Required Texts: A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again; The Broom of the System; Girl With Curious Hair; Infinite Jest; Brief Interviews With Hideous Men; Oblivion; Consider the Lobster

Evaluation: 4 tests (5% each); presentation (30%); paper (40%); attendance and participation (10%)

Tests will cover reading material up to an including the day of the test. The purpose of the tests is to ensure that the reading assignments have been completed and understood. Tests will consist of short-answer questions and will take about 15 minutes to write.

Presentations: Students will sign up for a presentation date on the first day of class. Presentation topics will be suggested for each date and text, but students may devise their own topic so long has it is cleared by the professor at least a week in advance of the presentation.

Papers are due on April 18.

Prerequisites: any two 2000-level English courses.

Week 1: Jan 12 Introduction
Week 2: Jan 19 A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
Week 3: Jan 26 The Broom of the System
Week 4: Feb 2 Test 1 (5%); Girl With Curious Hair
Week 5: Feb 9 Infinite Jest (—p. 200)
Week 6: Feb 16 Infinite Jest (—p. 400)
Week 7: Feb 23 Reading Week – No Class
Week 8: Mar 2 Test 2 (5%); Infinite Jest (—p. 600)
Week 9: Mar 9 Infinite Jest (—p. 800)
Week 10: Mar 16 Infinite Jest (—p. 1000)
Week 11: Mar 23 Test 1 (5%); Infinite Jest (—end)
Week 12: Mar 30 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Week 13: Apr 6 Oblivion
Week 13: Apr 13 Test 4 (5%); Consider the Lobster

Grade scale: A+ 91% to 100%; A 85% to 90%; A- 80% to 84%; B+ 77% to 79%; B 73% to 76%; B-70% to 72%; C+ 67% to 69%; C 63% to 66%; C- 60% to 62%; D+ 55% to 59%; D 50% to 54%; F

Course Policies: Papers handed in after the due date will be subject to a reduction of half a letter grade per day late. An “A” paper, in other words, will receive an “A-” grade if it is handed in one day late. All papers must be written in accordance with MLA rules for citation and style. Plagiarism is theft; if plagiarism is suspected, the matter will be investigated and, if found guilty, the student will fail the course and may face further penalty from the university. A missed test or presentation will receive a zero grade.

UH B-730 Instructor: Dr. Kiki Benzon
kiki.benzon@uleth.ca
Office Hours: MF 15:00 – 16:00
UH B-810k

T.A.: Kent Aardse
kent.aardse@uleth.ca
Office Hours: TBA
UH B-810i

This course covers late twentieth- and twenty-first century literary trends. We will look at writing that demonstrates important formal aspects of postmodern fiction and reflects the cultural conditions of the period. A small number of theoretical essays will inform our interpretations of the primary readings. Our literary exploration will consider six main topics: Cultural Critique, Narrative Innovation, Historical Revision, Image and Text, Science and Technology, and Electronic Literature.

Required Texts: Geyh, Leebron and Levy (eds.), The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Literature; Don DeLillo, Libra; Steve Tomasula, Vas: An Opera in Flatland.

Evaluation: midterm exam (25%); essay (25%); e-literature entry (20%); final exam (30%).

Prerequisites: any two 2000-level English courses.

Week 1: Jan 10 – 14 Cultural Critique
M Introduction to the course
W Ihab Hassan, “Toward a Concept of Postmodernism”
Fredric Jameson, from Postmodernism and Consumer Capitalism
F Umberto Eco, from Postscript to The Name of the Rose; Kurt Vonnegut, from Breakfast of Champions

Week 2: Jan 17 – 21
M Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation”; Mark Leyner, “Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog”
W Michael Berubé, “Just the Fax M’am”; Robert Coover,“A Night at the Movies”
F Hélène Cixous, from Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays; Bell Hooks, “Postmodern Blackness”

Week 3: Jan 24 – 28 Narrative Innovation
M Curtis White, from Memories of My Father Watching T.V.
W Walter Abish, “Ardor/Awe/Atrocity”; Donald Barthelme, “Sentence”
F Joyce Carol Oats, “The Turn of the Screw”

Week 4: Jan 31 – Feb 4 Historical Revision
M David Foster Wallace, “Lyndon”
W Art Speigleman, from Maus
F Susan Daitch, “X ≠ Y”

Week 5: Feb 7 – 11 Electronic Literature
M Midterm Exam (25%)
W Terry Harpold, “Conclusions”
Jane Yellowlees Douglas, from I have Said Nothing
Michael Joyce, from afternoon, a story
F Electronic Literature Directory (see http://directory.eliterature.org and http://collection.eliterature.org/1/)
Nick Monfort, “The Purpling” (http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu/tirw /vol9n2/artworks/The_Purpling/index.html)
Mark Amerika, GRAMMATRON (http://www.grammatron.com/)

