INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The following Announcement of Courses of Instruction provided by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 1907-08 is as full and exact as it can now be made. Some changes may hereafter be found necessary: some courses may be dropped, because they are not taken by a sufficient number of students, or for other reasons; and some additional courses may be provided: but these changes are not likely to be numerous. Most departments of study issue separate pamphlets containing detailed accounts of the instruction and other opportunities of study offered in those departments. Any of these pamphlets may be obtained at No. 2 University Hall, or on written application to the Secretary, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. The Courses of Instruction here announced are offered to students of Harvard College, of the Scientific School, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and of the Graduate School of Applied Science; but a student in regular standing in any other department of the University may be admitted to any course, named in the Announcement, for which he is qualified, provided it is not a laboratory course, or a course necessarily limited in numbers; see page 2. Courses of Instruction are classed as full courses or half-courses, according to the estimated amount of work in each, and its value in the fulfilment of the requirements for a degree. In the following list, halfcourses are expressly designated as such; all others are full courses, except the Courses of Research and Seminary Courses, which, if taken as work to be counted towards a degree, are usually rated as full courses, but may be estimated differently by special arrangement. The numbers and letters prefixed to the several courses are intended to be permanent, and no attempt is made to arrange them in a regular or complete series. The Roman numeral appended to each course indicates the examination group to which the course belongs (see pp. 104, 105). No student may choose two courses belonging to the same examination group, even when there is no conflict of hours of recitation or lecture, unless such choice is expressly authorized. A star (*) prefixed to the number of a course indicates that the course cannot be taken without the previous consent of the instructor. A double dagger (†) prefixed to the number of a course indicates that the course is open, under certain conditions, to properly qualified students of Radcliffe College. The Courses of Instruction are distributed, in most departments of study, into three groups, namely: Courses primarily for Undergraduates (lower group); Courses for Undergraduates and Graduates (middle group); Courses primarily for Graduates (upper group). Most of the courses in the lower group and many of those in the middle group are, as a rule, offered every year; but they are liable to some varia tions of subject and to a change of instructors, and some of them are occasionally suspended. Many courses in the middle and upper groups are given in alternate years. These courses are in most cases designated in the Announcement as so given. Some courses, especially in the upper group, are given at less frequent intervals. In the Announcement these courses are not mentioned unless they are to be given in the year for which the Announcement is issued; but information about them may be found in the special pamphlets of the several departments. Courses of which the titles are enclosed in brackets are to be omitted in 1907-08, but are probably to be offered in the following year. They must not, however, be regarded as promised for that year; and students who are making their plans to take a bracketed course, or indeed any course which, under the terms of the Announcement, might naturally be expected in a later year, are advised to communicate with the instructor. No student is admitted to any course unless he has fulfilled all the requirements for that course as stated in the Announcement, or has otherwise satisfied the instructor that he is prepared to pursue it. (These requirements are usually stated in notes attached to the several courses.) For information regarding the conditions and the mode of election of courses, students of Harvard College are referred to a pamphlet entitled "Rules relating to College Studies." MAY, 1907. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND HISTORY. Courses 1, 2, 3, 3a, 12, 16, 13, 4, 5 are the same as Old Testament 1, 2, 3, 11, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, respectively, in the Announcement of the Faculty of Divinity. 1. Hebrew. For Undergraduates and Graduates. - Davidson's Introductory Hebrew Grammar. tion of parts of Genesis and of the Book of Psalms. Fri., at 10. Professor LYON and Mr. DAVEY. ExplanaMon., Wed., (III) Courses 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 require no knowledge of Semitic languages. 6 hf. History of Babylonia and Assyria. Half-course. Sat., at 10. Professor LYON. (XI) 12. History of Israel, political and social, till the capture of Jerusalem by the Romans. - Text-books, lectures, and theses. Tu., Th., and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Sat., at 11. Professor LYON. (XII) Course 12 and English 35 may together be counted as one course and a half only. [16. History of Jewish Literature from the Earliest Times to 200 A.D. Tu., Th., at 2.30. Professor G. F. MOORE.] Omitted in 1907-08. Courses 16 and 13 are usually given in alternate years. (XV) It is desirable that students who elect Course 16 should have taken 13. History of the Hebrew Religion, with comparison of other Semitic Re- It is desirable that students who elect Course 13 should have taken [15 hf. History of the Bagdad Califate. - Mohammedanism in Egypt and Omitted in 1907-08. Courses 14 and 15 are usually given in alternate years. (VIII) |