Sample syllabus for ENG 298: World Literature Survey II w/ MC/Div Flag

ENG 298: World Literature After1650

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I. Course Description (as printed in the Catalog):

A study of world literature in translation from the 17th century to the present day. Prerequisite: ENG 112.

III. Textbook(s) and/or materials required

The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition, Package 2, (1650 to Present). New York:

Norton, 2003. ISBN: 0-393-92454-8.

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin, 2003.

ISBN: 0140449175.

IV. Course Objectives

This course develops: knowledge in the humanities; critical reading, thinking, and writing skills; the ability to contextualize readings historically, politically, ideologically, and within literary tradition; an understanding of diverse cultural perspectives, past and present.

V. Relationship to outcomes of the General Education Curriculum

English 298 may be used to fulfill the English requirement in the Humanities Area of Inquiry in the General Education Curriculum. English majors may use this course to fulfill the comparative literature requirement. This course also addresses the college’s general education objectives in the following areas: reading, cultural awareness, writing, and higher-level reasoning.

VI. Course Outline

1/15 First day of class: Introduction to the 17th century

1/20 Restoration lyric poetry (handout)

1/22 Selections from 17th century Japanese literature

1/27 Voltaire, Candide

1/29 Candide

2/3 Selected Romantic lyrics (Wordsworth and Coleridge)

2/5 Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades

2/10 Charles Baudelaire, selections from Flowers of Evil

2/12 Ghalib, selections

2/17 Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

2/19 Anna Karenina

2/24 Anna Karenina

2/26 Edmund Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

3/3 Cyrano de Bergerac

3/5 Midterm

3/10 Sigmund Freud, from “Dora”

3/12 Marcel Proust, from Remembrance of Things Past

3/17 spring break

3/19 spring break

3/24 James Joyce, “The Dead”

3/26 Virginia Woolf, from “A Room of One’s Own”

3/31 Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”

4/2 T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

4/7 T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

4/9 Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”

4/14 Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”

4/16 Pablo Neruda, selected lyrics

4/21 Doris Lessing, “The Old Chief Mshlanga”

4/23 Mahasweta Devi, “Breast-Giver”

4/28 Derek Walcott, Omeros

4/30 Derek Walcott, Omeros

VII. Methods of Evaluation (describing methods used in arriving at final grade and weighting of course requirements)

1) Quizzes: I will give regular announced and unannounced quizzes. Some of these quizzes may be take-home; others will be completed in class. Quizzes will cover lectures and readings.

2) Examinations: You will take two exams, a Midterm covering ancient literature and a Final covering medieval and Renaissance literature. Both exams will have two sections: on the first, I will ask you to recall and define key terms and dates from lectures and readings; on the second, I will ask you to identify, locate, and analyze key passages from readings.

2) Papers: You will write three short (fewer than 6 pp) papers for this class. These papers will be literary analyses: you will make arguments about the texts we have read, supporting your arguments with textual evidence.

Grading Breakdown: Grade Scale:

Midterm 20% A 93-100

Final 20% ABB 88-92

Paper 1 5% B 83-87

Paper 2 10% BCC 78-82

Paper 3 15% C 70-77

Attendance 15% D 60-70

Quizzes 15% F below 60

VIII. Attendance Policy (if any; specify any relationships between attendance and overall evaluation)

Your attendance and participation in class is very important. I try to structure our class discussions to encourage your participation, and you may contribute in a variety of ways, from asking and answering questions, to taking part in small-group activities, to engaging in in-class writing exercises. At the end of the semester, I will evaluate the total quality and quantity of your participation in class. While I expect you to attend all classes, I allow four unexcused absences. Missing class in excess of this number could cause you to lose points from your final Attendance grade in the class.

IX. Academic Honesty is governed by the Georgetown College Honor Code. According to the Georgetown College Student Handbook, Honor Code Infractions include cheating, stealing, and lying related to academic matters. I will deal with any infractions using the Procedures outlined in the Handbook.

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