Gibson's World literature II Syllabus—Spring 2004

Course: English 2333

Instructor: Teresa Gibson

Office and Office Hours: South  210   12:00-1:30p.m. M&W, 1:40-2:50p.m. T&T

Phone: 544-8239 (department) ex. 6210  Home phone 546-2920

Email: Tgibson488@aol.com, gibson@utb1.utb.edu

Prerequisites: Composition I and II

Description: English 2333 is a survey of Western world literature from the Enlightenment to the present

  Objective: To introduce the students to the authors  that have had the greatest influence on our culture, to foster critical skills, to improve writing skills

 Text: The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Seventh edition, Volume II

 Absences: Class attendance is required.  Two late arrivals count as one absence.  Any early departure should be cleared with instructor before class. Any unapproved early departures will constitute an absence. 

Exams: Two exams of equal value—the second given during the scheduled final period

Quizzes: Average of quizzes is the equivalent of two exams. Twenty points will be deducted from any make up quiz or any quiz followed by an early departure.

Research:  One research paper of approximately one thousand words on an historical or sociological aspect of an approved  literary work written after 1650 A.D. requiring six sources and using MLA documentation

  Late work: C- will be the highest-grade late work can receive.  No late work will be accepted during the last two weeks of the semester.

Disabilities: Students with disabilities, including learning disabilities, who wish to request academic adjustments in this class should notify the Disability Services Office early in the semester so that the appropriate accommodations may be made.  In accordance with federal law, a student requesting academic adjustments must provide documentation of his/her disability to the Disability Services counselor.  For more information, call or visit the Counseling Center at Tandy 205 (956-544-8292  

Electronic devices: All cell phones and pagers must be turned off during class on pain of eviction.                               

Evaluation and Grades:   

Participation and quizzes       --40%

Research                          --20%

Exams                             --40%                                                    

On successfully completing the course students will be able to

• identify familiar authors and their works from ancient civilizations through the Renaissance.
• explain how literature is related to history, the arts, philosophy and psychology.
• demonstrate meaningful connections between literature and their own lives.
• identify and analyze various genres of written expression.
• demonstrate the diversity of human thought and expression found in literature.
• analyze the effectiveness of literary techniques and devices in evoking various responses from readers.
• use the internet and the library for research.
• document sources using MLA.
• use a word processor for composing and revising.

                                 Tentative Schedule TT

8/24    Introduction to class and Historical orientation /

8/26 Video: Christianity : The 2nd Millennium 

8/31 Tartuffe Video and Moliere pp. 1-10/ Tartuffe pp.11-68  

9/2   Tartuffe video continued /

9/7 Quiz on Introduction to Masterpieces of the Enlightenment and Tartuffe  

9/9 Lecture on de la Fayette & The Princess of Cleves pp. 69-160  

9/14 Quiz and discussion on de la Fayette & The Princess of Cleves pp. 69-160

Click here for the Sor Juana  Ines de la Cruz Project

9/16  Quiz on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and "Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz" pp. 202-228

9/21 Video Lecture on Voltaire and God  

9/23 Quiz on Voltaire's Candide   pp. 315-378  

9/28  Quiz on Masterpieces of the 19th century, Varieties of Romanticism pp. 417-429 /

          Quiz and discussion on Rousseau and Confessions Part I  

9/30   Video (to be arranged)  

10/5            pp.429-438  /William Blake pp. 540-9"The Lamb" , "The Tyger"   ,

"The Chimney Sweeper,"   "Mock on, Mock on", "And Did Those Feet" "The Garden of Love" (a handout) Click here for William Blake Archives./ William Wordsworth pp. 549-52 "Tintern Abbey""The World Is Too With Us" p.560

10/7  Samuel Coleridge pp.586-590--"Kubla Khan"  

Percy Shelley pp.593--"England in 1819" p.595

 John Keats pp.599-602--"On First Reading Chapman's Homer,  "Bright Star,"   "Ode on Melancholy" p.607 / Robert Browning pp.682-85 “My Last Duchess”

 Alfred Lord Tennyson pp. 686-7, Sections 27 & 96 of In Memoriam A.H.H. p. 700 and handout /  Walt Whitman pp. 753-765, Emily Dickinson pp. 823-831

10/12 Quiz on poetic terminology/ Midterm due

10/14  Quiz and discussion on Anton Chekhov and "The Lady with the Dog" pp.1281-1298

10/19Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabbler pp. 1222-1281     /

10/21 Hedda Gabbler continued

 10/26Quiz on Ibsen/ Gustave Flaubert's / Madame Bovary video

10/28 Quiz on Madame Bovary pp.846-920

11/2 Quiz on Madame Bovary  pp.921-994

11/4 Quiz on  Madame Bovary 995-1063

11/9 Quiz and discussion on Franz Kafka and "The Metamorphosis" pp.1686-1724/    Albert Camus and "The Guest"pp.1868-1880

11/11Quiz and discussion on James Joyce and "The Dead" 1582-1615

11/16 RESEARCH PAPER DUE/Video on Virginia Woolf “  

11/18 Quiz and discussion on Virginia Woolf pp. 1615-28

11/23 Quiz and discussion on  

 Alexander Solzhenitsyn and "Matryona's Home" pp. 1970-20 00/Quiz and discussion on Doris Lessing and “The Old Chief Mshlanga”” pp. 2001-2013  

11/25  Quiz and discussion on Jorge Luis Borges and “The Garden of the Forking Path” pp.. 1905-1914  / Quiz and discussion on

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez and "Death Constant Beyond Love" pp.2051-2060  

11/30 Quiz on Alice Munro and "Walker Brothers Cowboy" and Leslie Marmon Silko and "Yellow Woman"

12/2 Excerpt from Oscar Casares Brownsville (to be arranged)

12/6-12/13  Final Exams:

Take home essay  and Multiple choice  section on Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart pp. 2060-2153   

9/16  Video Lecture on Voltaire and God