Frederick Community College

 

EN102-ONL2 (206) – Composition and Literature

 

SUMMER 2012

 

Class begins:  6/4

Class ends:  7/30

Last Day to Withdraw: 7/18

 

 

 

Instructor Information:

 

 

Name:   Dr. Pete Rothenhoefer

Office:  Online

E-mail:  FRothenhoefer@frederick.edu

English Dept. Phone No:  301-846-2600

Contact: Email

Campus Mail Box #: 838

 

          

Course Information:

 

Credits:  3

On-campus Meetings:  0

On-campus Exams:  1

Prerequisites: EN101

Co-requisites: None

 

 

Course Description:

 

GenEd Arts & Humanities/Humanities or Arts & Humanities/Communications

 

EN102 reinforces, through an examination of literature, the reading, writing, critical thinking, and information literacy skills introduced in freshman composition. By exploring literary texts from fiction, poetry, and drama, students learn to clarify their own values and identities as well as develop a better understanding of ideas and cultures beyond their own experience.

 

 

Core Learning Outcomes:

 

Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate

 

1. informed critical responses to the fiction, poetry, and drama genres and to the human values they express through an awareness of literature as both a record and a reflection of culture

2. an understanding and interpretation of social values by identifying and evaluating moral issues and conflicts, by displaying academic honesty, and by valuing lifelong learning. 

3. college-level communication skills and appropriate documentation of source material

4.critical thinking skills in the analysis, comparison, synthesis, interpretation, and evaluation of literature and the techniques used by writers to create it. 

5.appropriate use of literary terminology.

6.the value of literature as evidence of a multicultural society expressing the universality and diversity of the human experience and the importance and responsibility of the individual.

7.the use of technology to format papers and conduct research.

 Instructional Methods:

 

The course introduces you to three types of literature: poetry, short works of prose, and plays. Each of these literary genres forms a unit of the course.

The course is set up in units through modules that will guide you in learning about literature and improving your analytical thinking and writing. In each module you will read several selections from one of the units, respond to questions about the readings, and discuss the readings with other students. At the end of each unit is an exam on the readings and the literary terms associated with the genre. You will also write three short essays. One is the on-campus Testing Center requirement, and two are associated with unit tests. You will also complete a documented research project of 5-7 pages.

There is something for everyone in this course. And when it comes to the composition part, good writing isn't magic; it is a skill that anyone can master. In this course, the instructor and the activities guide you toward writing clearly and concisely. What you learn here will help you with your college career and with life in general. Being easily understood through the written word is vital in today's fast moving world. You don't have to have a huge vocabulary or possess the gift of gab. You just have to learn how to write things clearly and concisely. It is much easier than you think.

 

 

 How this course is organized:

 

This is not a self-paced course. You must complete each module within the dates assigned to it.

 

Although this is an online course, this is NOT a self-paced course. There are due dates for each assignment. Read the Blackboard site section, “Evaluation Methods,” to see how your grades will be affected by late assignments. Also read the section of this syllabus titled, “Assignment Guidelines” (below). It is your responsibility to let the instructor know if you run into difficulties (see “Participation Policy”).

 

Each week you will find announcements and assignments posted on the Blackboard site. The instructor will guide you through the literature you read, the text material you study, and the questions to which you respond. You will read the assigned material, think critically about what you have read, and participate in class discussions via the Discussion Board forums. During the semester, you will write two analysis papers, create a poetry project, write a documented research paper, and complete the three online exams identified in your syllabus. The one time you are required to come to the campus is to complete the writing sample.

 

Most assignments, essays and projects are completed individually and turned in via Blackboard’s Assignment process. Quizzes are completed online via Blackboard. Discussion Board assignments give students the opportunity to interact and learn to evaluate each others’ work/comments effectively, accurately, respectfully, and in a professional manner. All assignments are covered in Assignments in Blackboard.

 

 

 

Text(s) and Course Materials:

 

Pike, David, and Ana M. Acosta. Literature: A World of Writing. Boston: Longman, 2010. Print.  ISBN 13: 978-0-321-36489-0        ISBN 10: 0-321-36489-9

 

Progress Report:

 

By the end of the 3rd week of the semester, you will have an opportunity to evaluate your progress in this course and decide if you need to make any adjustments (additional study, tutoring, conference with instructor) to assure your success in this course.

