English Literature Since 1800 ENG College of Liberal Arts, Department of English University of Central Oklahoma

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1 The UCO student information sheet and syllabus attachment can be found at English Literature Since 1800 ENG College of Liberal Arts, Department of English University of Central Oklahoma Kurt Hochenauer, Ph.D. Office: LA 103B Work Telephone: Home Telephone: This course meets on the Desire2Learn (D2L) learning management system, which can be accessed at Weekly online office hours will be posted on the course website each week. Regular office hours are from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday. Please use the D2L system to me about class business during the time period of this class. Response time for is usually within 24 hours Monday through Friday. Essay and other project grades will be available within seven days of submission. Course Catalog Description: This course provides a survey of British literature and British literary movements from 1800 with the emphasis evenly distributed. Objectives: In this course, we read British literary texts published in the past approximately 200 years and apply a variety of readings to those texts. We use such poststructuralist reading techniques as deconstruction, feminist, Marxist, and new historicist to undermine and subvert traditional constructs of British hegemony and mythology. As we read and write about these texts, we improve our communication and critical thinking. Here are the texts we are using in the class: The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume B, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, (1818) Charles

2 Dickens's Great Expectations ( ), and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Some of you have never taken an online course before. Here are three things to keep in mind as you begin the class. (1) Online courses, like this one, tend to seem overwhelming at first because all the information and assignments must be read and scrutinized alone outside a traditional classroom. There is no one standing in front of you to give you perspective or fellow students asking questions. Remember, you can always ask me questions through s and telephone. (2) All the assignments requiring html code can be completed quite easily using systems such as Webbly.com or Wix.com. I understand that you might be creating web pages for the first time. My purpose is to help you, not grade you down. Good effort and the willingness to learn will earn "A" grades on these assignments. (3) Because online courses lack f2f (face-to-face) contact, it is important we practice netiquette when communicating with one another. Without body language (a smile, a nod of the head, etc.), it is easy to be misunderstood. Basic course requirement: Students must access the course on at least four days of the online week from Monday through Sunday. In addition, students must post on the various discussion boards at least eight times during the week. Assignments: Essay One, 50 points Essay Two, 50 points Essay Three, 50 points Alternative Audio, 50 points Discussion, 200 points Blog, 50 points Web Page, 50 points Team Project, 50 points Final Grade based on 500 points possible:

3 A (Excellent); B (Good); C (Average); D (Below Average); 324 or below F (Failure). Essays: Essays should be approximately 800 words, which is roughly three doublespaced typed pages. The essays should argue for an interpretation of one or more of the texts we read in class, corresponding to the particular time period we are studying. Essay One will be about a text(s) in The Romantic Period. Essay Two will be over text(s) in The Victorian Period. Essay Three will be over text(s) in The Modern Period. You will submit each essay to Dropbox by the due date listed in the class schedule, which can be found on the course syllabus. In each essay, you should argue for an interpretation of one or more texts (a poem, short story, or novel) in the corresponding time period. You should not use outside sources in your essay. You should not discuss the author's life. These essays are designed for you to create an argument about a text(s) and then prove that argument through textual evidence and logic. Each essay should have its own title. The student's name should be on the upper left side of the essay's first page. Quotes from texts do not have to be documented in MLA format, but you can use that format if you choose. Simply put quotes marks around textual material or indent ten spaces for longer quotes. Alternative Audio: It is important faculty and students create online content for courses using new technologies.consequently, students in this class can replace one essay assignment with an original mp3 file. In this file, students will either read a poem or a section of a fiction and then offer a brief interpretation of the text. These files will be made available on the class Web site.have fun with this assignment. Give a real interpretation of what you think the text means. Audacity is one of the leading, free recording software sites on the Internet. Discussion: Students are required to post at least eight times on the discussion forums a week during the online week of Monday through Sunday.

