English Women Writers before 1800

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• The ability to read critically and discuss the aesthetic, rhetorical, or cultural qualities in texts.
• The ability to develop convincing, well-supported print or digital projects.
• The ability to understand the relationship of literature or rhetoric to history or culture.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Three in-class exams	20%
Reading Quizzes	5%
Writing Assignments	20%
Participation	15%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
98-100	A+
94-97	A
90-93	A-
87-89	B+
84-86	B
80-83	B-
77-79	C+
74-76	C
70-73	C-
67-69	D+
64-66	D
60-63	D-
59 or lower	F

Attendance/Participation:

Because in-class work and discussion is a significant component of your grade, it is crucial that you attend class and participate. Over the course of the semester, you may have three absences without any penalty or excuses required (you do not have to contact me about these absences).

Your final grade will be lowered one percentage point for each additional absence.

If you miss more than 6 classes during the semester, you will be dropped from the course.

Exceptions to this policy may be made for serious personal or medical problems with proper documentation, at the discretion of the professor.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Volume I: The Middle Ages and Renaissance through the Turn of the Century, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds.; 3rd edition
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary and the Wrongs of Woman
• The Book of Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley, ed.