ENGLISH 201-051
MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS
Instructor: Dr. Bruce R. Magee
Winter Quarter 2001-2002

English 201-051 
Room: GTM 307
Time: 6:00-7:50 TTh
Home Page: 
http://garts.latech.edu/bmagee

E-mail: 

bmagee@LaTech.Edu

 
Office: GTM 222 
Phone: 257-3033 
Hours: 8:00-9:30 MWF 
1:45-2:15 MWF
8:00-10:00 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

Because this is a course offered via the World Wide Web, attendance is not a part of your grade. I will schedule times for those of you in Rust onto meet to take the tests.  If you live further away, you will need to work with me in arranging to take the tests under a proctor in your area.
 

English 201 over the Internet: Requirements

We'll be studying British literature.  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.
 

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: November 28-30
Period 1
Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period. 1-21
Beowulf 23 (Note: When I just give the first page number, read the entire selection.)
Week 1: December 3-7
Period 1
Finish Beowulf today  
Period 2
Introduction to the Medieval period
16 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 119
23 
Week 2: December 10-14
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
Period 2
34
35
 

40 

Week 3: December 17-January 4
Period 1 
41
41
43

44


 

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 

Week 4: January 7-11
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
106 
Week 5: January 14-18
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 

Week 6: January 21-25
Period 1
139
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 
Week 7: January 28-February 1
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
Week 8: February 4-8
Period 1
  • Coleridge Ancient Mariner 1580 
  • 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 
172
174 
Period 2
176
177
179 
Week 9: February 11-15
Period 1
184
 
 

186
187
189 

Period 2
197
198
198
 
 

205a 

Week 10: February 18-25
Period 1
 

206

207
210a
211
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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