ENGLISH 201
MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS
Instructor: Dr. Bruce R. Magee
Spring Quarter 2003-2004

English 201-004 
Room: GTM 201
Time: 12:30-1:45 MWF
 Home Page: 
http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee
http://garts.latech.edu/bmagee
E-mail: 
bmagee@LaTech.Edu
Office: GTM 222 
Phone: 257-3033 
Hours: 11:30-12:30 MWF 
1:45-2:45 MWF
12:00-2:00 TTh
or by appointment
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This course is designed to introduce the most important British writers from the Medieval Period to the present. Given this scope, the course can provide only a limited study of any writer. Daily assignments are given on the syllabus so that you will know what is expected for each class. Follow the syllabus closely; read each assignment before coming to class. There will be three tests. The final will NOT be cumulative.

Textbooks

Attendance Requirements

GRADES
Daily Quizzes 60%
In-class Essay Exam 15%
Paper 15%
Attendance 10%
Total 100%
The grading scale is A: 90-102%, B: 80-89%, C: 70-79%, D: 60-69%, F:0-59%.
 
Graded Material
In the event of a question regarding an exam grade or final grade, it will be the responsibility of the student to retain and present graded materials which have been returned for student possession during the quarter. 

Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
Students needing testing or classroom accommodations based on a disability are encouraged to discuss those needs with me as soon as possible. 

Honor Code
In accordance with the Academic Honor Code, students pledge the following: Being a student of a higher standard, I pledge to embody the principles of academic integrity.

English 201 over the Internet: Requirements

Sometimes this course is offered as an Internet class.  The readings are mostly the same as in my regular 201 classes.  I'm setting up the assignments as though the class is a T-Th class so people will be able to pace themselves. I'll be posting my notes to my web site before the quarter starts. We'll meet once every 2 weeks to have a quiz over the material covered in that period.  This will help keep everybody doing their work. I'm not sure what day.  We'll get the period that's convenient to the most people & work in the rest maybe at a secondary time. 

We'll have one essay exam during the quarter & an outside mini-research paper (These are standard for all the 201 & 202 classes). 

If you want to take the class, come by my office (GTM 222) & I'll sign your blue sheet.
Note - When the syllabus lists only the first page of a selection, read the whole selection.
 
ASSIGNMENTS
Packet Page
Registration Week: March 10-12
Period 1
Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period 1-21
3 
Beowulf 23 (Note: When I just give the first page number, read the entire selection.)
8 
Genesis A & B (available only on the web site & in the packet)
40c-n
 
Week 1: March 15-19
Period 1
Finish Beowulf today  
"Dream of the Rood"
15a
 
Period 2
Introduction to the Medieval period
16 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 119
23 
 
Period 3
Finish Sir Gawain  
 
Week 2: March 22-26
Period 1
Chaucer "The Wife of Bath's Tale"189, 216-243
28 
"Phyllis and Aristotle" (available only on the web site & in the packet)
31 
Jerome
30a-b
Psalm 50 (51)
40o
 
Period 2
34 
34a 
35 
40 
40y
 
Period 3
Watch Richard III  
 
Week 3: March 29-April 2
Period 1 
41 
41 
43 
44 
40a-b, p-z 
 
Period 2
  • Donne "Ecstasy" 612
    • "Valediction" 611 
    • "Death Be Not Proud" 623 
    • "Batter My Heart" 624
  • Herbert "Collar" 663
    • "Easter Wings" 662
    • "Jordon I" 662
    • "Love III" 665
  • Marvell "Coy Mistress" 679
    • "Garden" 683
92 
96 
98 
 
Period 3
Finish watching Richard III  
 
Week 4: April 5-8
Period 1
  • Ben Jonson 
    • "To My Book" 639 
    • "On My First Daughter" 639
    • "On My First Son" 640
    • "On Giles and Joan" 640
    • "Queen and Huntress" (647)
  • Herrick "To the Virgins" 670 
    • "Corinna's Gone A-Maying" 668 
    • "To His Mistress, Objecting to Him" (www only)
102 
103 
 
Period 2
40w-x 
106 
111a
 
Period 3
Finish Paradise Lost  
 
Week 5: April 13-16
Period 1
112 
134 
 
Period 2
  • Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels 969
    • "A Modest Proposal" 1113
  • Pope Rape of the Lock 1134-1153
135A 
136 
 
Period 3
Finish Rape of the Lock
Introduction to The Romantic Period 1313-1335
139 
 
Week 6: April 19-23
Period 1
140 
152 
 
Period 2
  • Research Paper Due Today
  • Blake  
    • Poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience :
      • "The Lamb" 1351 
      • "The Tyger" 1359 
      • "Garden of Love" 1361 
      • "Infant Joy" 1354
      • "Infant Sorrow" 1363 
      • "To Tirzah" 1363
      • "The Divine Image" 1353 
      • "A Divine Image" 1364 
      • "Human Abstract" 1362
    • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1377 
2 
162 
 
Period 3
Finish William Blake discussion  
 
Week 7: April 26-30
Period 1
  • Byron "She Walks in Beauty" 1640
    • "When We 2 Parted" 1642 
    • "Darkness" 1642 
  • Shelley, P. "Mutability" 1713 
    • "Mont Blanc" 1714 
    • "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" 1717 
    • "Ozymandias" 1719 
  • Keats "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" 1798 
    • "To Homer" 1803
    • "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 1820
167 
168 
170 
 
Period 2
Essay Exam
1 
 
Period 3
ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1580 
172
 
Week 8: May 3-7
Period 1
  • Wordsworth "We are 7" 1427 
    • "The Tables Turned" 1431 
    • "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" 1432 
    • "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" 1478
    • "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" 1479
    • "The world is too much with us" 1491 
174 
 
Period 2
176 
177 
179 
 
Period 3
Finish Tennyson discussion  
 
Week 9: May 10-14
Period 1
184 
186 
187 
189 
 
Period 2
197 
198 
198 
 
Period 3
205A
 
 

206 
 
Week 10: May 17-21
Period 1
206a
207 
211 
210a 
212 
 
Period 2
  • Eliot "Hippopotamus" (web site only)
    • "The Waste Land" 2612
    • "Sweeny Among the Nightingales" 2611
    • "Journey of the Magi" 2630
    • "The Hollow Men" 2627
  • Auden "The Shield of Achilles" 2695
  • Homer The Iliad 18. 478-608 (website only)
215 
226 
 
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