Fall 2006 English 2328 Syllabus
INSTRUCTOR: Douglas Rowlett, Ph.D.
TELEPHONE: 713-718-6768 (office --voice mail)
COURSE URL: http://swc3.hccs.edu:8900
INTERNET E-MAIL: doug.rowlett@hccs.edu
PERSONAL HOME PAGE:http://swc2.hccs.edu/rowhtml/paradox.htm
TEXTBOOKS: The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 6th ed., vols. C, D, & E.
Griffiths, Kelley. Writing Essays About Literature. 6th ed.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Garden of Eden
McCarthy, Cormac. All The Pretty Horses
Rice, Anne. Interview With The Vampire
NOTE: The Norton Anthology and Reading and Responding to Literature are available at any HCCS campus bookstore. The other three texts are novels and should be available at any good bookstore in the Houston area or may be checked out from the HCCS library or any public library. You may find it especially helpful to check bookstores that sell used books. Used books generally cost much less than new ones.
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GRADE RECORD:
40% FOUR ESSAY EXAMS (including the final exam)
30% THE RESEARCH PAPER
30% AVERAGE OF JOURNAL GRADES
POLICY
1. ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE TURNED IN ON TIME FOR FULL CREDIT. LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE PENALIZED 10 POINTS IF THEY ARE 1 TO 7 DAYS LATE AND 20 POINTS IF THEY ARE 8 TO 14 DAYS LATE. NO ASSIGNMENTS MORE THANTWO WEEKS LATE WILL BE ACCEPTED.
2. I WILL NOT DROP A STUDENT FOR EXCESSIVE ABSENCES. THEREFORE, DO NOT ASSUME YOU WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DROPPED IF YOU DECIDE TO STOP CHECKING INTO THE SYSTEM. IF YOU WISH TO DROP THIS CLASS YOU MUST DO SO OFFICIALLY. IF YOU STOP CHECKING INTO THE SYSTEM AND FAIL TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALLY, YOUWILL RECEIVE A GRADE IN THE COURSE.
3. YOU MUST SUBMIT A WEEKLY JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT EVERY MONDAY BY 12 MIDNIGHT -- THAT'S MONDAY NIGHT AT 11:59:59 PLUS ONE SECOND. REMEMBER -- THE COMPUTER TELLS ME THE EXACT TIME YOU SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES. LATE ENTRIES WILL BE PENALIZED 10 POINTS. IN ADDITION, YOU MUST PARTICIPATE IN REQUIRED READER RESPONSES. FAILURE TO KEEP UP YOUR END ON READER RESPONSES WILL RESULT IN A 20-POINT PENALTY PER ASSIGNMENT.
4. YOU MUST TURN IN A 2500-WORD RESEARCH PAPER BY THE DATE NOTED ON THE COURSE CALENDAR. YOUR TOPIC MUST BE ONE APPROVED BY YOUR INSTRUCTOR, AND YOU CANNOT PASS THIS COURSE IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT A RESEARCH PAPER.
5. THE FINAL EXAM FOR THIS COURSE IS MANDATORY. FAILURE TO TAKE THE FINAL WILL RESULT IN AN F FOR THE SEMESTER.
6. ALL STUDENTS MUST DO THEIR OWN WORK, AND PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. ANY STUDENT CAUGHT CHEATING ON AN EXAM OR PLAGIARIZING A PAPER IN THIS COURSE WILL RECEIVE AN IMMEDIATE ZERO ON THE PAPER IN QUESTION AND AN IMMEDIATE F IN THE COURSE. I WILL ALSO RECOMMEND TO THE DEAN EXPULSION FROM THE COLLEGE. YOU CHEAT, YOU FLUNK -- NO OPTIONS, NO EXCUSES. THE RISKS AREN'T WORTH IT -- DO YOUR OWN WORK!
