State Fayetteville University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of English and Foreign Languages
I. Locator Information: Instructor: Dr. Kim Kirkpatrick Course # and Name: Engl 515, History of Criticism and Literary Theory Semester Credit Hours: 3 credit hours Total Contact Hours for Class: 3 hours Day and Time Class Meets: Th 6-8:30 p.m. Office Location: BU363C Office Phone: [phone] Office hours: T/Th 8:30-9:30 a.m.; 12:15-2 p.m.; and Thursdays 3:15-6 p.m. Email address: [e-mail] This syllabus is available for download at www.uncfsu.edu/english/syllabi.htm FSU Policy on Electronic Mail: Fayetteville State University provides to each student, free of charge, an electronic mail account ([e-mail]) that is easily accessible via the Internet. The university has established FSU email as the primary mode of correspondence between university officials and enrolled students. Inquiries and requests from students pertaining to academic records, grades, bills, financial aid, and other matters of a confidential nature must be submitted via FSU email. Inquiries or requests from personal email accounts are not assured a response. The university maintains open-use computer laboratories throughout the campus that can be used to access electronic mail. Rules and regulations governing the use of FSU email may be found at http://www.uncfsu.edu/PDFs/EmailPolicyFinal.pdf II. Course Description: This course will provide students with a familiarity with the traditional texts of Western literary theory and criticism. The second part of the course will concentrate on contemporary trends in literary theory, which are often reactions against more traditional notions. Often the course will introduce concepts that are, or seem to be, counterintuitive. III. Disabled Student Services: In accordance with Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ACA) of 1990, if you have a disability or think you have a disability to please contact the Center for Personal Development in the Spaulding Building, Room 155 (1st Floor); 910-672-1203. IV. Textbooks: The Critical Tradition, 3rd ed., David Richter, 2006, Bedford St. Martins V. Student Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Read and/or view a communication product; identify strategies and analyze the strategies used considering the intended audience, purpose and context. Analyze an assigned audience; offer an appropriate, clearly articulated and developed message for audience and purpose, considering constraints. Recognize when reasons have been given and when they have not. Identify correctly the conclusion and supporting reasons and evidence in written passages. Select appropriate communication channels (speech, email, report, phone call, brochure, etc.). Choose and implement appropriate technologies (PPT, web, handouts, posterboard displays, props, etc.). Use technology to enhance and reinforce rather than overshadow the content communicated. Choose an organizational strategy to assemble their material into a clear beginning, middle and end, the content/duration/style of which sections are adapted to purpose and audience OR appropriate to required format/genre. Be able to adjust a communication product for multiple situations (for example, create an oral presentation with extemporaneous elements based on a manuscript). Revise written communication so that 1) paragraphs have unified topics; 2) transitions between sections and paragraphs are appropriate to format or genre, audience, and purpose; 3) style is appropriate to audience and purpose. Share responsibility for creating texts with group members. Develop means for requesting audience feedback on, and assessing audience reaction to, speeches/presentations; use feedback to adjust strategies. Determine the reasonableness of supporting statements by appealin g to personal experience, testimony from eyewitnesses, experts, and background knowledge. Restate fairly and accurately points of view different from ones own. Assess arguments and supporting reasons and evidence according to explicitly stated standards, i.e., truth, relevance, sufficiency, and others. Reconsider their own point of view about specific issues by assessing the reasons and evidence for contrary points of view. Develop original conclusions or hypotheses appropriate to their major using various forms of evidence drawn from multiple sources. Demonstrate open-mindedness, fairness, honesty, intellectual curiosity, and other similar habits of mind in searching for reasons and evidence contrary to ones own point of view about specific issues. Are able to effectively formulate various kinds of questions based on an information need. Demonstrate how, when and why to apply library research techniques in library databases and the Internet.
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Understand and apply concepts of intellectual property and fair use. Students give credit for works used by citing and listing references. Students accept responsibility for their work and avoid plagiarism. Will be able to preserve, organize, sort, and retrieve information and documents. Students will be able to use appropriate technologies to present research findings in print, oral, and/or electronic formats. Understand how access to information and free expression of ideas are essential to a democratic society. Show self-discipline and responsibility in managing their academic priorities, e.g. in regular and punctual class attendance, timely submission of assignments, and mastery of course material. Are fair-minded in examining their own beliefs and practices and those that differ from their own.
