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The Departments of Comparative Literature and German both plan to offer several new courses next year, it was learned yesterday.
Comparative Literature 162, "Valery, Rilke, and Yeats," an undergraduate course, will be taught in the Spring by Paul M. DeMan, lecturer on Comparative Literature.
Comparative Literature 185, "The Shape and Content of Classical Drama," to be taught by Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, will compare representative plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Seneca, in an attempt to better understand the literature of Greece and Rome.
Comparative Literature 270, "Thematics," a seminar on the historical and psychological significance of certain recurrent themes in Western literature, will be taught by Henry A. Murray '15, professor of Clinical Psychology, and Harry T. Levin, professor of Comparative Literature.
"German Bab," an intensive course in elementary German, will stress the acquisition of basic reading skills and will include practice in aural comprehension. It will be open only to students who have had less than two years of German in secondary school.
German 113, "Schiller," is a half course to be taught in the Spring by Reginald H. Phelps '30, lecturer on German. Also German 152, "Rilke," will be offered in the Fall by Bernhard Blume, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture.
The last lower level German course proposed, German 137, "Lyric Poetry and Prose Fiction of the Nineteenth Century," will deal with interpretations of the poetry of Heine, Morike, Keller, and Fontaine.
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