English 2323
Spring 2016
El Paso Community College Syllabus
Instructor’s Course Requirements
I.
Course Number and Instruction information
English 2323 British Literature Survey: 18th Century to Modern
Spring 2016 January 17-May 14, 2016
CRN: 24399 TIME: 2:26PM-3:11PM
Instructor’s name: Ms. Zermeño
Phone numbers: 937-2099 (office) (915)539-4901 email: gzerme@sisd.net
Room number 1211
II.
Texts and Materials
Greenblatt, Stephen, et.al, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2.
8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. (You can get the one big volume or the
three smaller volumes (D, E, and F) packaged together—the page numbers are the same.)
Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
III.
Course Requirements
Grading percentages for determining course grade are as follows:
Critical papers
Reading quizzes
Class participation
Class presentation
Total
40% (three papers)
30% (quizzes over reading assignments)
20% (discussions and *PowerPoint evaluations)
10% (*PowerPoint presentation)
100%
You will be required to take short, timed quizzes throughout the semester over the assigned
reading to make sure that you are reading and comprehending the material. You will also be
required to participate in discussions over the lectures and reading material.
Topics for your critical papers may be provided; however, you are strongly encouraged to develop your
own topics for the papers. All paper assignments must be typed. Each paper will be two pages long,
they will be *unresearched, and they must be completed using MLA style heading, pagination, and
quoting. *Your textbook with the work about which you are writing will be your only source.
The last day to drop with a W is Friday, April 15, 2016.
IV.
Instructor’s Policies
A. Attendance
Students must attend every class meeting. Two absences (excused or unexcused)
constitute an automatic withdrawal. Please make prior arrangements with the instructor,
either personally or by phone, if an absence becomes absolutely necessary on the day a test
or an assignment is due. In order for the instructor to consider if an absence is excused,
students should call her prior to class and let her know the reason for the absence.
Students who are unable to call ahead of time must call the instructor as soon as possible
after missing class. The following point must be stressed: contact must be made one way
or another and communication must take place between the student and the instructor in
order for her to decide whether the absence is excused. Remember that late work is not
permitted.
B. Tardiness
Arriving late to class should be avoided. Any tardy constitutes a deduction of points on
any “in-class” assignment, paper, or quiz held that day. However, tardiness will be dealt
with according to district policy. Five tardies constitutes one unexcused absence.
Academic dishonesty shall constitute a violation of rules and regulations and is punishable
as prescribed by Board Policies. Academic dishonesty shall include, but is not limited to:
cheating on a test, plagiarism, making false statements and collusion.
C. Cheating
Cheating is defined as: Students not adhering to the guidelines provided by their instructors
for completing academic work. Students may not claim as their own work any portion of
academic work that was completed by another student. Students may only use materials
approved by their instructor when completing an assignment or exam. Students may not
present same work for more than one course without obtaining approval from the instructor
of each course. Students must adhere to all course regulations. Violations of this standard
constitute cheating.
Students will receive zeros and may be dropped from the course for cheating. Cheating
consists of submitting someone else’s work in any way, shape, or form and expecting
credit for it. Cheating takes place in a variety of ways. Students should simply do their
own work in order to avoid any suspicion.
D. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as: All ideas, arguments, and phrases, submitted without attribution
to other sources, must be the creative product of the student. Thus, all text passages taken
from the works of other authors (published or unpublished) must be properly cited. The
same applies to paraphrased text, opinions, data, examples, illustrations, and all other
creative work. Violations of this standard constitute plagiarism.
Students may not fabricate:
Fabrication is defined as: All experimental data, observations, interviews, statistical
surveys, and other information collected and reported as part of academic work must be
authentic. Any alteration, e.g., the removal of statistical outliers, must be clearly
documented. Data must not be falsified in any way. Violations of this standard constitute
fabrication.
Collusion is defined as: Students providing, seeking or accepting information about any
academic work to or from another student without the authorization of the instructor.
Students may only collaborate on academic work within the limits prescribed by their
instructors. Violations of this standard constitute collusion.
E. Respect others
In consideration of others, students should arrive on time to class, avoid eating in class,
turn cell phones off completely (no single beep, no low ring, no vibration, no text
messages…just turn them off!), refrain from loud talking when class is working diligently
on any given task (save your personal talk for after class), and listen politely when others
are speaking before the class, regardless if it is the instructor or a fellow student. Students
are expected to be polite, courteous, and respectful. Finally, except under dire
circumstances, do not ask to leave early. This semester will be rigorous and demanding.
Any sign of impoliteness or discourtesy constitutes immediate action: a verbal or written
reprimand, deduction of points from assignments, or office referral.
