SYLLABUS

 

European Literary Classics: I

English 201

Internet Enhanced Version

Spring 2002

Section 2TTR  11:00-12:15, Petty 116

Section 3TTR 12:30-1:45, McIver 028

 

Instructor:            Stephen R. Yarbrough, Professor

Office:             121 McIver Building

Office Hours:            TR 1:30-2:30 and by appointment

Office Phone:            334-5650

Home Phone:            292-1186

E-mail:            sryarbro@uncg.edu

 

Texts:

 

Lawall, Sarah, ed.  The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.  Vol 1, Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaissance.  7th ed.  New York:  W. W. Norton & Co., 1999.

 

Blackboard Distance Delivery

 

Approximately one half of the courses content will be delivered online through Blackboard.

 

To access Blackboard, you must know your UNCG username (email username) and password.  If you dont have these, go to www.uncg.edu/cis then find the link for a UNIX account application.  Once online, use your browser to go to http://bb.uncg.edu. Log in.

 

Make sure that you are registered for the right section and that, once in Blackboard, you always pull up information from ENG201.02.03.

 

Grading:  Grades will be determined by 10 weekly quizzes (10% of your total grade), class participation (10%), online participation (10%) a mid-term exam (35%), and a final exam (35%).

 

Course Requirements:

 

1.  Quizzes:  These will be taken online on the days posted in your Assignments section in Blackboard.  I will offer you quizzes nearly every week, but only your best ten will count toward your grade.  Most quizzes have ten questions, and for most you must answer all ten correctly to get credit for one (1) point.

 

2.  Class Participation:  You are expected to come to class with your reading done and prepared to ask and answer questions.

 

3.  Online Participation:  Blackboard records everything you say in Discussion Board and in the Virtual Classroom, then sorts by student.  I will review your comments for both quantity and quality.  The Discussion Board is NOT a chat room.  Comments and questions posted here should be well thought out and well written.

 

4.  Examinations:  The mid-term and final exams will be taken in class and will be either short-answer or essay, or a combination.  The mid-term covers the first half of the semester; the final covers the second half.

 

4.  Attendance:  Extensive unexcused absences (over three) will result in failure.  This includes online absences.  Unexcused absences on examination days will result in lowering your grade by 5% each.

 

5.  Assignments:  Below is listed a tentative schedule, but in Blackboard under Assignments is the schedule that counts.  I will revise it occasionally. Changes will be announced on the Announcements page.

 

On our online days, you are expected to review all the materials for each text that I have made available in Blackboard. To find these materials, from the list of buttons on the Welcome page click Course Materials, then Lecture Materials, then (for example) Gilgamesh.  There you will find links to the materials. For some of the readings you will find in Lecture Materials a page of helpful links to Internet resources.  These are not required viewing.  Everything else is.

 

Schedule

 

Week 1, Jan. 15, 17

 

T.  Introduction to course

R.  Gilgamesh, pp. 18-36

 

Week 2, Jan. 22, 24

 

T.  Gilgamesh, pp. 36-37

R.  Genesis, pp. 51-58 (Chaps. 1-4; 6-9)

 

Week 3, Jan. 29, 31

 

T.  The Iliad, pp. 104-120 (Bk. 1); pp. 176-189 (Bk. 22)

R.  Online

 

Week 4, Feb. 5, 7

 

T.  The Odyssey, pp. 262-273 (Bk. 5); pp. 303-316 (Bk. 9)

R.  Online

 

Week 5, Feb. 12, 14

 

T.  The Eumenides, pp. 567-595

R.  Online

 

Week 6, Feb. 19-21

 

T.  Oedipus the King, pp. 599-640

R.  Online

 

Week 7, Feb. 26, 28

 

T.  The Apology, pp. 727-746

R.  Online

 

Week 8, Mar. 5, 7

 

T.  Mid-semester Review

R.  Mid-semester Exam

 

     SPRING BREAK

 

Week 9, Mar. 19, 21

 

T.  Beowulf, pp. 1086-1103

R.  Online

 

Week 10, Mar. 26, 28

 

T.  Sir Gawain, Parts 1 & 2, pp. 1459-1483

R.  Online

 

Week 11, April 2, 4

 

T.  Sir Gawain, Parts 3 & 4, pp. 1483-1512

R.  Online

 

Week 12, April 9, 11

 

T.  Canterbury Tales:  The Millers Prologue and Tale, pp. 1534-1548

R.  Online

 

Week 13, April 16, 18

 

T.  Thousand and One Nights, pp. 1188-1609

R.  Online

 

Week 14, April 23, 25

 

T.  Paradise Lost, Book 9, pp. 2220-2232 (ll. 1-566)

R.  Online

 

Week 15, April 23, 25

 

T.  Paradise Lost, Book 9 (cont), pp. 2232-2245 (ll. 567-1189)

R.  Online

 

Week 16, April 30, May 2

 

T.  Review for Final Exam

R.  Online

 

 

FINAL EXAMINATION

 

Section 2Tues. May 14, 12 noon-3:00 p.m.

Section 3Thurs. May 9, 12:00 noon-3:00 p. m.