 

 

 

Evaluation Methods:

 

Tests / Papers / Projects / Participation

Point Value

Final Grade Scale

Integrity Pledge submission

10

 

On-Campus Writing Sample

10

900 – 1000  =  A

Discussion Boards (14 @ 10 points each)

140

 

Reading Quizzes  (12 @ 10 points each)

120

800 – 899    =  B

MLA & Anti-Plagiarism Unit, 2 tests

50

 

Fiction Unit Test, 3 parts

100

700 – 799    =  C

Fiction Essay

100

 

Drama Unit Test, 3 parts

100

600 – 699    =  D

Drama Essay

100

 

Documented Research Paper

170

599 & below = F

Poetry Unit Test, 2 parts

100

 

TOTAL

1000

 

 

If the graded performance for online assignments differs significantly from the grade average for proctored assignments, the instructor reserves the right to administer additional tests. Late assignments are penalized 20% for two days, and receive a grade of zero thereafter.

 

 

 

Student Services

 

A variety of services are available to assist students in succeeding at FCC. Learn more about these services at http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/index.aspx.

Students with disabilities who are in need of accommodations or who have questions related to disabilities services should contact the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) office at 301-846-2408. Learn more at http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/disability.aspx.

 

 

 

 Participation Policy:

 

 

1.      The course level class participation policy is designed to support the learning process.

2.      The course level class participation policy is designed within the framework of the approved class formats for online classes.

3.      To maintain the highest quality of academic work, the course level class participation policy encourages and expects the student to participate fully in all course activities.

4.      In case of serious illness, emergency, religious holidays, or participation in official college functions, students remain responsible for completing the requirements of the course.

5.      Class Participation affects the grade of the student.  The course syllabus identifies measurable units of class participation in course activities such as discussion board responses and completion of the required essays, projects, and modules.

 

 

 

 Email Policy:

 

With the exception of MOL students, all FCC students will receive and are expected to use their FCC email address for correspondence with faculty and staff at the college. Students can establish and access their FCC email accounts at https://myfcc.frederick.edu. Email is an instructional tool essential to student-instructor and student-student communication. In the Blackboard environment by default, your email address is available to all students in this course.

However, students are permitted to use email addresses of other students in this course only for the purpose and the duration of this course.

The instructor can be expected to respond to regular student email inquiries (grades, posted assignments, and tests excluded) within the time frame of

   24 to 48 hours (9 to15 week courses)

       [Choose one]                           18 to 24 hours (5 to 8 week courses)

12 to 14 hours (J-Term to 3 weeks)

 

 

Academic Integrity:

 

Work in this course is subject to the provisions of the FCC Code of Academic Integrity. Plagiarism in any form will not be tolerated. As a student, it is your job to practice academic honesty at ALL times.  Make sure that all sources, particularly Internet sources, get proper credit for quotations, paraphrases, and ideas. More information about this and the Student Conduct Code are available at http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/studentpolicies.aspx

You must send your Academic Integrity Pledge to the instructor. The form is available at http://courses.frederick.edu/_utilities/regform.htm

 

 

 

 

Assignment Guidelines

 

 

All written assignments must be turned in on time via Blackboard – assignments WILL NOT BE accepted via Email.

 

It is important to log into Blackboard regularly and meet the deadlines. To receive full credit for any of your work, you must submit it ON TIME and in the CORRECT LOCATION. All assignments are due by midnight on the date specified. For those where a specific due date is not given, it is due Saturday of that week no later than midnight.

 

Late written assignments lose 20% of their credit for two days; after that they earn no credit. All other workshop assignments lose 20% of their credit for two days if late; after that they earn no credit.

 

All assignments must be submitted according to the course guidelines.

 

Assignments are due by midnight of the date due. Students who find themselves more than a week behind will not be able to make up missed work. The instructor reserves the right to not accept late assignments.

 

 

 

 

Topical Outline (ONLINE COURSES)

 

Federal regulations require the equivalent of two additional hours of time-on-task for each Face-to-Face, in-class hour. The total for Online Courses = 112 time-on-task hours).

 

 

Week

Subject

Content

Week 1

 

 

 

Module 1: Introduction

 

Read:

WoW 2-6

WoW 6-14

BB – “Reading Literature”

WoW 7 – Fernandez – “Wrong Channel”

WoW 10 – Plath – “Metaphors”

WoW 12 – Shields – “Absence”

 

 

 

Submit the Integrity Pledge

 

Begin the MLA & Anti-plagiarism unit, due at the end of Module 03

 

Discussion Board

 

Module 2: Genre & Fiction

 

Read:

WoW 114-15 – “The Conventions of Genre”

WoW 118 – “Comparing Genres”

WoW 131-38 – “What Is Fiction?”

