The University of Alberta
English 101: Critical Reading and Writing
2002-2003 Section M8 Tues. and Thurs.9:30-11:00
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Objectives: This course will concentrate on the critical
reading of representative works selected primarily from both the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, including essays, novels, plays, poems, and short
stories. Works to be studied will
reflect the generic, stylistic, and geographical range of writing (both
traditional and experimental) in English. Through instruction in close critical
reading and in writing skills, this course aims to help students become better
thinkers and clearer writers.
Texts:
Stott,
et al. The Harbrace Anthology of
Literature, 3rd edition (Nelson)
Farvolden
and Lumsden, The Prentice Hall Classic Short Prose Reader (Prentice-Hall)
Shelley,
Frankenstein (The original 1818 text,
Broadview)
Kogawa,
Obasan (Penguin)
Hacker,
A Canadian Pocket Style Manual
(Bedford)
Evaluation:
Term Work
70% of final grade
Final Exam 30% of final grade (2 hours;
questions for all exams will be drawn both from lecture content and from
works covered in tutorial)
1 - 500 word essay
0%
1 - 750 word essay
10%
1- 1000 word
essay 10 %
1 - 1500 word essay 15%
1 - 2000 word essay 25%
Christmas mid-session exam 15%
In Class Writing 5%
Class participation
10%
Total term work 100%
Grading System
9
= 90-100% A/A+ Excellent
8
= 80-89% A/A- Excellent
7
= 73-79% B/B+ Good
6
= 65-72% B-/C+ Good
5
= 58-64% C Satisfactory
4
= 50-57% C-/D Satisfactory (pass)
3
= 46-49% F Unsatisfactory
(fail)
2
= 35-45% F Unsatisfactory (fail)
1
= 0-34% F Unsatisfactory (fail)
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 (please consult the attached handout).
2. Absolutely no extensions on assignments
without medical certificates. Late papers
will be docked 5% per day. Essays will
not be accepted that are more than one week late.
3. Class Participation includes
attendance, having reading done before class, actively engaging in group and
general discussion, completing activities assigned to be done before a specific
class, writing of short, impromptu assignments given during a class.
Tentative Course Outline for English 101
-- Section M8
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
Sept. 5 Introduction
Diagnostic
essay assigned
10
Key concepts and “Bartleby the Scrivener” (Harbrace)
12 Discussion of literary and critical
terms, Atwood’s “Amnesty International:
An Address” (Prose Reader)
17 Swift, “A Modest Proposal,” (Prose
Reader) Politics and Ideology
19 Discussion, Diagnostic essay returned and distribute topics for Essay 2
24 Kogawa, Obasan
26 Discussion
Oct 1 Kogawa, Obasan
3 Discussion and Essay 2 Due
8 Wollstonecraft “A Vindication…” (from
the Prose Reader), Gilman “The Yellow Wall-paper,” (Harbrace) and
Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (Harbrace)
10 Discussion
15 MacLeod, “The Boat” (Harbrace)
17 Discussion and return essay two
and distribute topics for Essay 3
22 Shakespeare, The Tempest (Harbrace)
24 Midterm
Exam
29 Shakespeare, The Tempest (Harbrace)
31 Discussion
Nov 5 Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress,” (Harbrace)
Tennyson “Ulysses,” (Harbrace) and Imperialism
7 Essay
3 Due
12 University closed: class cancelled
14 Nationalism, Yeats, “Easter 1916” (Harbrace)
and Joyce, “Araby” (Harbrace)
19 First Nations, King, “Borders,” (Harbrace)
Dumont, “Letter to Sir John A.” (Harbrace) and “The Rant”
21 Web
Assignment
26
Cyberculture
Wendell
Berry: “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer”
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/%7Etipiglen/berrynot.html;
John Perry Barlow: “A
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
http://www.eff.org/%7Ebarlow/Declaration-Final.html
Gertrude
Himmelfarb: “A Neo-Luddite Reflects on the Internet”
http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/projects/tictoc/news/himmelfa.htm
28 Discussion
Dec 3 Exam Review, Return web assignment
Dec. 17 Midsession
Exam, 9:00 am (in class)
Term 2
Jan. 7 Wordsworth,
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” “The
world
is too much with us,” Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a
Grecian
Urn,” Shelley, “Ozymandias” (all selections in the Harbrace)
9 Exam
Return
14 Library Assignment
16 Topics for Essay 4
23 Shelley, Frankenstein, cultural criticism, James Whale’s Frankensteins
28 The Gothic, Poe “Fall of the House
of Usher” (Harbrace)
30 Discussion
Feb 4 Essay as Narrative: White “Once More
the Lake,” David Suzuki, “The
Pain
of Animals,” and James Thurber, “University Days” (all selections in the Prose
Reader)
6 Essay
4 Due
11 Post-colonialism, Clarke, “The Motor
Car,” (Harbrace) Walcott, “Ruins of a Great House” (Harbrace)
13 Discussion and topics for Essay 5
25 Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (Harbrace)
27 Discussion
Mar 4 Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (Harbrace)
6 Discussion
11
Lyric poetry and subjectivity: Jonson “On My
First Son,” Bradstreet,
Shakespeare,
“Sonnet 130” (all selections in the Harbrace)
13 Discussion
18 Plath, “Daddy” and Dickinson, “The Soul
selects her own society,” and “Because I could not stop for Death” (all
selections in the Harbrace)
20 Essay
5 Due
25 T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J.Alfred
Prufrock” (Harbrace) and Leonard Cohen, “Closing Time” (Harbrace)
27 Discussion
April 1 Mistry, “Squatter” (Harbrace)
3 Discussion
8
Term Review
April 14 Final
Exam, 9:00 am (in class)