Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn - Polywog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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22 tastes. All studies are pursued in the historical and critical method, with a view to their interrelations and the gradual unfolding of human thought. Instruction is given by means of lectures, recitations, and reports and essays based on original research. ' In the Freshman year the prescribed courses embrace the study of the theory and practice of rhetoric, the study of debating, of plane trignometry and higher equations, of general chemistry, of mediaeval history, of the German and the French language and literature: and as options there are offered courses in oratory, in descriptive analytical geometry, in free-hand drawing, and in laboratory practice in chemistry. In the Sophomore year the prescribed courses include the history of the English language, the general outlines of English literature, as well as a detailed course in Elizabethan letters, courses in zoology and geology, in modern history, in the history of the Renaissance and Reformation or the history of France, in German and French literature, with an extended course in mechanics and a course in oratory as options. In the junior year the prescribed courses include the his- tory of the English novel or of English literature during the eighteenth century, a course in nineteenth century poetry, courses in electricity, sound, heat, light, English history, and American political history, the elements of political economy, logic, argumentative composition, and German literature, while as electives there are offered courses in the science of language, in the history of art, of architecture, of education, in public finance, and sociology, in general astronomy, in laboratory physics, and courses in the Spanish language and in French literature. In the Senior year the prescribed studies embrace an extended course in comparative literature, courses in psycho- logy, ethics, the history of philosophy, and one course in German, French, Spanish, or Italian literature, while as elec- tives there are offered courses in the theory and history of literary criticism, in Anglo-Saxon, in American literature, in Chaucer, and in the English romantic movement, courses in international law and comparative constitutional law, in the

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I'll'l.l'lI'l l'llI.IIIl l HHHUHH The Course in Arts offered by the Polytechnic Institute is designed for those students who wish to secure the advantages of a college education without pursuing the study of the advanced classics. The course embraces all branches required in the best colleges, with the exception of Latin and Greekg for which is substituted more extended work in English and literature, in history, in philosophy, in political and social science, while in modern languages provision is made for four years of systematic study embracing German, French, Spanish, and Italian. Upon the completion of this course, the student should be able to speak and write these languages, and in addition should possess a comprehensive knowledge of their literatures. Inasmuch as the aim of the Course in Arts is to lay the broad foundations of general culture, it is especially desired that students who enter upon it may have had so much of the classics as is usually required of those entering other colleges. Such students will find that, without sacrificing anything of what is requisite for a liberal education, this course, in its more detailed attention to sciences and arts, can afford them greater advantages than are to be derived from a training merely classical. For the first two years the subjects offered by the curricu- lum are mainly prescribed, with certain additional optionsg but in the last two years a considerable range of electives is presented, allowing of specialization according to individual TSC OURSE

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23 history of philosophy, in resthetics, in advanced Icomposition, in historical research and municipal problems, and in such of the Junior electives as may not already have been taken. In both the junior and Senior years free-hand drawing is offered as an option. The Course in Arts may be pursued with profit by any student, whatever the profession or occupation upon which he may enter in after life, but, for those who intend to follow the law, teaching, medicine, journalism or literature, commerce, banking, manufacturing, or any other than a strictly technical career, it is believed that this course offers peculiarly advantage- ous preparation. Q cf? , '2vI1 . I ' his I 'sg ' -- rs, ARL ,Zi g 'smkj