The University of Alberta
English 111: Language, Literature, and Culture
Section E1, 2004-2005, MWF 11-11:50: Term 1, Bus. 2-5; Term 2 Bus. B-9 

Instructor: Prof. Robert Brazeau  				E-mail:rbrazeau@ualberta.ca   
Office:  HC 3-65						Phone:  492-7840
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00-1:00pm or by appointment

This course will, through a series of readings across genres and historical eras, examine creative and rhetorical uses of the English language, with particular emphasis on the relationship between artistic production and the cultural and political context from which it emerges. We will read fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fictional prose; as well, we will examine films, cyber media, and other forms of representation in this course.  Broadly speaking, this course has three distinct goals: to introduce students to the discipline of English; to examine the ways in which those in that discipline think about and analyze literary and everyday language practices; and to help students become more proficient writers and readers. 

Texts: 
Stott, et al. (eds), The Harbrace Anthology of Literature, 3rd ed.  (Nelson)

Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Graham Swift, Last Orders

Evaluation:
Term Work 	70% of final grade
Final Exam	30% of final grade (2 hours; includes work from the entire course)

Distribution of Term Marks
1 - web-based assignment   	 	10%  
1 -  750 word essay			15%  
1 - 1000 word essay			20%  
1 - 1500 word research paper		25%
1 - annotated bibliography		  5%
1 - Christmas exam (1 hour)		15%  
Class participation			10%

Total term work			100%

Grading System
4.0 = A+    Excellent
4.0 = A      Excellent
3.7 = A-     Excellent
3.3 = B+    Good
3.0 = B      Good
2.7 = B-     Good
2.3 = C+    Satisfactory
2.0 = C      Satisfactory
1.7 = C-     Satisfactory
1.3 = D+    Poor
1.0 = D      Minimal Pass
0.0 = F       Failure

Instructions and Regulations

1.  Essays are to be handed in at the beginning of class, and to be your own.  Plagiarism is a serious academic offense and will be discussed in class. The University of Alberta is committed to the highest standards of academic integrity and honesty. Students are expected to be familiar with these standards regarding academic honesty and to uphold the policies of the University in this respect. Students are particularly urged to familiarize themselves with the provisions of the Code of Student Behaviour (online at www.ualberta.ca/secretariat/appeals.htm) and avoid any behaviour that could potentially result in suspicions of cheating, plagiarism, misrepresentation of facts and/or participation in an offence. Academic dishonesty is a serious offence and can result in suspension or expulsion from the University.

2.  No extensions on assignments will be given on the day your essay is due. You may take one extension without explanation during the duration of this course; all others must be due to illness and will only be granted when you present a doctor’s note indicating the dates your illness prevented you from completing your work.  Late papers beyond the one allowable “explanation-free” extension that are not documented with a doctor’s note will be docked 5% per day, including weekends.  

3. Class participation is essential to a course like this, and it will be the student’s responsibility to have readings done before class and to come to meetings fully prepared to discuss the works at hand.

4.  Policy about course outlines can be found in Section 23.4(2) of the University Calendar.

5.  Students should consult the attached Regulations Pertaining to First-year Courses for information about appeals, reassessments, plagiarism, and external help with assignments

Tentative Course Outline  

	This schedule is subject to additions and/or deletions. We will take up the assigned readings on the designated date unless otherwise specified; you are expected to have the entire work read for the date noted.  
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Term 1
September
08	Introduction to the course, syllabus, and regulations	
10	Diagnostic Writing (in class and ungraded)
13        Melville, “Bartleby, The Scrivener”
15        Melville continued
17	Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
20	Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (Harbrace)
22	Writing: essay outlines, introductions, and thesis statements
24        Browning, “My Last Duchess” (Harbrace)
27	Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (Harbrace)
29	Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (Harbrace)

October
01	Writing Workshop
04	Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O.” (Harbrace) Essay exchange 
06	Peer Editing
08	Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” (Harbrace); First essay due
11	Thanksgiving, University Closed
13        Joyce, “Araby” (Harbrace) 
15        MacLeod, “The Boat” (Harbrace)
18        King, “Borders” (Harbrace)
20-29  Swift, Last Orders 
	
November
01        Writing Workshop
03        Mistry, “Squatter” (Harbrace)
05        Web assignment due; in-class writing
08 	Plath, “Daddy” (Harbrace)
10	Heaney, “Death of A Naturalist” (Harbrace)
12	Fall Term Class Break, University Closed
15-26	Shakespeare, The Tempest (Harbrace)
29        O’Connor, “The Partridge Festival” (handout)
 
December

01	O’Connor, “Everything that Rises Must Converge” (handout)
03        Walcott, “Ruins of a Great House,” “A Far Cry from Africa”
06	Purdy, “The Country North of Belleville”
08	Discussion of Mid-Session examination; review
Mid-Session examination, Monday December 20, 9:00 am, in our regular meeting room

Tentative Outline, Term 2

January
10	Exam Return and discussion
12-19  Swift, Last Orders
21      Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (Harbrace)
24      Larkin, “Church Going”
26      Yeats, “The Second Coming,” “Easter, 1916”
28      Auden, “In Memory of William Butler Yeats”

February
02      Eliot, “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Harbrace)
04      Forester, “My Wood” (photocopy)
07-14 Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest     
14       Essay Exchange
16       Peer Review
18       Wilde completed; Third Essay Due
21-25	Reading Week
28       Class Cancelled

March
2	Library session
4	Annotated Bibliography; Writing
7	Writing Research Papers
9          Writing Research Papers
11	Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
14	Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
16	Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
18	Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
21        Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
23        Writing
25-28   Easter Break	
30	      cummings, “next of course god america i” (Harbrace); Essay Exchange

April
01	 Peer Review
04	 Tan, “Two Kinds” (Harbrace)
06         Hollingshead, “The Naked Man” (Harbrace)
08         Laurence, “The Loons”  (Harbrace)
11         Mistry, “The Squatter” (Harbrace)
13         Review, discussion of final examination

Please check the examination timetable that is posted to confirm that our final is scheduled for Thursday, April 28, 9-11am.  The final exam is 2 hours in length.