Masterworks of English Syllabus for 2011-2012
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Instructor
Daniel Ferguson (Curriculum Vitae)Office Location
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Course
ENGL-2323-001 Masterworks of English
Prerequisites
ENGL 1302-minimum grade of C or Department Chair consent
Course Description
Principal works of major English writers from Blake through Auden.
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Hours
(3 sem hrs; 3 lec)
Class Type
On Campus Course
Syllabus Information
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume 2, 8th Edition.
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Student Performance
1. Discuss and interpret works of literature presented in class using appropriate literary terms.
2. Write analyses of literary works using primary and secondary sources in correct MLA Style.
3. Demonstrate skills in analytical reading, thinking, and writing.
Students Rights and Responsibilities
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Expected Student Behavior
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INSTRUCTOR CLASS POLICIES AND PROCEDURES:
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Be here, and be here on time. Absences are particularly serious for reading classes.
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Find someone the first class meeting or two to exchange phone numbers with; if you must be absent, keep up with the reading assignments by telephoning a classmate or me. There is no make-up for reading quizzes if you don’t call or email me.
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I encourage you to form small study groups, especially before major exams. The more discussion from several points of view, the better the results on exams (usually).
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This is going to be a discussion class, so come prepared: read all assigned material, take notes, jot down comments and questions as you read. We will devote the first 5 to 10 minutes of every class for questions, comments (likes and dislikes), whining.
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I require everyone’s participation in group assignments. Some of these exercises will count as quiz grades.
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Do not hesitate to email me or come by my office to talk with me about anything related to the class.
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English Department Plagiarism Policy (Revised January, 2009):
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Plagiarism: According to the Amarillo College Student Code of Conduct, plagiarism is the "appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another's work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one's own written work."
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According to the Amarillo College Student Code of Conduct, is the ppropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another's work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in ones own written work.
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Misdocumented Plagiarism:
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1. Using someone else's exact words that are quoted but not cited or cited but not quoted.
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3. Incomplete or missing Works Cited entries.
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Misdocumented plagiarism will receive a maximum 50 percent deduction for the first offense, and the student will be required to meet with the instructor.
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Undocumented Plagiarism:
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1. Using someone else's exact words that are neither quoted nor cited.
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2. Paraphrasing someone else's words without citing them.
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3. Using someone else's research without citing it.
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Undocumented plagiarism will receive a minimum penalty of 50 percent for the first time and 100 percent off for all subsequent infractions. The student will be required to meet with the instructor and the English Department Chair.
Grading Criteria
Quizzes 25%
Exams 25%
Response Papers 25%
Research Paper 25%
90-100="A," 80-89="B," 70-79="C," 60-69="D," Below 60="F"
Find someone the first class meeting or two to exchange phone numbers with; if you must be absent, keep up with the reading assignments by telephoning a classmate or me. There is no make-up for reading quizzes unless you contact me before the next class after your absence.
Attendance
Attendance in a literature course, particularly one such as ours that is heavy on discussion, is extremely important. You may find it difficult to pass the course with more than two absences. Be sure to contact me immediately as soon as you know you will be absent.
Calendar
Week 1 Introduction, Syllabus, Writing Sample / Romanticism and William Blake Lecture
Week 2 Songs of Innocence / Songs of Experience
Week 3 Songs of Experience Continued / Response Paper
Week 4 Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron Lecture / "Simon Lee" and "The Thorn"
Week 5 "We Are Seven" and "Resolution and Independence" / "Tintern Abbey"
Week 6 "My Heart Leaps Up" and "Intimations Ode" / Response Paper
Week 7 Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" and "Dejection: An Ode" / "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Week 8 Byron's Manfred Act I / Act II
Spring Break
Week 9 Act III/ Romantics Exam
Week 10 Victorian England, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Ernest Dowson, and Bernard Shaw Lecture / Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess"
Week 11 "Fra Lippo Lippi" / Arnold's "The Buried Life" and "Memorial Verses"
Week 12 "Lines Written in Kensington Gardens" and "Dover Beach" / Research Paper Assignment Discussion, Dowson's "Cynara" and "They Are Not Long"
Week 13 Mrs Warren's Profession Acts 1 and 2 / Acts 3 and 4
Week 14 20th Century, Yeats, Eliot, and Auden / Yeats's "The Second Coming" and "Lapis Lazuli"
Week 15 Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Research Paper Due / Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening" and "The Unknown Citizen"
Final Exam
(Class times highlighted in yellow will meet on the second floor of the library.)
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