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ENGL 4241-01 Romantic Literature Spring 2010 Dr. Kathryn Pratt Russell A&S Room G-221 MWF 9-9:50 a.m. Course Description: A survey of British literature written during the period extending from 1780-1830, with emphasis on the six traditional Romantic poets and on rediscovered authors of the Romantic Period. Additional Information: This is a junior and senior level course in British Romantic literature and culture. We will study genres, philosophies, and cultural attitudes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. We will also ask how a text qualified as “literature” in this historical period. Required Text: You must buy the textbook and bring it with you to every class unless told otherwise. I reserve the right to dismiss you from the day’s class for repeated failure to bring the textbook. The text is: Romanticism: An Anthology. Edited by Duncan Wu. Third Edition. Blackwell, 2006; and also, Matthew Lewis's novel The Monk. Course Content: The content of this course syllabus correlates to education standards established by national and state education governing agencies, accrediting agencies and learned society/professional education associations. Please refer to the course correlation matrices located at the following website: http://a-s.clayton.edu/teachered/Standards%20and%Outcomes.htm Learning Outcomes: Students completing this class will be able to meet these outcomes specified by the English Department for the English major: Outcome 1. Analyze and evaluate texts that reflect diverse genres, time periods, and cultures. Outcome 2. Analyze the ways in which language and literature are related to class, culture, ethnicity, gender, histories, race, and sexuality. Outcome 3. Interpret texts from various perspectives by using close readings supported by textual evidence, and informed by critical theory. Outcome 5. Conduct effective research and writing as it relates to the field of English studies, by using a variety of technological and information sources.
Pre-Requisites: ENGL 1101 and 1102 with grades of C or above; and a survey (2000-level ENGL literature course) with a grade of C or above. Student Responsibilities: The university policies on student responsibilities must be followed. The link to the policies is: http://a-s.clayton.edu/BasicUndergraduateStudentResponsibilities.htm Disruption of the Learning Environment Behavior which disrupts the teaching–learning process during class activities will not tolerated. While a variety of behaviors can be disruptive in a classroom setting, more serious examples include belligerent, abusive, profane, and/or threatening behavior. A student who fails to respond to reasonable faculty direction regarding classroom behavior and/or behavior while participating in classroom activities may be dismissed from class. A student who is dismissed is entitled to due process and will be afforded such rights as soon as possible following dismissal. If found in violation, a student may be administratively withdrawn and may receive a grade of WF. Absence Policy: Students with more than 9 unexcused absences (20% of coursework) will be administratively withdrawn from the course with a WF as university policy requires. Students with more than 5 unexcused absences will earn an “F’ (0) for the class participation grade (20%). University Attendance Policy: Students are expected to attend and participate in every class meeting. Instructors establish specific policies relating to absences in their courses and communicate these policies to the students through the course syllabi. Individual instructors, based upon the nature of the course, determine what effect excused and unexcused absences have in determining grades and upon students’ ability to remain enrolled in their courses. The university reserves the right to determine that excessive absences, whether justified or not, are sufficient cause for institutional withdrawals or failing grades. Accommodations: Students with disabilities who need to request accommodations should contact the Disability Services Coordinator, STC 255, 678-466-5445, disabilityservices@mail.clayton.edu Computer Requirement: Each CSU student is required to have ready access throughout the semester to a notebook computer that meets faculty approved hardware and software requirements for the student’s academic program. Students will sign a statement attesting to such access. For further information on CSU’s Official Notebook Computer Policy, please go to http://itpchoice.clayton.edu/policy.htm. Computer Use In This Course: Student notebook computers will be open in the classroom only when the instructor requests it for coursework in class. Computers will be required to access course materials and to communicate with your instructor. Grading: For assigning a grade at the end of the term, I use a ten-point grade scale: 90-100=A; 80-89=B; 70-79=C; 60-69=D; below 60=F. I will assign letter grades throughout the semester that will be translated into numeric grades at semester’s end. Here is how your daily grades translate into numbers: A+ 100 A 95 A- 92.5 B+ 87.5 B 85 B- 82.5 C+ 77.5 C 75 C- 72.5 D+ 67.5 D 65 D- 62.5 F 55 (As Opposed to Incomplete Work 0)
Academic Dishonesty: Plagiarism: Plagiarism involves copying another person’s words or ideas without citing the source with appropriate documentation. A plagiarized paper is considered an incomplete assignment. Any student who plagiarizes will earn an F for the course.