Week 6: Feb 14 – 18
M Shelly Jackson, “My Body – A Wunderkammer” (http://collection.eliterature. org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html)
W ELD and E-Literature Entry Workshop
F E-Literature Entry Due – First Draft (10%); Don DeLillo, Libra

Week 7: Feb 21 – 25 Reading Week – No Class

Week 8: Feb 28 – Mar 4
M E-Literature Entry Due – Peer Edited (5%)
Don DeLillo, Libra
W Don DeLillo, Libra
F Don DeLillo, Libra

Week 9: Mar 7 – 11
M E-Literature Entry Due – Second Draft, for Submission to ELD (5%)
Don DeLillo, Libra
W Don DeLillo, Libra
F Don DeLillo, Libra

Week 10: Mar 14 – 18 Image and Text
M Writing Essays
W Mark Z. Danielewski, from House of Leaves (handout)
F Paul Auster, from City of Glass; Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, from Paul Auster’s City of Glass

Week 11: Mar 21 – 25
M Steve Tomasula, Vas: An Opera in Flatland
W Steve Tomasula, Vas: An Opera in Flatland
F Steve Tomasula, Vas: An Opera in Flatland

Week 12: Mar 28 – Apr 1
M Steve Tomasula, Vas: An Opera in Flatland
W Steve Tomasula, Vas: An Opera in Flatland
F Donna Harroway, from A Cyborg Manifesto

Week 13: Apr 4 – 8 Science and Technology
M Essay Due (25%); William Gibson, “The Grunsback Continuum”
W Neal Stevenson, “Snow Crash”
F Octavia Butler, from Imago

Week 14: Apr 11 – 15
M Ursula K. Le Guin, “Schrodinger’s Cat”
W Gerald Vizenor, “Feral Laser”
F E-Literature Entry Due – Final Draft, Incorporates ELD Edits (5%); Review for Final Exam

Grade scale: A+ 91% to 100%; A 85% to 90%; A- 80% to 84%; B+ 77% to 79%; B 73% to 76%; B-70% to 72%; C+ 67% to 69%; C 63% to 66%; C- 60% to 62%; D+ 55% to 59%; D 50% to 54%; F

Course Policies: Papers handed in after the due date will be subject to a reduction of half a letter grade per day late. An “A” paper, in other words, will receive an “A-” grade if it is handed in one day late. All papers must be written in accordance with MLA rules for citation and style. Plagiarism is theft; if plagiarism is suspected, the matter will be investigated and, if found guilty, the student will fail the course and may face further penalty from the university. A missed test or final exam will receive a zero grade.

Required Texts: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition (Baym, Ed.); The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson Macullers

Evaluation: 2 Midterms (20% each); 1500-1800 word paper (30%); Final Exam (30%).

Week 1:
September 8 TH. Introduction to the course

Week 2:
September
12 – 16 T. HENRY JAMES “Daisy Miller: A Study”
TH. SARAH ORNE JEWETT “A White Heron”

Week 3:
September
19 – 23 T. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN “The Yellow Wall-paper”
TH. NO CLASS

Week 4:
September 26 – 29 T. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Up From Slavery: Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address
TH. T. W. E. B. DU BOIS The Souls of Black Folk: III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

Week 5:
October
3 – 7 T. CLAUDE McKAY “The Lynching”; LANGSTON HUGHES, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
TH. ZORA NEALE HURSTON “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

Week 6:
October 10 – 14
T. RICHARD WRIGHT “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”
TH. MIDTERM 1

Week 7:
October 17 – 21
T. WILLIAM FAULKNER “Barn Burning”
TH. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD “Babylon Revisited”

Week 8:
October 24 – 28 T. ERNEST HEMINGWAY “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
TH. T.S.ELIOT “The Hollow Men”; EZRA POUND “Portrait d’une Femme”

Week 9: October 31 – November 4
T. GERTRUDE STEIN, “Objects”
TH. WALLACE STEVENS “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

Week 10:
November
7 – 11 T. MIDTERM 2
TH. CARSON McCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Week 11: November
14 – 18 T. CARSON McCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
TH. CARSON McCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Week 12: November
21 – 25 T CARSON McCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
TH. JOHN CHEEVER “The Swimmer”

Week 13: November
28 –
December 2 T. JOHN UPDIKE “Separating”
TH. RAYMOND CARVER “Cathedral”

