Texts:
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
others available through Ereserves or online
Course Description:
Composition of essays and arguments with a focus on speaking.
Course Objective:
Through thorough analyses of various literary sources you will enhance your
abilities to produce cogent essays and narratives. You will also grow more
comfortable with public speaking by performing before your peers and working
on group projects.
Learning Goals:
At the completion of the course, you should be able to:
1) Acquire a better understanding of narrative structure – the science
of what makes a story work – the “Physics of Language” so
to speak.
2) Gain a new knowledge of the power of both written and spoken language.
3) Examine your place in the world with a new set of intellectual tools.
Requirements:
Workload:
Participation in class discussions
Exams on the various texts
Frequent quizzes and short journal assignments
One group presentation
A final project
Attendance and Participation:
Since this course depends upon a full and engaged classroom, we all suffer
from
absences. The attendance policy is, therefore, strict and absolute. Miss three
classes and your grade is reduced by one full letter. Miss six and you will
be
dropped from the class. If you are present and not participating in discussion
or
group work, you will be counted absent. For every three times you are late
for
class, you accumulate one absence.
Late Work:
I absolutely, positively do not give makeup exams or quizzes or accept late
papers.
Grades:
Quizzes 20%
Journals 20%
Exams 20%
Attendance/Class Participation 20%
Final Project 20%
Plagiarism:
You all know what this is: using someone else’s ideas and claiming them
as your
own. You also know that it is wrong. It will earn you a failing grade in this
class,
and expulsion from the university, and it is pathetically easy to prove thanks
to
internet.
Disability Statement:
If you would like to request accommodations for a disability that could affect
your performance in this course, please contact me and/or the office of Disability
services at 334-5440.
The Writing Center:
If you need help with your writing, please take advantage of the Writing Center.
It is located in 101 McIver. The hours are M-Th, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and F, 9
a.m.
to 3 p.m. You can contact the Writing Center at 334-3125.
Eng 102-12 Tentative Schedule
Aug 16: Introductions and Syllabus
Aug 18: Learning about Point of View (stand up)
Aug 23: Semiotics: the study of “signs”
Aug 25: Discussion of Stephen King essay – (ereserve)
First journal due
Aug 30: If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – open discussion
Sept 1: Winter’s Night – Quiz 1
Sept 6: Winter’s Night
Sept 8: Winter’s Night – Exam 1
Sept 13: Film - Memento
Sept 15: Memento concludes
Sept 20: Discussion on film – Quiz 2
Sept 22: Presentations due
Eng 102-12 Tentative Schedule
Aug 16: Introductions and Syllabus
Aug 18: Learning about Point of View (stand up)
Aug 23: Semiotics: the study of “signs”
Aug 25: Discussion of Stephen King essay – (ereserve)
First journal due
Aug 30: If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – open discussion
Sept 1: Winter’s Night – Quiz 1
Sept 6: Winter’s Night
Sept 8: Winter’s Night – Exam 1
Sept 13: Film - Memento
Sept 15: Memento concludes
Sept 20: Discussion on film – Quiz 2
Sept 22: Presentations due