(Additional assignments and changes to this calendar may be made during the semester)
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:
August 26 -- Classes begin
September 4 -- Labor Day -- HCCS holiday
November 9 -- Last day to withdraw
November 23-26-- Thanksgiving -- HCCS holiday
December 4 – Research Paper due
December 8 – Final exam due
WEEK 1: August 26-September 1
Introduction to class and course. Preliminary check-in to system and familiarization with uploading and downloading.
ASSIGNMENT: Read in the Course Content section under "Introduction and Class Materials" all files pertaining to this course. Familiarize yourself with class procedures and requirements. Feel free to copy and print any of the information files.
Read "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" by Mark Twain.
First journal assignment due Monday of Week 2 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 2: September 4-8 (Sept. 5 HCCS holiday)
ASSIGNMENT: Read "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Second journal assignment due Monday of Week 3 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 3: September 11-15
ASSIGNMENT: Read "The Open Boat," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," and "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane.
Begin preparing for the first essay exam.
Third journal assignment due Monday of Week 4 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 4: September 18-23
FIRST ESSAY EXAM. Download your exam, follow the instructions, and upload your completed essay exam by Monday of Week 5 at 12 midnight.
ASSIGNMENT: Read "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "After Apple Picking," "Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Design," and "Provide, Provide" by Robert Frost.
Fourth journal assignment due Monday of Week 5 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 5: September 25-29
ASSIGNMENT: Read "The Snow Man," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Sunday Morning," "Anecdote of the Jar," and "The Idea of Order at Key West," by Wallace Stevens.
Fifth journal assignment due Monday of Week 6 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 6: October 2-6
ASSIGNMENT: Read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" by T. S.Eliot.
Sixth journal assignment due Monday of Week 7 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 7: October 9-13
ASSIGNMENT: Read "in Just-," "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls," "Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal," "i sing of Olaf glad and big," and "pity this busy monster, manunkind" by e. e. cummings (yes, the strange capitalization is correct!).
Seventh journal assignment due Monday of Week 8 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 8: October 16-20
SECOND ESSAY EXAM: Download your exam, follow the instructions, and upload your completed essay exam by Monday of Week 9 at 12 midnight.
ASSIGNMENT: Read "Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Begin reading The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway, if you have not already done so.
Eighth journal assignment (over Fitzgerald only) due Monday of Week 9 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 9: October 23-27
ASSIGNMENT: Finish reading The Garden of Eden.
Ninth journal assignment (over the entire Hemingway novel) due Monday of Week 10 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 10: October 30-November 3
ASSIGNMENT: Read "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and "Second Air Force" by Randall Jarrell, "The Truth the Dead Know," and "Sylvia's Death," by Anne Sexton, and "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath.
Tenth journal assignment due Monday of Week 11 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 11: November 6-10
THIRD ESSAY EXAM: Download your exam, follow the instructions, and upload your completed essay exam by Monday of Week 12 at 12 midnight.
ASSIGNMENT: Read "The Life You Save May be Your Own" and "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor.
Read "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
Eleventh journal assignment due Monday of Week 12 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 12: November 13-17
ASSIGNMENT: Read All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
Twelfth journal assignment due Monday of Week 13 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 13: November 20-24 (November 23-26 HCCS Thanksgiving Holiday)
ASSIGNMENT: Begin reading Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice.
Thirteenth journal assignment (over first half of the novel) due Monday of Week 14 by 12 midnight.
WEEK 14: November 27-December 1
ASSIGNMENT: Finish reading Interview With the Vampire.
Fourteenth journal assignment (over the second half of the novel) due Monday of Week 15 by 12 midnight.
RESEARCH PAPERS DUE MONDAY OF WEEK 15 BY 12 MIDNIGHT!
Week 15: December 4-8
PREPARE FOR FINAL EXAM AND TURN IN ALL LATE WORK:
You will take your final exam exactly as you have taken your other exams, i.e., download the exam from our server and then upload your essay to me. However, note that it is due by midnight FRIDAY December 8. All late work is due at that time and absolutely NO late work will be accepted after midnight of the 8th.