WoW 116-17 – Atwood – “Happy Endings”

WoW 118-21 – Momaday – From The Way to Rainy Mountain

WoW 133 – Powell – “A Gentleman’s C”

WoW 278-82 – Walker – “Everyday Use”

WoW 624-28 – Bambara – “The Lesson”

 

 

On-Campus Writing Sample (required)

 

Module 02 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Work on Anti-plagiarism unit

Week 2

 

 

 

Module 3: Fiction

 

Read:

WoW 250-58 – O’Connor – “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

WoW 519-25 – Alexie – “This Is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”

WoW 358-62 – Updike – “A&P”

 

 

 

Module 03 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Due:

MLA & Plagiarism Assignment

 

 

Module 4: Fiction

 

Read:

WoW 435-42 – Hawthorne – “Young Goodman Brown”

WoW 442-43 – Chopin – “The Story of an Hour”

WoW 444-46 – Hemingway – “Hills Like White Elephants”

WoW 447-56 – O’Brien – “The Things They Carried”

 

 

 

 

Begin the Fiction Essay

 

Module 04 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Week 3

 

 

 

Module 5: Fiction

 

Read:

WoW 507-11 – Welty – “A Worn Path”

WoW 534-38 – Poe – “The Cask of Amontillado”

WoW 538-43 – Faulkner – “A Rose for Emily”

 

 

 

 

Module 05 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Continue the Fiction Essay

 

 

Module 6: Literary Devices

 

Read:

WoW 210-23 – “Working with Literary Devices”

WoW 384-87 includes:

·        Teasdale – “The Look”

·        Shakespeare – “Sonnet 128”

·        Shakespeare – “Sonnet 116”

·        Shakespeare – “Sonnet 29”

·        Donne – “The Flea”

 

 

 

 

Fiction Unit Test (3 parts)

 

Submit the Fiction Essay

 

Week 4

 

 

 

Module 7: Drama

 

Read:

WoW – 139 & 146-56 – “What Is a Play?”

WoW 139-45 – Glaspell – Trifles

WoW 189-93 – Beckett – Krapp’s Last Tape

 

 

 

Module 07 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

 

Module 8: Drama - Hamlet

 

Read:

WoW 285-300 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 1

WoW 300-311 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 2

 

Begin the Drama Essay

 

Module 08 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

Week 5

 

 

 

Module 9: Drama - Hamlet

 

Read:

WoW 194-95 – “Writing About a Performance”

WoW 199 – “Types of Essays About Performance”

WoW 311-325 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 3

WoW 325-335 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 4

 

 

 

 

Module 09 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Continue the Drama Essay

 

Module 10: Drama - Hamlet

 

Read:

WoW 335-46 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 5

 

 

Discussion Board

 

Drama Unit Test (3 parts)

 

Submit the Drama Essay

Week 6

 

 

 

Module 11: Genre & Poetry

 

Read:

WoW 114-21 -- “On the Conventions of Genre”

WoW 122-123 – “What is Poetry?

WoW 123 – Coleridge – “Metrical Feet”

WoW 175 – Blake – “London”

WoW 457 – Donne – “Death Be Not Proud”

WoW 652-53 – Basho & Wright – Haikus

 

 

 

 

Module 11 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

 

Module 12:  Poetry (Translations)

 

Read

WoW 232-38 – “Reading & Writing Between Languages”

Includes:

·        Catullus – “Poem 85” & “Translation of Poem 85”

·        Lovelace, Landor, Pound, Whigham, Martin, Bidart, Sagan – “Translating Catullus”

 

 

 

Module 12 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Begin the Documented Research Paper

Week 7

 

 

 

Module 13: Poetry

 

Read:

WoW 176 – Frost – “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

WoW 525-26 – Frost – “Mending Wall”

WoW 655-56 – Bishop – “The Fish”

WoW 654 – H.D. – “The Sea Rose”

WoW 658 – Hopkins – “Inversnaid”

WoW 660 – Merwin – “Rain at Night”

 

 

 

 

Module 13 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Continue work on Research Paper

 

 

Module 14:  Poetry

 

Read:

WoW 238 – Owen – “Dulce et Decorum Est”

WoW 458 – Thomas – “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

WoW 459 – Dickinson – “Because I could not stop for Death” WoW 460 – Dickinson – “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died”

WoW 553 – Smith – “Not Wavings but Drowning”

 

 

 

 

 

Module 14 Quiz

 

Discussion Board

 

Submit the Research Paper

 

Week 8

 

 

 

Module 15: Poetry

 

Read:

WoW 382-83 – Uruttiran – “What She Said …”

WoW 387 – Baca – “Spliced Wire”

WoW 388-89 – Poe – “Annabel Lee”

WoW 389 – Eliot – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

WoW 620-21 – Gang – “Red Azalea on the Cliff”

 

 

 

 

Discussion Board

 

Poetry Unit Test (2 parts)

NOTE:  Your instructor reserves the right to make changes to this outline as needed.