Please note: By continuing to be enrolled in this class, you are indicating to me that you understand and
agree to all class policies.
V.
Calendar
Week One
01/18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 1/18/2016 Review syllabus, class policies,
and calendar. Begin reading Shelley, Frankenstein. To be on-going for 4
weeks.
Week Two
01/25 Begin reading Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pp.
170-195. Read lecture on the Romantic Age Finish A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman, pp. 170-195. Read lecture titled, “The Historical
Background of the 18th c” Census Date 2/3/2016
Week Three
02/03
Blake, from Songs of Innocence: “The Lamb,” p. 83; “The Little Black
Boy,” p. 84; “The Chimney Sweeper,” p. 85. From Songs of Experience:
“The Chimney Sweeper,” p. 90; “The Tyger,” p. 92; “London,” p. 94;
Week Four
02/8
“Infant Sorrow,” p. 95. Burns, “To a Mouse,” p. 135; “Auld Lang
Syne,” p. 137; “A Red, Red Rose,” p. 145. Read lecture on other 18th c.
revolutions.
Week Five
02/15
Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” p.
258;“I wandered lonely as a cloud,” p. 305; “The Solitary Reaper,” p. 314;
“Composed on Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” p. 317;
“Mutability,” p. 320. Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” p.
430; “Kubla Khan,” p. 446. Read lecture on Romantic Art.
Final on Frankenstein
Week Six
02/22 Byron, “She walks in beauty,” p. 612; “When we two parted,” p. 613; “So
we’ll go no more a roving,” p. 616. Shelley, “Ozymandias,” p. 768; “To a
Sky-Lark,” p. 817.
Week Seven
02/29
Week Eight
03/07 thru 03/13
Week Nine
03/14
Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” p. 880; “When I have
fears that I may cease to be,” p. 888; “La Belle Same sans Merci: A
Ballad,” p. 899; “Ode to a Nightingale,” p. 903; “Ode on a Grecian Urn,”
p. 905. Romantic Age Paper due Friday, March 4, 2016.
Spring Break!!! EPCC
Mill, from The Subjection of Women, pp. 1061-1070.
Week Ten
03/21
Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese, sonnets 21, 22, 32, and 43,
pp. 1085-1085. Tennyson, “The Lady of Shallot,” p. 1114; “The LotusEaters,” p. 1119; “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” p. 1188; “Crossing
the Bar,” p. 1211. Read two lectures: one on the early and middle periods
of Victorian England and one on wars and uprisings of this period.
Week Eleven
03/28
Cesar Chavez Day 3/31/2016
Dickens, “A Visit to Newgate,” pp. 1239-1248. Browning, “Porphyria’s
Lover,” p. 1252; “My Last Duchess,” p. 1255; “Love among the Ruins,” p.
1264. Read lecture on Victorian literature. Bronte, “I’m happiest when
most away,” p. 1311; “The Night-Wind,” p. 1312; “Remembrance,” p.
1313, “Stars,” p. 1314; “The Prisoner, A Fragment,” p. 1315.
Week Twelve
04/04 Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” p. 1466; Carroll, “Jaberwocky,” p. 1530.
Darwin, from The Origin of Species, pp. 1539-1545 and from The Descent
of Man, pp. 1546-1549. Read lecture on late Victorian England and a
lecture on new ideas and controversies during this era.
Week Thirteen
04/11
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, pp. 1698-1740.
Last day to drop with a “W” 4/15/2016
Victorian Age Paper due Thursday, April 14, 2016.
Good Friday 4/17/2016
Week Fourteen
04/18
Hardy, “Hap,” p. 1868; “The Darkling Thrush,” p.1871;
“Channel Firing,” p. 1877; “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” p. 1879.
World War I poets—Brooke, “The Soldier,” p. 1955. Sassoon, “Glory of
Women,” p. 1962. Rosenberg, “Break of Day in the Trenches,” p. 1967.
Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” p. 1971; “Dulce et Decorum Est,” p.
1974; “Strange Meeting,” p. 1975. Graves from Goodbye to All That, pp.
1985-1987. Read lecture on the Modern Age and a lecture on World War
I.
Week Fifteen
04/25
Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” p. 2025; “Easter,
1916,” p. 2031;
“Sailing to Byzantium,” p. 2040. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums,”
pp. 2245-2258. Read lecture on the New Writing in the Modern Age.
Week Sixteen
05/02 Eliot, “The Waste Land,” pp. 2295-2308. Auden, “The Unknown
Citizen,” p. 2431. Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” p.
2450. Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair,” pp. 2854-2863. Read lecture on the
rise of fascism and World War II.
Week Seventeen 05/9
*Calendar is subject to change.
Modern Age paper due on Wednesday, May 11th, 2016.