VI. Course Requirements and Evaluation Criteria: Attendance Requirements Students are expected to attend all class meetings, laboratories, and other instructional sessions for all courses in which they are enrolled. Students are also expected to arrive to class on time and remain in class for the entire scheduled period. When students must miss class(es) for unavoidable reasons, i.e., illness, family emergencies, or participation in official university sponsored activities they are responsible for informing faculty of the reasons for the absences, in advance if possible, and completing all missed assignments. During the first half of the semester/term, faculty will assign an interim grade of EA, Excessive Absences, for students whose class absences exceed 10% of the total contact hours for the class. Students who receive EA interim grades must either withdraw from the class or resume attendance. Students who resume attendance must consult with the instructor about completion of missed assignments. The EA is not a final grade, so students who are assigned an interim grade of EA, but do not withdraw from the class, will receive a final grade based on the evaluation criteria for the class. Additional attendance polices for this class include: arriving excessively late to class or leaving class excessively early is counted as an absence. Missing more than 4 class hours will affect your final grade in that 4% will be deducted from your final grade for each class hour missed (past 4). If you should miss a class, you are still responsible for the material covered during that period and any reading or assignment given during that class. It is your responsibility to get class notes from another student. Do not email instructor about what you missed. Quizzes and participation cannot be made up after the fact. Grades will be determined using this grading system: A 90-100% B 80-90% C 70-80% D 60-70% F below 60% REVISION OF GRADES STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES The following revisions become effective on August 16, 2007. WN GRADE DISCONTINUED: WN - Withdrawal due to non-attendance - discontinued, effective August 16, 2007. STUDENTS: Do not expect faculty to withdraw you for non-attendance. Drop or withdraw* from classes according to the deadlines published in the catalog. *See warning below about class withdrawals. NEW TYPE OF GRADE: INTERIM GRADES (New name for midterm grade, with additional purposes). Interim grades will be assigned from the first week of the semester until the deadline for class withdrawals. Interim grades are used for informational and warning purposes only; they are not part of your permanent transcript and have no effect on your GPA. Instructors may assign interim grade of F to warn students of poor academic performance or they may assign X or EA grades. (See below for explanations) After midterm, faculty will assign all students an interim grade of A F to inform students of their academic status as of midterm. INTERIM GRADE X = NO SHOW Assigned to students who are on a class ro ster, but never attend class. For warning purposes only; NOT a final grade. STUDENTS: Check interim grades early in the semester. If you have an X grade, either begin attending the class or withdraw* from it. *See warning below about class withdrawals. If you do not take action in response to an X grade, you will receive a final grade of FN. (See FN below) INTERIM GRADE EA = EXCESSIVE ABSENCES - Assigned to students whose class absences exceed 10% of the total contact hours. For warning purposes only, NOT a final grade. STUDENTS: Check your interim grades often. If you have an EA grade for a class, you are in jeopardy of failure if you do not take immediate actions. Either resume attending the class or withdraw from it. *See warning below about class withdrawals. NEW FINAL GRADE: FN = FAILURE DUE TO NON-ATTENDANCE Assigned to students who are on class roster, but never attend the class. An FN grades is equivalent to an F grade in the calculation of the GPA. STUDENTS: You must attend (or withdraw* from) all the classes for which you are enrolled. *See warning below about class withdrawals. WARNING ABOUT CLASS WITHDRAWALS: When you withdraw from a class, you are wasting your money and time. You receive no refund for withdrawing from classes individual and you slow your progress toward degree completion. If you withdraw from or fail more than one-third of your classes, you will no longer be eligible for financial aid. STRIVE TO EARN CREDIT FOR ALL THE CLASSES IN WHICH YOU ENROLL; WITHDRAW FROM CLASSES ONLY WHEN IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!