Missed
Work:
Make-up quizzes will be given only if they are taken before quiz solutions
are posted (afternoon of the day the quiz is given). If the make-up quiz
cannot be taken before the solutions are posted, the missed quiz will be
counted as a quiz which can be dropped (approximately twelve to fourteen
quizzes will be given in the course). The highest ten quiz scores will be
used to calculate the course grade. Instructor Information: Dr. Kathryn Pratt Russell email: KathrynPrattRussell@clayton.edu phone: 678-416-8271 (cell) office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room G210-E office hours: MWF 10 a.m.-12 noon; Mon and Wed 1-2 p.m.
Grade Distribution: Peer Review of Draft Paper (given like a test in class) 10% Final Research Paper (8-10 pp): 30% Class Participation (incl. Quizzes): 20% Midterm Exam: 10% Final Exam: 20% Annotated Bibliography: 10%
COURSE SCHEDULE M Jan 11 Introduction: Enlightened, Romantic, and "romantic" W Jan 13 Edmund Burke, all selections, Romanticism: An Anthology, p. 7 F Jan 15 Introduction to anthology; Ottobah Cugoano (handout) M Jan 18 MLK Holiday No Class W Jan 20 William Cowper, "Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce," p. 21; Hannah More, "Slavery," p. 66 F Jan 22 Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, p. 279; Anna Barbauld, "Rights of Woman," p.41 M Jan 25 Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Intro and first 25 pages W Jan 27 Lewis, The Monk F Jan 29 Lewis, The Monk M Feb 1 Lewis, The Monk W Feb 3 Lewis, The Monk F Feb 5 Lewis, The Monk M Feb 8 Lewis, The Monk, and lecture on the Romantic theater W Feb 10 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience, p. 179 F Feb 12 William Blake, The Book of Thel, p. 176 M Feb 15 Helen Maria Williams, "A Farewell, for Two Years, to England," p. 301 W Feb 17 William Wordsworth, Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, p. 330; S.T. Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, p. 332 F Feb 19 William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey," p. 407 and "Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman" p. 403 M Feb 22 Wordsworth, Two-Part Prelude, p. 448-460 W Feb 24 Review for Midterm Exam F Feb 26 MIDTERM EXAM M Mar 1 Wordsworth, Two-Part Prelude, p. 460 W Mar 3 Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight," p. 624, "The Eolian Harp," p. 600 F Mar 5 Coleridge, "Kubla Khan," p. 619 MAR 7-13 SPRING BREAK M Mar 15 Coleridge, Letters, p. 684, Biographia Literaria, p. 691 W Mar 17 Charles Lamb, "Imperfect Sympathies," "Witches and Other Night Fears," p. 742 F Mar 19 William Hazlitt, "The Fight," "My First Acquaintance With Poets," p. 759 M Mar 22 Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, p. 810 W Mar 24 George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred, p. 896 F Mar 26 Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, p. 852 M Mar 29 Byron, CHP, Canto III W Mar 31 Percy Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," p. 1071, "Ode to the West Wind," p. 1175, "England in 1819," p. 1180 F Apr 2 John Keats, Letters and Poems, p. 1349-54, and 1388-90 M Apr 5 Keats, Odes, p. 1393 W Apr 7 Keats, Odes F Apr 9 Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, p. 1376 M Apr 12 Keats, Lamia, p. 1403 W Apr 14 Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, p. 938 F Apr 16 Byron, Don Juan, Canto II M Apr 19 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman, p. 1249 W Apr 21 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman F Apr 23 Letitia Landon (L.E.L.), "Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans," p. 1450, "Felicia Hemans," p. 1453 M Apr 26 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, all poems, p. 1463 W Apr 28 Jane Austen on film F Apr 30 Review for Final Exam M May 3 Review for Final Exam FINAL EXAM WILL BE GIVEN ON DATE ASSIGNED BY UNIVERSITY N.B. Syllabus schedule is subject to minor changes made by instructor
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