SEMITIC LANGUAGES WILLIAM POPPER, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Semitic Languages. MARTIN A. MEYER, Ph.D., Lecturer in Semitic Literature and History. Students intending to prepare themselves for the ministry or otherwise interested in the work offered by the department are advised, on the basis of a good knowledge of the classical and modern languages, to take in their junior year courses 101A-101в and 3A-3B, and in their senior year courses 104A-104B, and 111A-111в or 113A-113B. Courses 8A -8B and 9A-9B offer a survey of the entire development of Biblical and postBiblical Jewish history. The graduate work provides for research along the lines of Biblical exegesis, Arabic literature, and Semitic philology in general. The courses to be given in any year and the time thereof will be decided in accordance with the requirements of students; courses 104A-104B, 206A-206B, 212A-212B, 214A-214B, and 215A-215в may be repeated indefinitely, without duplication of work. Facilities for Graduate Study.-The Semitic section of the University Library contains practically all of the works requisite for the pursuit of advanced Semitic studies. The Biblical and general Hebrew collections are largest; the Greenbaum, Louis Sloss, Elkan Cohn, and Jacob Voorsanger (Deinard) collections alone contain over 3,000 titles, and include such valuable examples as the editio priceps of the Talmud Babli, of Alfasi, of the Kuzari, of the Mishne Tora, and of the Miklol; and in the case of several other important Rabbinical works, two or more editions of each are to be found. The Arabic section of the Library is now fairly representative. The University Library is a subscriber to all the important Semitic periodicals, and possesses complete sets of back numbers. UPPER DIVISION COURSES MAJOR COURSES 101A-101B. Introduction to the Study of the Semitic Languages. Associate Professor POPPER. Lectures on the nature and classification of the Semitic languages. 1 hr., throughout the year. 104A-104B. Hebrew. Associate Professor POPPER. Second course: Rapid reading of selections from the historical books of the Old Testament. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Time to be arranged. Text-book: Brockelmann, Syrische Grammatik. 113A-113B. Arabic. Associate Professor POPPER. Text-books: Socin, Arabic Grammar, Brünnow, Chrestomathy. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Time to be arranged. 116c-116D. Arabic, Commercial. Associate Professor POPPER. Reading of commercial documents, newspapers, etc. FREE ELECTIVE COURSES 3A-3B. Hebrew. Associate Professor POPPER. First course: The elements of the language, with exercises in translating from Hebrew into English and from English into Hebrew, followed by the grammatical interpretation of the Book of Ruth. 3 hrs., throughout the year; 3 units. Time to be arranged. 8A-8B. The Second Hebrew Commonwealth. Dr. MEYER. Lectures on the history and literature of the Hebrews in Palestine after the return from the captivity (536 B.C.). 1 hr., throughout the year. Tu, 2. 9A-9B. The Diaspora. Dr. MEYER. Lectures on the life and letters of the Jews after the fall of Jerusalem (70 A.D.). 1 hr., throughout the year. Tu, 3. 25A-25B. The Mohammedan Countries. Associate Professor POPPER. Lectures on the geographical, religious, social, and political conditions in Asiatic Turkey, Egypt, and North Africa. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Tu Th, 11. GRADUATE COURSES Associate Professor POPPER. 206A-206B. Exegetical Course. Philological interpretation of one or more of the prophetical and poetical books of the Bible. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Prerequisite: course 104A-104B. 207A-207B. Medieval Hebrew Literature. Azariah de Rossi's Me'ôr 'Enayim. Associate Professor POPPER. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Prerequisite: 107A-107B, 206A-206B. 210A-210B. Biblical and Targumic Aramaic. Associate Professor POPPER. Selections from the Aramaic portions of the Old Testament and from the Targumim. 1 hr., throughout the year. 212A-212B. Syriac. Rapid reading of various authors. 2 hrs., throughout the year. 214A-214B. Arabic. Associate Professor POPPER. Associate Professor POPPER. Selections from Arabic historians dealing with the Crusades and with the Moslem empire in Spain. 2 hrs., throughout the year. 215A-215B. Arabic. (a) Arabic poetry (selected). (b) The Koran, with commentary. Associate Professor POPPER. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Courses a and b in alternate years. 219A-219B. Semitic Epigraphy. Associate Professor POPPER. Interpretation, in successive years, of selected (a) Phoenician, (b) Aramaic, and (c) South Arabian inscriptions. 1 hr., throughout the year. Prerequisite for (a) course 104A-104B; (b) 210A-210в or 212A-212в; for (c) 214A–214B. 220A-220B. Semitic Seminar. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Associate Professor POPPER. SLAVIC LANGUAGES GEORGE R. NOYES, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Slavic Languages. LOWER DIVISION COURSES 1A-1B. Elementary Russian. Associate Professor NOYES. Motti, Russian Grammar. Boyer and Speranski, Russian Reader. Practice in conversation. 3 hrs., throughout the year. M W F, 1. Slavic 1в may also be given during the first half-year of 1915-16. Hours to be arranged. 6A-6B. Elementary Polish. Grammar and reading. Associate Professor NOYES. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged. 15A-15B. Elementary Bohemian. Grammar and reading. Associate Professor NOYES. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged. By special arrangement with the instructor, any one of these three courses may be counted as work of the upper division, as a major course in Slavic languages. 3 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged. 107A-107B. Second-year Polish. Tarnowski i Próchnicki, Wypisy polskie. Associate Professor NOYES. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged. 116A-116B. Second-year Bohemian. Associate Professor NOYES. Truhlár, Výbor z literatury české (doba nová). 2 hrs., throughout the year. Tu Th, 9. Instruction will be offered in other Slavic languages if there is occasion for it. *Not to be given, 1915-16. FREE ELECTIVE COURSES The following courses do not require a knowledge of any language other than English, and are open to all students of the upper division. By special arrangement with the instructor, they may be taken as major courses in Slavic languages. 20. The Russian Novelists. Associate Professor NoYES. Lectures and reading. Authors: especially Tolstoy; also Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Gorki, and others. 3 hrs., first half-year. M W F, 3. *21. Russian Literature. Associate Professor NOYES. Lectures and reading. An outline history of Russian literature, exclusive of the novelists. Russian folk-lore. 2 hrs., second half-year. Tu Th, 11. 22. Slavic Literature. Associate Professor NOYES. Lectures and reading.. A brief account of the literature and folklore of Poland, Bohemia, Servia, and Bulgaria. 3 hrs., second half-year. M W F, 3. GRADUATE COURSES The University library offers ample material for advanced study of Russian literature and philology, and for the comparative study of the Slavic languages. 213. Old Church Slavic. Associate Professor NOYES. Leskien, Handbuch der altbulgarischen Sprache. Study of the relations of Old Church Slavic to the other Indo-European languages. 3 hrs., second half-year. Hours to be arranged. 232A-232B. Advanced Russian. Associate Professor NOYES. Mandelkern, Historische, Chrestomathie der russischen Litteratur. Composition. Practice in conversation. 3 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged. *Not to be given, 1915-16. |