English 10AC Syllabus - E. Freudenthal Winter 2005
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[edit] Overview
[edit] Introduction
English 10, Introduction to Literary Study: American Identities and Global Crisis
Winter 05 * TR 9-10:40 * SH 2635 * EC 55087
Instructor Elizabeth Freudenthal
CONTACT ME:
Office hours: Thursday 11-1 and by appt. in the ACGC, SH 2710
Office: South Hall 3432 N (South Hall’s Graduate Tower)
Email: freuden@umail.ucsb.edu (please beware of spelling)
Mailbox: South Hall 2630
How to Read Smart
Introduction to Literary Study should do exactly what it advertises: teach beginning English majors or interested GE-fillers how to read, how to think about what you read, how to write about what you read, how to think about what you write, how to read about what you think, how to write about what you think you can read about thinking, and how to fight evildoers.
This version of English 10 will also explore the construction of various cultural identities in America, including identities associated with gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, politics, religion, and profession. In particular, these courses will consider these identities in the context of various kinds of global crisis. These courses will thus “internationalize” American identities, examining how these identities have frequently drawn on debates and intellectual trends developing within and outside the U.S. At the same time, these classes will consider analyses (from the U.S. and abroad) regarding the impact and significance of American identities as they circulate in other countries during times of crisis.
[edit] Required Texts
Monkey Bridge, by Lan Cao, available in the UCSB or IV bookstores.
Sputnik Sweetheart, by Murakami Haruki, available in the UCSB or IV bookstores.
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, available in the UCSB or IV bookstores.
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, available in the UCSB or IV bookstores.
A class reader, available Tuesday at the Associated Students Publications Service, UCen room 1531 next to the MCC. Call 893-4471 with any questions.
[edit] Attendance, tardiness, participation
(we meet only 20 times, so show up, people!):
Now and for the rest of college, show up on time having completed the assignment and found something to say about it.
You are allowed to miss class once, for any reason you want, without telling me (try saving it for illness or emergency.) For every unexcused subsequent absence, your attendance score will go down a grade, and after five absences you will fail the class.
Late people will miss crucial information, miss quickwriting assignments, and tick me and their classmates off. After two times, lateness reduces your attendance grade by 1/3 each time.
I grade participation based on your active involvement in class discussions and assignments, effort put into drafts and revisions, amount of time you visit me in my office, your willingness to clean my house and maintain my car, and the chutzpah you display in completing these tasks for me.
[edit] Assignments
Every day: 5-10 minutes of in-class writing, responding to a topic given at 9:00. This writing will help you transition into class time, recollect and reflect on that days’ reading assignments, and explore possible paper and presentation topics. This in-class writing will also serve as my way to take role, check participation, and read the thoughts of otherwise quiet members of class.
Extra Credit: You may attend a campus event that analytically addresses U.S. culture and write a 2 page critical response to it for extra credit, due any time. More info about these opportunities will follow in class.
Papers: due in my hands, at the beginning of class, on (not after!) their due date, complete assignments will follow in class:
Essay 1, due Jan. 18; a 3-4 page close reading
Essay 2, due Feb. 8; a 3-4 page close reading of poetry
Essay 3, due March 1; a 6-7 page research essay
Essay 3.5, due March 16; a 8-10 page revision and expansion of Essay 3
•Late papers will receive 1/3 of a grade off for every day they’re late, including weekends.
•If you cannot attend class the day a paper is due, you must email the paper to me before class time and hand in a hard copy as soon as you can. Otherwise the paper will be considered late.
[edit] Final Grade Breakdown
Essay 1: 15%
Essay 2: 20%
Essay 3: 20%
Essay 3.5: 25%
Attendance: 10%
Participation: 10%
You must complete and submit all work to pass this class.
Plagiarism policy:
The English Department, Summer Sessions, and UCSB at large have no tolerance for plagiarism. If you use the words or ideas of others without proper citation of your source, you may be suspended or expelled from the university. Scientists have proven that plagiarism will turn your brain cells into styrofoam. Plagiarism is easy to spot and check, so don’t test me.
Writing Help:
Please take advantage of the resources available at CLAS, Campus Learning Assistance Services. You get an hour of free writing tutoring every week, by appointment or just dropping in. They also offer language, math, science and other tutoring. Call them for information at 893-3269 or drop in at Building 477.
NOTE: If you are student with a disability and would like to discuss special academic accommodations, please contact me during office hours.
[edit] Course Schedule
- Schedule is tentative and subject to change. It omits research and reference reading assignments to be given later in class.
- When poetry is due, please read all poems, choose one or two per poet, and reread them with focus and attention. Poems, short stories and essays are in the reader.
- Please bring all questions about reading and writing assignments to the instructor as soon as possible.
Jan 4: Introductions
Jan 6: Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami, through Ch 8
Jan 11: Murakami, Ch 8 to end
Jan 13: “This Blessed House” by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jan 18: Essay 1 due!!!!
Jan 20: Monkey Bridge, by Lan Cao, through Ch 6
Jan 25: Cao to end
Jan 27: “Differences,” by Jeffrey Nealon and Susan Searls Giroux
Feb 1: Poems by Eavan Boland and Adrienne Rich
Feb 3: Poems by Amiri Baraka
Feb 8: Essay 2 due!!!!
Feb 10: The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, Ch 1-4 (“Abilash Talkies”)
Feb 15: Roy, Ch 5-10 (“The Rider in the Boat”)
Feb 17: Roy to end
Feb 22: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, Foreword and Part 1
Feb 24: Nabokov, Part 2 and Afterword
Mar 1: Essay 3 due!!!
Mar 3: “Noises in the Blood,” by George Lipsitz
Mar 8: “Feral Lazers,” by Gerald Vizenor
Mar 10: “X ≠ Y,” by Susan Daitch AND “Captivity,” by Sherman Alexie
Mar 16: Essay 3.5 and all extra credit due
Reading and writing assignments are due on the day indicated on this handy chart.
Schedule is tentative and subject to change!
[edit] Week 1
Jan 4: Introductions
Jan 6: Murakami Ch 1-8
[edit] Week 2
Jan 11: Murakami to end
Jan 13: Lahiri
[edit] Week 3
Jan 18: Essay 1 due
Jan 20: Cao Ch 1-6
[edit] Week 4
Jan 25: Cao to end
Jan 27: Nealon and Giroux
[edit] Week 5
Feb 1: Boland AND Rich
Feb 3: Baraka
[edit] Week 6
Feb 8: Essay 2 due
Feb 10: Roy Ch 1-4
[edit] Week 7
Feb 15: Roy Ch 5-10
Feb 17: Roy to end
[edit] Week 8
Feb 22: Nabokov Foreword and Part 1
Feb 24: Nabokov Part 2 and Afterword
[edit] Week 9
Mar 1: Essay 3 due
Mar 3: Lipsitz
[edit] Week 10
Mar 8: Vizenor
Mar 10: Alexie AND Daitch
[edit] Finals Week
March 16: Essay 3.5 due
