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SUMMER SESSION. 327
ROMANCE LANGUAGES.
A. Recent French Literature. Selections from Coppee and
Maupassant. Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. Translation and com
ments on the text, including points of etymology, syntax and literary
criticism, with practical directions to teachers regarding a linguistic
school-equipment and the preparation of the subjects presented. M.,
T,, W., Th., F., 8. White 10. Assistant Professor Olmsted.
B. The French Drama of the Eighteenth Century. Transla
tion, and comments on the text, with reference to the question of
versification, the unities, the decline of the classical drama, and rela
tion to the political condition of France. M., T., W., Th., F., 9.
White 10. Assistant Professor Olmsted.
ENGLISH.
A. English Literature. Courses in English Literature will be
arranged for and announced in the larger circular which may be had
on application. Professor .
B. The Drama. Its Theory and Forms, with English illustra
tions. Lectures and Exercises. Five hours. Daily except S., 9.
White 2. Assistant Professor Strunk.
SCIENCE AND ART OF EDUCATION.
A. The Philosophy of Education. Lectures, discussions, and
readings. Daily ex. Sat. ,
10. White 10. Professor DeGarmo.
This course is founded upon the dual character of education. It
of social forces upon
will discuss the following topics : The bearing
education. The doctrine of. interest. The function of imita
tion in education, apperception,
will training. The doctrine of for
mal culture. The relative value of studies. The correlation of
studies. The laws governing rational methods of teaching in depart
ments and individual branches, as founded upon general logic, the
logic of sense-perception and apperception.
B. of History Education. Lectures, discussions, and prescribed
reading. Daily ex. Sat., 11. White 10. Professor DeGarmo.
This course will give a of survey
the educational movements
leading
of the 18th and 19th centuries in education, including a special study
of Rousseau, Pestolozzi, Froebel, Herbart, and the leaders of modern
scientific education. It will also trace the development of humanism,
and make a survey of the history of modern science as an instrument
of instruction.