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You are required to read this syllabus on the first day. If you choose to remain in the course, you are agreeing to abide by the policies stated within the syllabus. Your grade will be based solely on quality of work. Do not remain in the class with the expectation that exceptions will be made for you. Extra credit in not available, as the focus needs to be on the assignments. It is the students' responsibility to edit, proof, and correctly submit work. Since six hours of composition are required as prerequisite for this course, revisions and rewrites are not allowed. I do want to work with you in advance of due dates to help you in any way I can, but you must communicate your needs and follow up as necessary. Doing your work or taking tests too close to the deadlines may create problems that you cannot overcome. No make-up tests will be given. Doing well requires communication, time, effort, organization, and self-motivation.
Use your textbook website for timelines, biographies, quizzes, and contextual help. Go to http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/wilkie/.
Passing grades in Composition I and II (6 hours minimum). Students must verify these prerequisites by faxing transcripts, or grade reports for both courses. The fax number is 512-223.2046. The student’s name must show clearly on what is faxed, and my name needs to be on the transmittal form. If a prerequisite was completed at ACC, faxing will not be necessary for that prerequisite. No assignments will be accepted before verification of both prerequisites, and students are to be withdrawn Friday, the second week of the course for failure to provide both prerequisites, or Friday the first week in the summer course. If you are withdrawn, you will not be reinstated.
I do not withdraw students except for lack of proof of prerequisites or lack of correctly completed orientation quiz.. I reserve the right to make changes in the schedule with adequate notice given to the students. The student is responsible for all information contained in the current ACC catalog. Students are required to copy themselves on all correspondence or submissions and retain the copies until the course is completed. Students will be responded to during set office/computer times, excluding holidays. Although I expect to return papers sooner, please allow one week to receive graded assignments. Student-professor telephone conferences may be required of some students.
Papers must be submitted using Rich Text Format (.rtf) and as attachments. No grades will be given for papers that are not. Computer-related issues are the responsibilities of the students. Use MLA style which includes paragraphing and double-spacing. Do not skip extra lines between paragraphs. Cite if necessary. Plagiarism or scholastic dishonesty will result in an F in the course. Name your file as follows: HWLI-Your Name ASSN 1
I do not accept late papers or tests, but I do accept early papers. What you send to me as your assignment will be graded as your assignment.
Students may not initiate incomplete grades.
World Literature I concerns itself with major Western works from the Ancient World through the Renaissance. British works are excluded due to time constraints and with the hope that a course in those works will make up the deficiency. The genres are the narrative epic, the drama, poetry, and novel. The authors and their backgrounds, and mythologies are basic to the course as is appreciation of the periods of history involved.
Students will focus on the relevance of the works, their importance in the body of literature, and the importance of myth. Mythology will be the unifying concept for the course. Myth, as defined by Keen and Valley-Fox in Your Mythic Journey and as influenced by the many works of Joseph Campbell, is "an intricate set of interlocking stories, rituals, rites, and customs that inform and give the pivotal sense of meaning and direction to a person, family, community, or culture"(7)
Myth is also defined as "a conscious celebration of certain values... unspoken consensus, the habitual way of seeing things, the unquestioned assumptions, the automatic stance"(7).
The test is primarily subjective with some objective questions.You need to read critically and comprehend the material assigned because you will be asked to critically think about and respond to what you have read. You need to take notes over terms and annotate in your text throughout the course. (Marking in your text is a very helpful tool.) Studying with others can be extremely helpful, too. Tests may be taken at any of the campuses but not the centers. Photo id and current ACC id are required by all ACC testing centers. Go to http://www.austincc.edu/support-and-services/services-for-students/testing-services/instructional-testing
Choose one of the following and indicate lai, epic, or Sapphic on your paper:
A. Write a lai, a la Marie de France. Base your content on one of your assigned readings, other than Book of the City of the Ladies which is an allegory. Be sure your lai has the characteristics of a lai as defined in your text. It needs to be a minimum of three hundred words.
B. Write a minimum of twenty lines that open your imaginary epic poem. Use the epic conventions from Class Notes and your text.
C. Write a Sapphic. See Class Notes.Write a minimum of three stanzas, mark your stressed syllables by underlining them, and divide your feet with slashes (/).
Complete one of the following assignments:
A. You will respond to a set of ten questions about the content of your reading assignments. You need to complete each question as you finish each assignment. When you have finished all ten, on or before the deadline, send the responses to me as one paper and as one attachment. Name your file WL, first initial, your last name, RR.rtf. For example Roxanne Riley would use WLrrileyRR.rtf.
Number your paragraphs to correspond with the prompts. The prompt should be clearly discernible in the topic sentence of your paragraph. Each paragraph needs to be 100-125 words, using specific detail to support and develop the prompt. Think of this assignment as an open book test. You want to demonstrate to me that you have read the material carefully and critically, meaning that you have comprehended it and thought about it. General statements will not demonstrate that. Do not summarize. You will lose points for every part of the plot that you retell. Do not write introductory sentences. Start with your topic and go immediately to your support for the topic. Your method of development will not be narrative; it will be analytical. You will pull from the text the support that you need rather than "walking" through the plot and stumbling upon the support that you need. The best responses will show some insight.
1. In The Odyssey name and explain the relationship between Athena and Odysseus.
2. In The Odyssey what events allow Odysseus to learn about himself?
3. Telemachus alters the course of events in what ways?
4. Name and explain how Oedipus's tragic flaw is evident in the play.
5. Regarding the books of The Aeneid that you read, which very minor characters are significant and why?
6. Explain which epic conventions listed in Class Notes are present in The Metamorphosis.
7. Discuss the range of emotions presented in each of the assigned poems of Sappho that are specified in Class Notes.
8. Explain the use of desmesure in both of the Marie de France lais.
9. Explain the setting (time and place) and the framing device in the assigned part of 1001 Nights.
10. Explain what the three ladies and the city symbolize in the assigned section of The Book of the City of the Ladies, and in doing so, relate the ladies to the city.
B. Find one source for each of the works listed above and present why that source thinks the work named is important, great, etc. Give the name of the source and a line or two to explain why he or she is a credible source (books or articles on the topic, academic background). You may devote a paragraph to each of your nine sources (those above plus The Decameron) and number each paragraph, as opposed to developing a cohesive paper. Use the tale from The Decameron that you were assigned rather than commenting on the work as a whole.
Write one of the following:
A. Create a framing device as is used in The Decameron. Write a minimum four hundred word introduction for your imaginary work that sets up the framing device.
B. Write an allegory inspired by Don Quixote. Be sure you are clear on the term. The minimum is five hundred words.
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