Calumet College of St. Joseph
SYLLABUS FOR WORLD LITERATURE II

Term: Spring, 2000-2001 (002) (January 10 - April 19, 2000)

Course Number: ENG 231

Instructor: Dr. Martin

Course Description:

This course continues the classical literature studies of English 230 with emphasis on romantic, realistic, and modern literature. It also presents the student with major works in translation from French, Spanish, Russian, and African classics.

Prerequisites:

None

Textbooks:

THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD MASTERPIECES, 7^th edition, volume 2.

THE GRAND INQUISITOR by Dostoevsky (paperback)

Statement of Plagiarism:

If an instructor or other Calumet College of St. Joseph personnel find that a student has plagiarized or been involved in another form of academic dishonesty, the instructor or other personnel may elect to bring the matter up for judicial review. The maximum penalty for any form of academic dishonesty is dismissal from the College. The procedures for judicial review are listed under the section of CCSJ handbook that addresses student grievances.

Calumet College of St. Joseph adheres to citation guidelines as prescribed by the particular discipline (i.e., MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style or Turabian.). All of these guidelines are available in the Calumet College of St. Joseph library or bookstore. These texts outline how to cite references from a variety of sources, including electronic media.

Withdrawal from Classes Policy:

Please see the Degree Completion Program’s Student Handbook for withdrawal policy. All withdrawals are completed through the Degree Completion Academic Advisor’s office.

Class Policy on Attendance:

Students are expected to attend every class, as a large portion of the class and grade depends upon in class discussions. If a student misses more than nine hours (3 – 3-hour classes) it will result in failure or the student will have to withdrawal from the class.

Class Policy for Assignments:

Students will have to do all reading as assigned. Students will also be expected to give an oral report and to take and pass a midterm and a final. Students who do very poorly on the midterm are afforded an opportunity to retake an exam on that same material. All students will do a written report, usually a coherent re-write to the questions on the midterm exam.

Learning Outcomes/Student Objectives:

Students in this course will:

· Learn a working knowledge of the literature of the world from the 17^th century up to and including the contemporary times.

· Special attention will be given to the English and American classics, but also the plays, fiction and poetry of both Europe and East Africa and other Native cultures.

Grade:

Grades will be based on the following: in class discussions, exams, and reports. If students do very poorly on just one of those, that will be counted less in their final grade.

Agenda

Week 1: Intro to the age of the enlightenment

“Tartuffe” by Moliere (Fench)

Read: Jonathan Swift: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, part IV.

A Voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms.

Week 2: Discussion of Swift.

Reading of “The Rape of the Lock” by Pope

Read: Pope’s “Essay on Man” and Voltaire’s CANDICE

Week 3: Discussion of Candide

Introduction to the age of romanticism

Begin the reading of romantic poets:

a) Blake

Read: “The Queen of Spades” by Pushkin

Week 4: Finish the poetry of Blake

The poems of Wordsworth Coleridge

Read: “Billy Budd” by Melville

Week 5 : The poetry of Shelly and the Poems of Keats

Take some of the poems of the continental romantics

Read: Begin Madame Bovary by Flaubert

Week 6 : The poems of Walt Whitman: Song of Myself and Out of the Cradle.

Read: Madame Bovary

Week 7: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Read: Finish Madame Bovary

Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky

Discuss “The Queen of Spades” and “Billy Budd”

Week 8: MID – TERM EXAM

Week 9: Discussion of Madame Bovary

Poems of Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud

Read: the Death of Ivan Ilyich

Week 10: Discuss the Death of Ivan Ilyich

Notes From the Underground

Read: “The Grand Inquisitor” by Dostoevsky

“Hedda Gabler” by Ibsen

Week 11: Discuss Dostoevsky

Ibsen: “Hedda Gabler”

Zuni poetry

Poems of Yeats

Read: Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author

Joyce: “The Dead”

Kafka: “The Metamorphosis”

Week 12: Discuss Pirandello, Joyce, Kafka

Poems of Wallace Stevens

Poems of T. S. Eliot

Read: Faulkner: the Bear, Camus: The Guest, O’Connor: A Good Man to Find.

Week 13: Discuss Faulkner, Camus, and O’Connor

Read: Marquez: Death Constand Beyond Love, Achebe: Things Fall Apart, Silko: Yellow Woman

Week 14: Discuss Marquez, Achebe, Silko

Week 15: FINAL