and criticism once a week. Credit two hours. Hours to be arranged. FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Course I. — Four hours per week throughout the year. Mon- days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at both 7:30 and 8:30. First Semester: Reading. Easy Prose. Construction ; pronunciation ; study of the parts of speech ; conversation. Second Semester : Reading of easy prose continued. Construction; grammar; French composition; conversation; the study of modern France. Course II. — Four hours per week throughout the year. Mon- days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 11 :00. First and Second Semesters: Reading. Such books at Sand ' s La Mare au Diable; Erckmann-Chatrian ' s Madame Therese, Le Consent ; some easy French plays are read and interpreted in French. Construction ; grammar ; French composition. Conversation ; the study of France ; its customs and institu- tions. Course III. — Two hours a week throughout the year. Mon- days and Wednesdays at 1:15. First and Second Semesters. Duval ' s History of French Liter- ature will be taken up and studied with appropriate selections from

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YEAR BOOK 27 sation. Two hours per week throughout the year. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:15. Note. — Other Teutonic or Romance Languages may be offered if sufficient numbers present themselves for such courses. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Course I. — The Elements of Logical Composition. Three hours per week throughout the year. Required of all Freshmen. A study of the principles of rhetoric, together with practice in the construction of exposition and argumentative discourse. The work is divided equally into recitation from text, writing and criticism of standard examples of English prose. This class will be divided into three sections. Students deficient in the rudiments of composi- tion will be required to do special work to make up the deficiency, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:30, 10:00 and 11:00. Course II. — The Elements of Literary Composition. Two hours per week throughout the year. Required of all Sophomores. First Semester : A study of Persuasion ; an investigation into the laws of inducing action ; the practice of methods of winning men. This course is based on the principles of psychology under- lying the phenomenon of belief, and is an attempt to learn the rules and the practice of employing words to win approval and action. Second Semester: A study of Description and Narration from the standpoint of the laws of mental imagery and rhetorical struc- ture. Reading and criticism of novels and short stories. The work is supplemented and emphasized by a brief study of the essentials of poetry, in order to appreciate the significance and basis of the emotional element in composition, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:30 and 10:00. Course III. — A study of English Prose Style. Two hours per week throughout the year. An . inductive investigation of the Masterpieces of English Prose from Bacon to Emerson, supple- mented by a study of the various theories of style. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 :30. Coarse IV. — Writing. One hour a week throughout the year. This course is designed to furnish practice for those students who wish to develop the art of writing No limit is placed on the range of subjects. Open only to those who have had two years