English 101 Syllabus (Helgerson, Fall 07)
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English 101, Fall 2007
Professor Richard Helgerson
Office hour: T 11-12
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE
Sept 27: Introduction
Oct 2: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (NA 218-38)
Oct 9: Chaucer, The Miller's Prologue and Tale (NA 239-255) and the Wife of Bath's Tale (NA 275-84) and Marie de France, Lanval (NA 142-155)
Oct 16: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (NA 162-213)
Oct 23: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Letter to Ralegh and Book 1, proem and cantos 1 and 2 (NA 716-742)
Oct 30: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (NA 1023-1055)
Nov 6: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Nov 13: Sonnets: Francesco Petrarch, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Joachim du Bellay (handout); Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella 1, 6, 71 (NA 975-976, 977, 986), Spenser, Amoretti 1, 68, 75 (NA 903, 905-6), Samuel Daniel, Delia 33, 45, 46 (NA 998-999), Michael Drayton, Idea To the Reader of These Sonnets, 6, 61(NA 999-1000), Lady Mary Wroth, Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (NA 1453-1461)
Nov 20: Shakespeare, Sonnets (NA 1061-1073)
Nov 27: Shakespeare, Sonnets (NA 1073-1077), John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (NA 1263-1271)
Dec 4: Donne, Holy Sonnets, "Good Friday," "A Hymn to Christ," "Hymn to God My God," "A Hymn to God the Father" (NA 1295-1302)
Dec 12: Final Examination (8 to 11 am)
REQUIRED TEXTS:
1.) The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1 (8th edition).
2.) Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1.) Reading. Reading assignments are listed for each week and should be completed in time for the Tuesday lecture.
2.) Attendance and participation. Regular and punctual attendance at every class meeting, lecture as well as discussion section, is required. If you are not in class regularly and on time, you will not be considered to have taken the course and will thus not receive a passing grade.
3.) Journal. Keep a journal of your reading of during the quarter. The style of the journal can be quite informal and it need not be typed, but it should represent a serious response to the reading. Entries should be on standard size paper, should be identified by your name, your TA's name, and the day and time of your section, should be turned in to your TA each week prior to the Tuesday lecture, should cover the reading assigned for that week, and should be at least a page in length. Late entries will not be accepted except in cases of illness or family emergency. Individual journal entries will not be graded, but your overall course grade will be lowered if more than one entry is missing. A student who has turned in fewer than 60% of the entries will not pass the course.
4.) Papers. There will be two 5-6 page papers. The first will be due in your TA's mailbox in the English Department by 3 pm on Friday, October 26; the second will be due in your TA's mailbox by 3 pm on Friday, November 16. Topics for these papers will be handed out two weeks before the papers are due.
5.) Final examination. The three-hour final exam will cover the reading for the full course and will be divided into three unequal parts. The first part will consist of ten brief passages to identify and discuss; the second will consist of twenty factual questions from the reading and lectures; the third will consist of three short essays from a list of topics to be determined by the class at our final regular meeting. The exam will be held on Wednesday, December 12, from 8 to 11 am.
GRADING
Each of the two papers and the final examination will count as 30% of the final course grade. The remaining 10% will be for the quality of your participation in section and the quality of your journal entries. The overall course grade, not simply the participation grade, will be lowered for missing journals and/or unexcused absences. As mentioned above, failure to turn in at least six of the ten journals will result in a failing course grade, as will similarly poor attendance.
PLAGIARISM
Submitting as your own work written even in part by someone else is plagiarism and will result, when detected, in automatic failure in the course and notification of the Dean of Students Office for possible additional disciplinary action. This rule applies as much to journal entries as to papers. To avoid problems, please mark all quotations and identify their source. You should also identify the source of ideas that come from someone else even when they have been put into your own words.
