42 THE WEBER COLLEGE THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Professor Maughan COURSES IN RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION 1. English Composition. A detailed study of the principles of rhetoric is made, and a high standard of theme work is demanded. Required of each student in his first quarter of residence. Daily. Autumn or Winter quarters. Five credit hours. Text: Linn's "Essentials of Composition and Illustrative Selections." 2. English Composition. Forms of prose literature, composition work and study of models. The written work consists of a number of short themes of 100 to 200 words each and six long themes of 1500 to 3000 words each. Required of each student in his second quarter of residence. Open to students who have completed English I. Daily. Winter or Spring quarter. Five credit hours. 3. English Composition: Narration. A course designed to teach the principles of narration and to give practice in narrative writing. Prerequisite: English 1 and 2. Daily. Five credit hours. Autumn quarter. 4. English Composition: Exposition. A course designed to teach the principles of exposition writing. Daily and longer themes. Prerequisite: English 1 and 2. Daily. Winter quarter. Five credit hours. 5. English Composition: Argumentation. A course designed on the basis of practical logic, involving critical study of logical processes of thinking, THE WEBER COLLEGE 43 handling of evidence, detection of fallacies, and the like. Daily and longer themes. Prerequisite: English 1 and 2. Daily. Spring quarter. Five credit hours. COURSES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 6. Shakespeare. The reading and interpretation of representative comedies, tragedies and historical plays. Daily. Autumn quarter. Five credit hours. 7. English Literature from 1798-1832. A detailed study of the literature of the period designed to give training in methods of literary study and presentation of the result. Daily. Winter quarter. Five credit hours. 8. English Literature from 1832-1900. A study of the poetry and the prose of the period, designed to give training in methods of study and in the appreciation of literature. Daily. Spring quarter. Five credit hours. 9. Colonial American Literature. A study of colonial literature from the beginning to 1840. Daily Autumn quarter. Five credit hours. 10. American Literature. A study of the New England group of major poets and essayists and of their immediate followers. Daily. Winter quarter. Five credit hours. 11. American Literature. A study of metropolitan, southern, and western literature, emphasizing the spread of literary activity and the development of the short story and the novel since 1860. Spring quarter. Five credit hours.