ࡱ> QSP` 2bjbj 1F*%zzzzHHH8,!z:"000    !!!!!!!$#ho%2!#  ##2!z  00G!#d00 !# !(0 zYW>HVH]!0! !&d!&(!&( hTY   2!2!A^   !####HHzzz  English 174: Literature, Self and Society Dr. Allison Heisch ǶƵ Office: FO 107 Spring 2007 Telephone: 924-4434 E-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:heisch@gmail.com" heisch@gmail.com Office Hours: Mon 7:00-7:30 & 10:30-11:30 by appointment Online,up-to-date course information: to register, go to  HYPERLINK "http://www.schoolnotes.com" www.schoolnotes.com and enter the ǶƵ zip code (95192). You will be able to enter your email address and receive alerts every time information is posted on the site. This course is listed at 95192 as AHEng174. Through your registration, you will be able to keep current with this class. In addition to the green sheet, all information regarding the day-to-day business of the course will be posted on the course site I will often use the site to make general comments on issues that come up in class or to alert you to events and things of potential interest to the class. Links to additional readings or articles will also be posted on the site. The course is also listed at  HYPERLINK "http://www.turnitin.com" www.turnitin.com You will receive instructions and the code number to register there in class. The course grade book will be kept on that site. Prerequisite/s: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of or concurrent enrollment in a 100W course. If you need to review fundamentals of grammar, this is not the right course for you. Required Books: Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Yann Martel, Life of Pi Barack Obama Dreams from My Father Flannery OConnor, A Good Man is Hard to Find . . .. Andrew X. Pham, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories Mark Salzman, True Notebooks David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Carolyn See, There Will Never Be Another You Course Description: This is an upper division course for people who like to read and readers who like to write. It satisfies ǶƵs upper division Self & Society requirement. 1The catalog describes it as a course on literary works written throughout our national history that explore depictions of self, society, equality, and structured inequality. It promises texts that represent a diversity of ethnic, class, gender, historical, and regional backgrounds. ǶƵ students, who are often better acquainted with these issues than many of the faculty, are sometimes amused or insulted by this language. Nevertheless, the course presents an opportunity to read some very good books in a way that also permits us to enjoy them as their authors intended: i.e. as books. The reading list for this semester includes three novels, three collections of short stories and three memoirs. About a third of the readings were on the fall semester English 174 reading list, and they have been retained at the suggestion of nearly all students in that class. A couple of the new works were suggested by students. Several are recently published. Two of the writers on the list this semester, Carolyn See and Khaled Hosseini will be giving public talks on campus this semester. Those events, both in March, are occasions for you to see and hear writers you are reading, and my expectation is that you will plan to attend their readings. Some of the readings will present multiple perspectives on similar subjects and historical events. Some will contemplate the world through prisms of race, religion, social class, geography, history, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. But importantly, none of the things we read will be about any of those things in any single-minded or polemical way. Instead, they will be about what it means to be alive and to live in the world. Course Content and Writing: The principal written product of this course will be a reader-response journal that reflects your thinking about the books and about issues that arise from reading and discussion. Additionally, in the first week of the semester I will ask you to write a two-page response to an essay by Francine Prose called Close Reading. It was published last June in the Atlantic Monthly. I will distribute copies of this essay in class and ask you to respond by writing a brief history of yourself as a reader. Your journal will ordinarily be due at the beginning of class the day we finish discussion of a book. You are responsible for writing a response to eight of the nine works on the list, beginning with Life of Pi. (That is: you have permission to skip one, for any reason whatever. You do not have permission not to read the work). I will accept late papers reluctantly, but I will not comment on them and I will note their lateness. Be aware that a pattern of late papers will drive your grade down. These essays should be a reflection of your thoughts and reactions rather than formal reviews of the books themselves. You should not, in other words, attempt to cover the book or demonstrate youve read it by summarizing the plot, but rather to allow it to evoke a reaction from you. One good way of doing that is to ask the most interesting question you can think of about the work and then try to answer it. The suggested minimum length of two pages is intended as a guide only. You may write more than two pages, but two very good pages will be sufficient. Although these are reader-response essays, thus reflective of immediate reaction to your reading, essays must be carefully written and proofread. Your essays should include the following information in the upper right hand corner: your name, the name or number of the course, my name, THE DATE of submission. All pages should be numbered. Your final examination will consist of a reflective essay on a topic distributed in advance. Reading: We will be reading a fair amount