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Assignments A hard copy of any paper, project, or take-home test is due on the due date at the beginning of class. Late work will receive a grade deduction. Always keep a copy of every assignment, whether on disk, computer, or hard copy. Never turn in an assignment by slipping it under my office door. If you must turn something in when I am not around, put it in my mailbox in BU123. If you submit any work on computer disk or by email, be sure to save it as an MSWord file. Emailed work must be in the form of an MSWord attachment. University computers cannot read Word Perfect or Lotus. Additionally, all papers must be submitted electronically to turnitin.com in order to receive a grade. Create a user account at www.turnitin.com. Class ID: 1350741; password: theory. Participation grade includes: additional written responses to assigned readings, pop quizzes, discussion during class, participation in small group breakout sessions, leading group discussions, active attention during class. Unannounced closed-book quizzes are always a possibility. Missed quizzes and written responses cannot be made up. You may reschedule a planned quiz only in advance of an absence. Course Objective To grasp an understanding of theoretical methodologies and demonstrate their application through discussions, presentations, papers. Course work Methodology Presentation with Annotated Bibliography Participation, discussion leads, pop quizzes, article discussion overview Paper In-class writing (tentative %s) 15% 15% 40% 30%
Occasionally, I will ask for a written response to an assigned reading during class. You may use your texts, any notes youve already taken, and class discussion. Unannounced closed-book quizzes are always a possibility. Missed poop quizzes and written responses cannot be made up. Once or twice during the semester, you will be asked to prepare discussion questions and lead class discussion. This gives you the opportunity to focus class attention on what you found interesting in our readings/material or to apply our readings to items on the application list or to current events. The will demonstrate a series of theoretical applications to one work. Due April 24. The methodology presentation is a presentation, about 15 minutes, providing the class with additional resources for one theoretical school and demonstrating, orally, an application of that theory to a text from our application list. It should be accompanied by an annotated bib of about 4-5 sources of additional resources associated with the theory. Article overview: 5-10 minutes explaining how one of our assigned readings furthers, explains, or demonstrates the theoretical school. Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty According to the Student Handbook Code of Conduct at FSU: Academic dishonesty is the giving, taking, or presenting of information or material by a student with the intent of unethically or fraudulently aiding oneself or another on any work which is to be considered in the determination of a grade or the completion of academic requirements. It is expected that all members of the University community will work to actively deter academic misconduct and thus will share in the responsibility and authority to challenge and make known to the appropriate authority acts of apparent academic dishonesty. 1. Violations A student shall be guilty of a violation of the Academic Dishonesty Policy if he or she engages in act(s) of: a. Aiding and Abetting Others to Cheat or Plagiarize. Such conduct includes, but is not limited to, giving unauthorized assistance to another in order to assist that person in cheating or plagiarizing. b. Attempt. Such conduct shall include attempting any act that if completed would constitute a violation as defined herein. c. Cheating. Such conduct includes, but is not limited to, a student receiving unauthorized aid or assistance on any form of academic work. d. Falsification. Such conduct shall include the unauthorized changing of grades or conduct involving any untruth, either spoken or written regarding any circumstances related to academic work. e. Plagiarism. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, copying the language, structure, ideas and/or thoughts of another, without giving appropriate recognition and/or adopting the same as ones own original work. In short, plagiarism is the presentation of someone elses words or ideas as your own. Besides being unethical, it is stealing, illegal, and prosecutable. When it comes to writing within the adult world, it is especially important to understand and avoid any taint of plagiarism, as you can lose not only your job but also your reputation and livelihood. Plagiarism includes forgetting to place quotation marks around a quotation; not documenting that quotation, or summary, paraphrase, illustration, original idea, data; allowing a friend or relative to write or rewrite a paragraph in your paper; submitting a paper that has been written by anyone other than yourself. Evidence of plagiarism, either intentional or not, will result in an automatic F for the
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assignment and perhaps in the course. Student Behavior Expectations The instructor will respect all students and will make every effort to maintain a classroom climate that promotes learning for all students. Students must accept their responsibility for maintaining a positive classroom environment by abiding by the following rules: 1. Students are expected to arrive to class on time, remain in class until dismissed by the instructor, and refrain from preparing to leave class until it is dismissed. 2. Student/teacher relationships, as well as relationships among peers, must be respect...