Undergraduate Courses
Various surveys of English and American Literature, and:
Argumentation and Debating
Browning
Chaucer and Middle English
Colonial Literature
Contemporary Dramatists
Emerson
English Composition
Literary Criticism
Lyric Poetry – A study of the principles of vocal interpretation and practice in the reading of some of the great lyrics of English and American literature.
National Ideals in American Literature
Recent Dramatists
Representative English Writers – A study of representative poets and novelists from Pope to the present time.
Resume of English Literature – A review study of literature, designed to emphasize some of the leading principles of appreciation, and to summarize impressions of a few great authors…
Short Story Writing – A study of the principles of story writing; analysis of masterpieces of the short story form, practice in original composition and criticism.
Spenser and Milton
Teaching of English in the Junior High School
The Drama and Shakespeare
The French Revolution and English Literature
The History of the Novel
The Pedagogy of English
The Pedagogy of Preparatory School Literature – A study of the aims, methods, and educational values of the secondary school course in English Literature, with reading and analysis representative selections from the list of college entrance requirements.
The Revolutionary Period
The Technique of the Drama
Graduate Courses
Carlyle
Chaucer and Middle English
Elizabethan Drama
Emerson
George Meredith and the Comic Spirit
History of the English Novel
History of the Theatre
Literary Criticism
Old English
Pre-Shakespearian Drama
Recent English Poets
Revolutionary Period of English Literature (Romantics)
Ruskin
Shakespeare
The Eighteenth Century
The Principles of Literary Criticism – A study of the criteria of literary excellence. For the Fall Term, a consideration of the general principles of imaginative literature, its function in society and education, its nature, its elements, etc: for the Winter term, a review of the most important theories of criticism, from Aristotle to the present time; for the Spring Term, a study of the major types of literature, and an application of the principles to contemporary writers.
The Technique of the Drama
Victorian Literature
The following is the opening page of the English department offerings in the 1914 Course Catalogue. The full list is available through Documenting Pitt.