4 Posts should be substantive. Each of the eight posts should be at least oneparagraph long. The posts count even if it is a response to another student. Students must post in the discussion forums labeled "required" to receive full discussion points. Students will be notified of their discussion grade midway through and at the end of class in a D2L . Students can the instructor at anytime to monitor how they are doing with the assignment. This discussion assignment is one of the most important in the class and is worth 200 points. Blog: Each student will be required to maintain a blog during the duration of the class. There are a variety of free, easy-to-use blog services on the Internet, including Blogger, one of the most popular blogging sites on the Internet. There are others as well. An excellent open source blog platform, Word Press, offers a free blogging platform.)your tasks are to (1) create your blog, (2) post at least once a week on a topic related to, our class (a poem, an author, an interpretation, etc.), and (3) and give me your link so I can list all the class blogs on the main class site. You must post by midnight Sunday of each week. You can blog anonymously, but I will have to know who you are in order to give you credit.if you already have a blog, just simply send me your link so I can link to it and then blog once a week over class material during the time period of the class. Web Page: This assignment calls on you to create a web page related to the class material. The web page must contain the following: text (at least 300 words), at least one image, and links. As part of your assignment, you will need to load up your page on a server, such as Weebly.com. You will turn in your assignment by submitting your URL/web address to me in a D2L .you should use this page as your contribution to the team project. You should communicate with your team members before you begin this assignment. I have set-up forums for each team. Team Project:

5 Your team project calls on you to create a website with at least one page per team member. The site must have an overall theme, message, or point related to the class material and agreed upon by team members. The site can be practical and viable, or it can be creative and avant-garde, or both! Your individual web page projects should be related to the team project. The main page of the project should link to the individual pages. One team member could, for example, create their page as the site's main page or the team could create a new page altogether. You will then send me the URL in a D2L .please discuss your ideas with your team members and on the discussion boards. Feel free to ask me any questions. Weekly Schedule, Fall 2015, Block Two As you will see by reading through the schedule, most of the assignments are due by midnight Sunday of each week. This does NOT mean that you have to wait until Sunday night to submit your assignments. I encourage you to submit your assignments before the due date. I made this the weekly deadline to allow you to budget your own time. In addition, please note that the first week requires you to (1) post a short bio of yourself on the appropriate discussion forum in D2L and (2) and set up your blog. It is important you complete this simple, one-time introductory work as soon as possible. Remember to use D2L to me about class business during the time period of the class. Week One (October 12-18): Reading Assignment: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge Read through the class material thoroughly. By midnight Tuesday, post a short bio of yourself on the appropriate discussion forum. By midnight Wednesday, set up your blog and me your link through D2L. Read the assigned texts. Post at least eight times on the class discussion forums. Week Two (October 19-25): Reading Assignment: Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats blog. Week Three (October 26-November 1): Reading Assignment: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

6 blog. By midnight Sunday, submit Essay One. Week Four (November 2-8): Reading Assignment: Elizabeth Browing, Tennyson, Arnold, Robert Browning, Rossetti blog. Week Five (November 9-15): Reading Assignment: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations blog. By midnight Sunday, submit Essay Two. Week Six (November 16-22): Reading Assignment: Yeats, Eliot, Joyce's "The Dead." blog. By midnight Sunday, submit your Web page assignment. Week Seven (November 23-29): Reading Assignment: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway blog. Week Eight (November 30-December 6): Reading Assignment: Auden, Thomas, Larkin Access the course at least four days. There are no required posts this week. By midnight Sunday, post once on your blog. By midnight Sunday, submit Essay Three. By midnight Sunday, submit your Team Project. Note about Readings All the texts can be found in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. B, except the novels by Shelley, Dickens, and Woolf. Individual poems, stories and novels will be discussed in the forums under their titles, and I link to all full texts online. We will discuss the author and

7 their poems, short stories, or novels in the order given in the below schedule as listed by the last name of the author. The weekly reading assignments can be found in the courses learning modules. Week One:Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge. Week Two:Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats. Week Three:Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Week Four: Elizabeth Browing, Tennyson, Arnold, Robert Browning, Rosetti Week Five:Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Week Six:Yeats, Eliot, Joyce's "The Dead." Week Seven:Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Week Eight:Catch-up on reading if needed. Transformative Learning Outcomes Transformative learning is a holistic process that places students at the center of their own active and reflective learning experiences. All students at the University of Central Oklahoma will have transformative learning experiences in five core areas: discipline knowledge; leadership; research, creative and scholarly activities; service learning and civic engagement; global and cultural competencies; and health and wellness. This course addresses six of the university's transformative learning goals. Students enrolled in English 2653 will acquire discipline knowledge by studying the history and development of British literature in the 19th, 20th and 20st centuries British literature demonstrate leadership by defining, developing and presenting major independent projects demonstrating their mastery of the intellectual content of the literature course

8 engage in research and scholarly and creative activities as they review existing research, scholarship, and creative work within the field known as literary studies be encouraged to participate in service learning and civic engagement using literary activists as one model from which to draw learn the global and cultural standing of the British literary canon and exercise their minds by reading, writing and discussing emotional issues that give human existence meaning and vitality.