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Frederick
Community College English Composition and
Literature EN 102
ONL-3
Spring
2012
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Class begins: 1/30/12 |
Class ends:
5/18/12 |
Last Day to Withdraw: 4/16/12 |
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Instructor
Information: |
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Name: David Becker |
Office: NA |
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E-mail: dbecker@frederick.edu |
Phone
Number: 716-640-4526 |
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Contact
Hours: email and by appointment via distance |
Campus
Mail Box #: None |
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Course
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Credits: 3 |
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On-campus
Meetings: None |
On-campus
Exams: TBA |
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Prerequisites: EN 101 |
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Course
Description: |
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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. |
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Core
Learning Outcomes: |
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Students
will have written papers, completed examinations, and participated in
discussions that 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
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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. |
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Instructional
Methods: |
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The online format
requires careful reading of all announcements, directions, etc. Assignments
will include reading, postings on the discussion board, responding to peer
discussions, completing tests and writing critical analysis papers. Students
will correspond with the instructor primarily through email for one on one
help. |
How
This Course Is Organized:
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The
course is divided into three units. Assignments are opened and due weekly.
This is not a self-paced course. |
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Texts
and Course Materials: |
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Hacker,
Diana. The Bedford Handbook. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010 or a
recent edition
(required) Pike, David L., and Ana M.
Acosta. Literature: A World of
Writing: Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays. Boston: Longman, 2011 (required) |
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Progress
Report: |
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By
the end of the 6th week of the semester, I will have returned grades on all
weekly assignments to date. At this point you can 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. |
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Assessment
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Tests / Papers / Projects / Participation
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Point Value
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Final Grade Scale |
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Fiction
Test Fiction
Essay Drama
Test Drama
Essay Poetry
Project Poetry
Test Research
Paper Participation (weekly assignments) |
100
100 100 100 100 100 200 200 |
900-1000= A 800-899= B 700-799= C 600-699= D Below 600 = F |
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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. |
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Assignment
Guidelines: |
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1.
All written assignments (essay and
poetry project) must be turned in on time via the Digital Drop Box –
assignments will not be
accepted via Email. Please speak to me if this is a concern for you. 2.
All assignments must be submitted in
Microsoft Word format. Submitting an assignment correctly is your
responsibility, and you will lose points if your file is late due to the
incorrect format. 3.
It is very important to log into
Blackboard regularly and keep up with 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. Late work will be
penalized by 10% of the total possible points for each calendar day it is
late. Instructor reserves the right to
not accept work that is more than 1 week late. 4.
Each week you will find
announcements and assignments posted on the Blackboard site. I will guide you through the literature you
read, the text material you study, and the questions to which you
respond. You will be reading the
assigned material, thinking critically about what you have read, and
participating in class discussion via the Discussion Board Forums. During the semester, you will write three
analysis papers, write a documented research paper, and complete three online
exams identified in your syllabus. Currently,
the one time you are required to come to the campus is to complete the
writing sample. 5.
Discussion Boards work the following
way: you must have one “original” post and one reply, minimum, in each board
for the week; you might have five boards a week, and you might have more. The
“original” post must be by Wednesday evening, and the other posts (replies)
can be completed by Sunday evening. 6.
Assignments are due by midnight of
the date due. For those where a
specific due date is not given, it is due Sunday of that week, no later than
midnight. Students who find themselves
more than a week behind will not be able to make up missed work. Instructor reserves the right to not accept
late assignments. |
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Student Services |
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A variety of services are available to
assist students in succeeding at FCC. Students can learn more about these
services by visiting the Student Services web page: 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. Students can learn more about these services by visiting the
Services for Students with Disabilities web page: http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/disability.aspx. |
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Participation
Policy: |
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Since this is an online
course, you are free to access course materials at any time of the day or
night. However, this class had
deadlines, and if you fail to meet them, you’ll lose points for that
assignment. In other words, this is
not a correspondence course, where you have open-ended dates. If there is a medical
emergency that prevents a student from completing assignments, the student
must find a way to contact the instructor (email or phone) and let the
instructor know of the circumstances.
A student may be required to show proof of illness (i.e. doctor’s
note). I
am available to you through email or telephone. |
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Email Policy: |
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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. |
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Academic Integrity: |
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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 |
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You must send
your Academic Integrity Pledge to the instructor. The form is available at http://courses.frederick.edu/_utilities/regform.htm |
Topical
Outline
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Week
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SUBJECT |
CONTENT |
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Week 1: |
Fiction /short stories |
WoW – 02-14 – “Reading & Thinking About Literature” WoW – 07 – Fernández – “Wrong Channel” WoW – 10 – Plath – “Metaphors” WoW – 12 – Shields – “Absence” |
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Week 2: |
Fiction/short
stories |
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 Bambera – “The Lesson” |
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Week 3: |
Fiction/short stories |
WoW 250-58 – O’Connor – “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” WoW 519-525 – Alexie – “This Is What it Means to Say
Phoenix, Arizona” WoW 358-62 – Updike – “A&P” |
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Week 4: |
Fiction/short stories |
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” |
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Week 5: |
Fiction/short stories |
WoW 507-11 – Welty – “A Worn Path” WoW 534-38 – Poe – “The Cask of Amontillado” WoW 538-43 – Faulkner – “A Rose for Emily” |
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Week 6: |
Fiction/short stories |
Teasdale – “The Look” Shakespeare – “Sonnet 128” Shakespeare – “Sonnet 116” Shakespeare – “Sonnet 29” Donne – “The Flea” |
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Week 7: |
Drama |
WoW – 139 & 146-56 – “What Is a Play?” WoW 139-45 – Glaspell – Trifles WoW 189-93 – Beckett – Krapp’s Last Tape |
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Week 8: |
Drama |
WoW 285-300 – Hamlet – Act 1 WoW 300-311 – Hamlet – Act 2 |
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Week 9: |
Drama |
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 |
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Week 10: |
Drama Review |
WoW 335-346 – Hamlet – Act 5 |
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Week 11: |
Poetry: Introduction, and Ones You Have To Read |
WoW – 114-21 - On "The Conventions of Genre" WoW – 122-23 - "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 |
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Week 12: |
Poetry: Points of View! |
WoW
232-38 – “Reading & Writing Between Languages,” which includes: ·
Catullus – “Poem 85” & “Translation of Poem 85” ·
Lovelace, Landor, Pound, Whigham, Martin, Bidart Sagan
– “Translating Catullus” |
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Week 13: |
Poetry: Relationships, too! |
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” |
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Week 14: |
Poetry: The Environment! |
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" |
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Week 15: |
Poetry review |
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” |
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NOTE: Your instructor reserves the right to make
changes to this outline as needed. |