Course Description
Exploration of selected topics in literature in English after 1800. Notes: May be repeated once for credit when topic changes.
Syllabus
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
- The ability to incorporate research into a print or digital project.
- The ability to understand and implement a literary or rhetorical theories.
- To identify, discuss, and debate the salient characteristics of modernist literary works.
Course Grading Information:
| Activity/Performance Measure | Percentage/Points |
|---|---|
| Participation | 20% |
| Written Projects | 60% |
| Oral Projects | 20% |
Grading Scale for the Course
| Percentage | Letter Grade |
|---|---|
| 93.0 and above | A |
| 90.0 – 92.9 | A- |
| 87.0 – 89.9 | B+ |
| 83.0 – 86.9 | B |
| 80.0 – 82.9 | B- |
| 77.0 – 79.9 | C+ |
| 73.0 – 76.9 | C |
| 70.0 – 72.9 | C- |
| 67.0 – 69.9 | D+ |
| 63.0 – 66.9 | D |
| 60.0 – 62.9 | D- |
| Below 60.0 | F |
Attendance/Participation:
Participation is your active, engaged contribution to every aspect of this class. Participation includes your timely submission of assignments, your vocal and written responses to readings and in-class discussions, and your commitment to large- and small-group collaborations. Collaboration with peers is an especially important part of the class, so you should strive to contribute to your classmates’ academic growth as well as your own, and strive to fulfill your part in creating a vibrant intellectual community. Because participation is so essential, you are expected to attend every class when you are healthy enough to do so.
Your presence and participation are critical on draft workshop days because your peers are reliant on your engaged feedback on their writing.
Course Materials Purchased by the Students:
- Benjamin, Ruha. Imagination: A Manifesto. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. ISBN: 9781324020974
- Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower. Hatchet Book Group, 2019. ISBN: 9781538732182
- Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. HarpersCollins, 2002. ISBN: 9780060080846
- Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. DC Comics, 2019. ISBN: 9781779501127
Scholarly Perspectives
This course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.