Week 14: December
5 – 9 T. THOMAS PYNCHON “Entropy”
TH. PAPER DUE
Review for the Final Exam

Final Exam (30%)—December 19, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Grade scale: A+ 91% to 100%; A 85% to 90%; A- 80% to 84%; B+ 77% to 79%; B 73% to 76%; B-70% to 72%; C+ 67% to 69%; C 63% to 66%; C- 60% to 62%; D+ 55% to 59%; D 50% to 54%; F

Course Policies: Papers handed in after the due date will be subject to a reduction of one full letter grade per day late, for up to four days. An “A” paper, in other words, will receive a “B” grade if it is handed in one day late. After four days, the paper will receive a zero. All papers must be written in accordance with MLA rules for citation and style. Plagiarism is theft; if plagiarism is suspected, the matter will be investigated and, if found guilty, the student will fail the course and may face further penalty from the university. A missed test or final exam will receive a zero grade.

Required Texts: The Norton Introduction to Literature. Portable, Tenth Edition. Booth and Mays, Eds.; The Little Seagull Handbook, Bullock and Weinberg; White Noise, Don DeLillo.
You will be given a booklet containing grammar instruction and exercises. Please bring this to class with you for weeks two and three of the course.

Evaluation: Grammar Test (15%); Midterm (20%); 1500-1800 word paper (first draft 20%, final draft 15%); Final Exam (30%).

Week 1:
September 8 TH. Introduction to the course / Grammar

Week 2:
September
12 – 16 T. Grammar
TH. Grammar

Week 3:
September
19 – 23 T. Grammar
TH. GRAMMAR TEST

Week 4:
September 26 – 29 T. KATE CHOPIN, “The Story of an Hour”
TH. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, “Hills Like White Elephants”

Week 5:
October
3 – 7 T. HERMAN MELVILLE, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
TH. WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily

Week 6:
October 10 – 14
T. JOHN UPDIKE, “A & P”
TH. MIDTERM

Week 7:
October 17 – 21
T. DON DELILLO, White Noise
TH. DON DELILLO, White Noise

Week 8:
October 24 – 28 T. DON DELILLO, White Noise
TH. DON DELILLO, White Noise

Week 9: October 31 – November 4
T. Essay Writing
TH. SOPHOCLES, Antigone

Week 10:
November
7 – 11 T. PAPER DUE – First Draft
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
TH. SOPHOCLES, Antigone

Week 11: November
14 – 18 T. HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
TH. HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House

Week 12: November
21 – 25 T HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House
TH. HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House

Week 13: November
28 –
December 2 T. ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman
TH. ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman

Week 14: December
5 – 9 T. ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman
TH. PAPER DUE – Final Draft
ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman

Final Exam (30%)—December 19, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Grade scale: A+ 91% to 100%; A 85% to 90%; A- 80% to 84%; B+ 77% to 79%; B 73% to 76%; B-70% to 72%; C+ 67% to 69%; C 63% to 66%; C- 60% to 62%; D+ 55% to 59%; D 50% to 54%; F

Course Policies: Papers handed in after the due date will be subject to a reduction of one full letter grade per day late, for up to four days. An “A” paper, in other words, will receive a “B” grade if it is handed in one day late. After four days, the paper will receive a zero. All papers must be written in accordance with MLA rules for citation and style. Plagiarism is theft; if plagiarism is suspected, the matter will be investigated and, if found guilty, the student will fail the course and may face further penalty from the university. A missed test or final exam will receive a zero grade.

Required Texts: The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer; The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
You will be given a booklet containing grammar instruction and exercises. Please bring this to class with you for weeks two and three of the course.

Evaluation: Grammar Midterm (20%); 2 Papers (4-5 pp, 25% each); Final Exam (30%).

Week 1: Sept 8-10
Th Introduction to the course

Week 2: Sept 13-17
T ORWELL “Politics and the English Language”
Th Grammar / Essays

Week 3: Sept 20-24
T Grammar / Essays
Th Grammar / Essays

Week 4: Sept 27 – Oct 1
T Midterm Exam (20%)
Th FAULKNER “A Rose for Emily”

Week 5: Oct 4-8
T Review Midterm Exam / UPDIKE “A&P”
Th MELVILLE “Bartleby, The Scrivener”

Week 6: Oct 11-15
T PLATH, The Bell Jar
Th PLATH, The Bell Jar

Week 7: Oct 18-22
T PLATH, The Bell Jar
Th SHAKESPEARE “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” / ST. VINCENT-MILLAY “I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines” / THOMAS “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”

