UNDER CONSTRUCTION
MWF Grainger 16. Dr. Lund (home page)
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature,
Volume II, Seventh Edition. ed. M. H. Abrams et al.;
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (in installments to be provided--do
not
buy a text!)
Course Objectives: An understanding of our cultural heritage as revealed in literature, its movements and traditions.
August 25: Introduction: Brown vs. Board of Education
27: Great Expectations (part 1)
29: William Blake, from Songs of Innocence & Experience
September 1: Labor Day; no class
3: Great Expectations (parts 2, 3)
5: William Wordsworth, from Lyrical Ballads
8: Dorothy Wordsworth, from Journals
10:
9: W. Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage"
11: Coleridge, "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner"
14: Trollope 10-15
16: Mary Wollstonecraft, from The Rights of Women
18: Sir Walter Scott, "The Two Drovers"
21: Exam part 1: short answer
23: Exam part 2: essay
25: Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
28: Trollope 16-21
30: Bryon, Manfred
October 2: Mary Shelley, "Transformation"
5: Trollope 22-27
7: Keats, "Lamia"
9: Keats, the Odes; Paper Due
* Fall Break *
14: Trollope, 28-33
16: Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach," Culture and Anarchy
19: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh
21 Tennyson, from The Princess, In Memoriam
23: Trollope, 34-39
26: Tennyson, from Idylls of the King
28: Robert Browning, the dramatic monologue
30: Trollope, 40-45
November 2: Browning, cont.
4: George Eliot, from The Mill on the Floss
6: George Meredith, Modern Love
9: Exam part 1: short answer
11: Exam part 2: essay
13: Trollope, 46-51
16: Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Culture,
Agnosticism and Christianity
18: Christina Rosetti, lyrics
20: Trollope, 52-57
23: Paper Due
* Thanksgiving *
30: William Morris, "The Defense of Guenevere"
December 2: Gerald Manley Hopkins
4: Trollope, 58-60 (April 1864)
7: Review
9: Final Exam: 8:00-10:30
Course Requirements: read the material listed below for discussion on the dates shown (200 points); write one short critical paper (100 points); write one longer paper including historical and critical sources (150 pints); write two essay exams on material read and discussed in class (200 points); write an essay final exam on the material of the course (150 pints). Unannounced quizzes will be given to determine if the reading is being done on time; the average of these quizzes is worth 200 points. You should save all returned written work from the course for one semester. Grading scale: 90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D; less than 60%=F.
Attendance Policy: The attendance policy for this course is the same as the college policy in the College Catalog and the Student Handbook. Unexcused absences for more than 10% of classes may lower a final grade one letter. Absence, excused and/or unexcused, from more than 25% of classes may be an automatic F in the course.
Honor Code: Students are expected to abide by the college Honor Code.
Inclement Weather: If the college closes for inclement weather, students should continue work as outlined above.