in the class, but the reading will (mainly) be pleasurable. The best thing you can do for your enjoyment of the course is to get a bit ahead of the assigned reading and to make notes, as ideas strike you, of things you might want to discuss in your journal essay. You should have completed your reading by the day we begin to discuss a book. Class Discussion: You should not participate in a discussion unless you have done the reading. During the first or second meeting of the class, students will elect to take responsibility for initiating discussion on individual works. Two students will be assigned (or assign themselves) to each text. Students should ideally work together to develop discussion points. It will be your responsibility to email your discussion ideas to me at least two days prior to the first class meeting so that I can post them for the class. I will participate in the discussion and answer questions (if I can), but my preference is not to dominate the discussion and certainly not to lecture. It is also my preference that you not sign up for a book you have already read. Grading and Evaluation: Course grades will be in the following way: 1) your presence and participation(25%); 2) the quality and timely submission of your reader-response journal (50%) ;3) leading class discussion (15%); 4) your final essay(10%). Your timely presence and participation during class will be noted daily and recorded. Assessing and Grading Your Reader Response Journal: I will write (or type) comments on journals and assign a number on a 1-10 scale (where 10 = perfection; 9 = very, very good; 8 = the general realm of Bhood; 7 = Cishness; and 6 =whoops! Anything less than 6 = real trouble.) I will return your essays to you as I read them, but --this is important --you must keep them together and re-submit them at the end of the course as a package: Writing regularly is the best way to become a better writer. I want to be able to credit improvement as well as steady effort. You can always come to an office hour, schedule a conference or simply or ask me how youre doing. I will try to give you an answer even though I do not usually think in terms of letter grades. Assessing and Grading Your Participation First, on the days when you are involved in leading discussion, I will be alert to the quality and timeliness of your discussion topics. If your questions arrive too late to be circulated before the class has an opportunity to read and think about them, they will not be useful and so will not count. Second, when you are participating, but not leading the discussion, I will pay attention to how well you listen to other people as well as to what you have to say. (Some students do not like to talk and some like to talk too much. Try to land in the middle of that continuum.) Attendance is (obviously) critical to participation. I will use your attendance record as one measure of participation. Arriving after class has begun is irritating and rude. If you are persistently late or frequently absent, you can expect at best a marginal grade in the course. General Advice: If you are having difficulty with any aspect of this course or if you have a personal emergency, you should contact me promptly. I will be helpful to you in any reasonable way, but it is your responsibility to alert me to the problem. If your schedule is such that you anticipate missing many classes, you should not enroll in this course. Cell phones and computers must be turned off. Caveat: Please keep a copy of any out of class written work you submit and retain all graded work until the end of the semester. Plagiarism, the submission of anothers work as ones own (in any sense), cheating of any kind, or the submission of work done for another class, will be dealt with according to university policy. Special Accommodation: Please see me if you have ADA issues of any kind. I will gladly arrange satisfactory accommodation for you. English Department Grading Policy All written work is assessed for quality and correctness on an A-F scale. You are responsible for reading this course syllabus. If you have questions about the class, read the syllabus before you raise them. Tentative Spring Semester 2007 (this schedule is subject to change ) English 174 Class Schedule Fall Semester 2006 1/24 Course Intro 2/5 -7TBA short story First written assignment Francine Prose Close Reading, Atlantic Monthly (Jun-July 2006) is due 2/5 2/21-4 Flannery OConnor TBA 2/19-21 Yann Martel Life of Pi 2/26-28 3/5-7 Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (3-7 Khaled Hosseini ) 3/12-14 3/19-21 Carolyn See, There Will Never Be Another You (3/22 Carolyn See: Center for Literary Arts) 4/2-4 Mark Salzman, True Notebooks 4/9-11 Barack Obama Dreams from My Father 4/16-18 Andrew Pham, Catfish and Mandela 4/23-25 4/30-5/2 Anne Proulx TBA 5/7-9 David Sedaris, Dress Your Family TBA 5/14 5/21 Final Exam     PAGE  PAGE 6 +* N c d 4 6 4 5 Z [ \ l m <J_o}IXth6OJQJjhOJQJUh0JOJQJjhOJQJUjhOJQJUh0J5OJQJ jh5OJQJUjh5OJQJUhh5OJQJhOJQJ4+e* ;<LMopIJvw222Pj-7@G ## %?%\&m& (4(x**++,&-'-.-o.../a/b/////0000*161X1h11122%2<2Q2f22222222寧jhUhh5OJQJmHnHuh5CJOJQJ h5h>*OJQJh0JOJQJhOJQJh5OJQJh6OJQJBOPlmde@J ## %?% (4(w*x*+++&-'-n. !n.o...a/b/// 0001050d0e0w0x000115161?1@1h111111122;2<2f2g2o2p22222222222222222222h]h&`#$222222222222222222h"0JmHnHu h0Jjh0JUjhUh222222/ 0/ =!"#$% DyK heisch@gmail.comyK 0mailto:heisch@gmail.comDyK www.schoolnotes.comyK 8http://www.schoolnotes.com/DyK www.turnitin.comyK 2http://www.turnitin.com/D@D NormalCJOJQJ_HmH sH tH d@d Heading 1$<@&(B*CJ$KH OJPJQJmH phsH u\@\ Heading 2$<@& B*OJPJQJmH phsH u\@\ Heading 3$<@& B*OJPJQJmH phsH uDA@D Default Paragraph FontVi@V  Table Normal :V 44 la (k@(No List 6U@6 Hyperlink >*B*ph\0@\ List Bulletdh#5B*OJPJQJmH phsH uT@T Header  ! 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