1E. The Newspaper.

Professor THORPE.

Materials and methods. News: elements and sources, structure of news story, the interview. Human-interest story; emphasis of form in newspaper writing; kinship of short-story and humaninterest story. Feature story.

Scheme of office organization, with duties and qualifications of editorin-chief, managing editor, departmental editors, and reporter. The press associations.

Students will gather campus news and write and edit copy for the Summer Session Californian, a paper to be published twice a week by the classes in journalism.

This course is designed, first, to equip students with elementary principles of newspaper-making, and, second, to fit them to become correspondents for local and metropolitan papers. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 10. 25 North Hall.

1F. Editorial Theory and Practice.

Professor THORPE.

A study of the work of editorial executives, with practice in preparing assignments, reading copy, and writing heads for the Summer Session Californian. Students in this class will direct news and editorial policies of the paper and supervise its general make-up. The forms of editorial writing will be studied for effectiveness in winning the reader's belief, sympathy, and support. Practice will be afforded in the use of such controversial weapons as sarcasm, irony, satire, and in handling auxiliary editorial matter.

A study will be made of some of the ethical problems of journalism, such as clean and honest advertising, the suppression of news, treatment of crime news, editorial color in the news columns. units.

M Tu W Th F, 8. 25 North Hall.

2

History of English Literature.

The history of English literature from the beginnings to the end of the eighteenth century is covered in three courses, 2A, 2B, 2c. Taken together, these three courses are the equivalent of the course 2A-2B given in the regular session. Students may enroll in any or in all three of these courses.

S2A. From the Beginnings to the Elizabethan Period.

Assistant Professor KURTZ.

With special attention to Beowulf, the Christian epic, Arthurian romance, and the Miracle, Mystery, and Morality Plays. Brief attention to parallel development on the continent. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 3. 113 California Hall.

S2B. From the Age of Elizabeth to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Mr. MACMINN.

Prose and verse, other than the drama; special attention to the romantic epic (Spenser), the Elizabethan lyric, the rise of the novel, and the prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 1. 23 North Hall.

S2c. Main Types of Elizabethan Drama.

Mr. MACMINN.

An historical survey of the chief types of Elizabethan comedy and tragedy, with special emphasis upon romantic comedy, comedy of humours, and tragedy of revenge. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 2. 23 North Hall.

S3c. Reading and Dramatic Interpretation.

Assistant Professor VON NEUMAYER.

Theory and practice of oral interpretation. The course is designed to develop the power of dramatic reading. Exercises will be based upon the reading of Shakespeare and some of the modern dramatists. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 1. 24 North Hall.

UPPER DIVISION COURSES

S7D. Public Speaking.

Free Elective

Assistant Professor VON NEUMAYER.

Prere

The principles underlying extemporaneous and prepared speaking; exercises based upon assigned topics in current events. quisite: consent of the instructor. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 2. 24 North Hall.

MAJOR COURSES

COMPOSITION

S106G. Advanced Narration.

Mr. BLANCHARD.

Compositions in personal narratives and in stories. Prerequisite: the consent of the instructor. Limited to twenty students. 2 units.

M Tu W in F, 8. 23 North Hall.

PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE

Assistant Professor KURTZ.

S109A. Lectures on Poetry. Lectures on the nature and function of poetry, its relation to the other arts, its various kinds or types, and principles of development. Illustrated by study of masterpieces, and by historical surveys of various periods or types of ancient and modern literature. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 2. 113 California Hall.

HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE

Courses 111A and 111D are parallel to the regular English courses of the same numbers, but are not so extensive. They will, however, enable a student to prepare for English finals II (History of the English Language).

While the work of these courses is, of necessity, largely linguistic, it is concerned also with the literature as such, and aims to study the masterpieces read as literary types and in connection with the life of the times that produced them.

S111A. Old English.

Dr. SMITHSON.

A study of the language and literature of the Anglo-Saxons; grammar; the relation of Old to Modern English; the reading of Old English prose and poetry. Bright s Anglo Saxon Reader. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 9. 23 North Hall.

S111D. Middle English: Chaucer.

Dr. SMITHSON.

A study of Middle English language and literature; lectures on the Canterbury Tales; readings and reports. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 10. 23 North Hall.

S112A. The English Language in English History.

Assistant Professor BROOKE. This elementary course traces the development of English life and thought as registered in language change from the earliest times to the present day. Attention is given to the general principles of philological science, to the relations of English with allied Germanic or Romanic tongues, and to the significance of language as an index of social progress. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 8. 22 North Hall.

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL STUDY OF THE LITERATURE

150. Rousseau and Romanticism.

Professor BABBITT.

A rapid review of the important facts and a study of the underlying tendencies of the Romantic Movement. Lectures and readings.

2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 11. 101 California Hall.

151. English and French Literary Criticism, 1550-1800.

Professor BABBITT.

Courses 150 and 151 together constitute a study of the two chief literary movements of modern times, the neo-classical and the romantic. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 10. 101 California Hall.

S117A. Shakespeare.

Assistant Professor BROOKE.

Reading and interpretation of several plays; lectures on Shakespeare's life and art. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 9. 22 North Hall.

COURSE FOR TEACHERS

Assistant Professor BASSETT.

154. The Teaching of Literature.

A detailed consideration of the materials and organization of the high school course in English literature (including American), with special attention to methods of teaching. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 1. 22 North Hall.

GRADUATE COURSE

Assistant Professor KURTZ.

246. Seminar in the Elizabethan Lyric. Intensive and methodical study in the variation of the lyric type during the Elizabethan Age. This course will probably be continued in the Summer Session of 1915, thus affording graduate students an opportunity of completing four hours of graduate seminar in two successive sessions. Satisfactory work in this course and the corresponding course in 1915 will be accepted by the English department as fulfilling the seminar requirement for the master's degree. Prerequisite: graduate standing and the consent of the instructor. 2 units.

M Tu W Th F, 4. 2 Library.