Week 8: Oct 25-29
T First Paper Due (20% + 5% corrections) / POUND “In a Station of the Metro” / WILLIAMS “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Th CUMMINGS “l(a” / JUSTICE “Order in the Streets”

Week 9: Nov 1-5
T ARNOLD “Dover Beach”
Th ELIOT “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Week 10: Nov 8-12
T ELIOT “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Th Remembrance Day – no class

Week 11: Nov 15-19
T SHAKESPEARE Othello
Th SHAKESPEARE Othello

Week 12: Nov 22-26
T SHAKESPEARE Othello
Th SHAKESPEARE Othello

Week 13: Nov 29- Dec 3
T SHAKESPEARE Othello
Th SHAKESPEARE Othello

Week 14: Dec 6-10
T GLASPELL Trifles
Th Second Paper Due (25%) Review for Final Exam

Final Exam (30%)—date TBA, during exam period

Texts: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (Bausch and Cassell); Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer); Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh)Evaluation: 10 one-page papers (best of 12), 10% each

Course Outline: In this course, we will study the rudiments of prose literature, toward becoming skilled analytical readers. Most of our readings, drawn from the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, will be short fictional works by authors such as Borges, Barthelme, Conrad, Hemingway, Mann, Poe and Tolstoy. Through examining various short texts, we will consider literary strategies and concepts such as narrative structure, voice, theme and character. We will also read two important twentieth-century novels: Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated. These two novels, while expressing the aesthetic and political concerns of modernism and postmodernism respectively, evince the psychological insight, philosophical complexity, and cultural critique that the novel form can achieve.

Week 1: Sept 8-10
Th Introduction to the course

Week 2: Sept 13-17
T Williams, “The Use of Force”
Th Cheever, “The Enormous Radio”

Week 3: Sept 20-24
T Kafka, The Metamorphosis *Paper #1 due
Th Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Week 4: Sept 27 – Oct 1
T Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” *Paper #2 due
Th Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Week 5: Oct 4-8
T Waugh, Vile Bodies *Paper #3 due
Th Waugh, Vile Bodies

Week 6: Oct 11-15
T Waugh, Vile Bodies *Paper #4 due
Th Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Week 7: Oct 18-22
T Conrad, Heart of Darkness *Paper #5 due
Th Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Week 8: Oct 25-29
T Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” * Paper #6 due
Th Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

Week 9: Nov 1-5
T Mann, Death in Venice *Paper #7 due
Th Mann, Death in Venice

Week 10: Nov 8-12
T Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” *Paper #8 due
Th Remembrance Day – no class

Week 11: Nov 15-19
T Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” *Paper #9 due
Th Barthelme, “Me and Miss Mandible”

Week 12: Nov 22-26
T Foer, Everything is Illuminated *Paper #10 due
Th Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Week 13: Nov 29- Dec 3
T Foer, Everything is Illuminated *Paper #11 due
Th Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Week 14: Dec 6-10
T Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Th Foer, Everything is Illuminated *Paper #12 due

Notes on evaluation: There are 12 short paper assignments. You may submit 12 papers, but only your top 10 grades will count toward your final grade. Questions for each paper will be provided at the beginning of term; on some weeks you will have a choice of two questions. Papers must be handed in personally at the beginning of lecture on the due date. Papers handed in late will not be accepted.

Papers must contain between 300 and 350 words. The text should be in 12 pt. Times New Roman font, double-spaced, and justified at the left margin only. Please, no cover pages—just write your name, the date, and assignment number at the top of the page. Any deviation from these guidelines will result in lost marks.

You do not have to provide a Works Cited page, unless you are using editions of texts other than the ones assigned for the course. You do need to provide page numbers for any quotations, however, in proper MLA format.

The papers will be graded based on intellectual content (6 marks) and clarity of expression (4 marks). You will be deducted 1/2 a mark for each spelling and grammatical mistake to a maximum of 6 marks.

In a paper with strong intellectual content, the following will apply:

The paper is on topic; it answers the question posed.
Textual evidence is provided to support critical claims.
The argument is reasonable, original, and is founded upon information in the text rather than unsubstantiated, subjective opinions.

A paper has clarity of expression if the following are true:

The argument is coherent and can be easily understood; it is not repetitive.
Words are used correctly. Ideas are expressed succinctly with no extraneous words or meaningless phrases.
Direct quotations are properly integrated.

Questions and Due Dates

1. What is the symbolic function of the radio in Cheever’s “The Radio”? September 21

2. In what sense is Kafka’s The Metamorphosis a critique of the traditional family unit? September 28

3. How do physical features of the house in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” reflect the internal experiences of its residents?
OR
In what way is the patient in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” an artist figure?
October 5

4. How does narrative structure in Waugh’s Vile Bodies mirror the society it depicts? October 12

5. Argue for or against: In Waugh’s Vile Bodies, Adam and Nina are sympathetic characters.
OR
What is the psychological function of the Congo River in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness?
October 19

6. At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells the widow that her name was the last word that Kurtz spoke. Why does he tell her this, and why is it ironic? October 26

7. In what sense is Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” a critique of bourgeois society? November 2

8. How does Aschenbach’s dream relate to his real experiences in Mann’s Death in Venice? November 9

9. In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” how does the physical setting parallel the personal conflict of the characters? November 16

10. What aspects of Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” identify it as a metafictional work?
OR
What is social criticism underlies the absurd scenario in Barthelme’s “Me and Miss Mandible”?
November 23

11. How do the three narrative frames in Foer’s Everything is Illuminated work together to produce a “unified” story? November 30

12. What are the various meanings of “illumination” in Foer’s Everything is Illuminated? December 9

My examination notes sheet for Neuroanatomy

In this course, we will read American poetry and prose from 1900 to the present, paying particular attention to the social and political conditions that have informed literary development in the twentieth century.

Required Texts: Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Version. 7th edition.
Innovations. Ed. Robert McLaughlan. Dalkey Archive Press.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Carson McCullers (1940).

Evaluation: Midterm Exam (20%); 2 Papers (4-5 pp, 25% each); Final Exam (30%).

Week 1: September 10.
TH. Introduction to the course / Realism and Naturalism

Week 2: September 14 – 18.
T. HENRY JAMES “Daisy Miller: A Study”
TH. SARAH ORNE JEWETT “A White Heron”

Week 3: September 21 – 25.
T. GERTRUDE STEIN from Tender Buttons and “A Little Novel” (Invs.)* / “Objects”
TH. ROBERT FROST “Mending Wall” / WALLACE STEVENS “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

Week 4: September 28 – October 2.
T. EZRA POUND “In a Station of the Metro” / WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS “The Red Wheelbarrow”
TH. EZRA POUND “Portrait d’une Femme” / ELIOT The Waste Land

Week 5: October 5 – 9.
T. T.S. ELIOT The Waste Land
TH. MINA LOY “Parturition” / H.D. “Leda” / MARIANNE MOORE “The Mind is an Enchanting Thing”

Week 6: October 12 – 16.
T. LANGSTON HUGHES “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” / CLAUDE MCKAY “The Lynching” / ZORA NEALE HURSTON “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
TH. Midterm Exam (20%)

Week 7: October 19 – 23.
T. CARSON MCCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
TH. CARSON MCCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Week 8: October 26 – 30.
T. CARSON MCCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
TH. Discuss Paper Assignment / CARSON MCCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Week 9: November 2 – 6.
T. CARSON MCCULLERS The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
TH. First Paper Due (25%) / WILLIAM FAUKNER “A Rose for Emily”

Week 10: November  9 – 13.
T. ERNEST HEMINGWAY “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
TH. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD “Babylon Revisited”

Week 11: November  16 – 20.
T. ALLEN GINSBERG Howl
TH. SYLVIA PLATH “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy”

Week 12: November  23 – 27.
T. ROBERT LOWELL “Skunk Hour”
TH. JOHN CHEEVER “The Swimmer”

Week 13: November  30 – December 4.
T. THOMAS PYNCHON “Entropy” / JOHN BARTH “Menelaiad” (Invs.)
TH. Second Paper Due (25%) / WILLIAM GADDIS “Szryk v. Village of Tatamount et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of Virginia No. 105-87” (Invs.)

Week 14: December 7 – 11.
T. CURTIS WHITE “Bonanza” (Invs.)
TH. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE “Little Expressionless Animals” (Invs.)

* “Invs.” Designates a work contained in Innovations (ed. McLaughlan)
Final Exam (30%)—date TBA, during exam period

Grade scale: A+ 91% to 100%; A 85% to 90%; A- 80% to 84%; B+ 77% to 79%; B 73% to 76%; B-70% to 72%; C+ 67% to 69%; C 63% to 66%; C- 60% to 62%; D+ 55% to 59%; D 50% to 54%; F <50%.

Course Policies: Papers handed in after the due date will be subject to a reduction of one full letter grade per day late, for up to four days. An “A” paper, in other words, will receive a “B” grade if it is handed in one day late. After four days, the paper will receive a zero. All papers must be written in accordance with MLA rules for citation and style. Plagiarism is theft; if plagiarism is suspected, the matter will be investigated and, if found guilty, the student will fail the course and may face further penalty from the university. A missed test or final exam will receive a zero grade.