SYLLABUS - ENGLISH 2333 - WORLD LITERATURE II - SPRING 2013
Dr. Chris Grooms, H 210, H 205 suite, 972-881-5952, Office: MW: 10 a.m.- 12 noon, W: 6-7 p.m.; TR: 9-10 a.m.; F, by appt.
E-mail: c g r o o m s @ c o l l i n . e d u , Course web site: iw s.collin.edu/grooms/w l2syl .htm
A survey of world literature from the seventeenth century to the present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama,
and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and
traditions. Prerequistes: English 1302 or English 2311
TEXTBOOKS:
Lawall, Sarah , and Maynard Mack, gen. eds., The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Volume 2, Shorter 2/e.
Hult, Christine A., and Thomas N. Huckin, eds., The Brief New Century Handbook, 4/e
Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7/e.
(Recommended: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
GRADE PERCENTAGES / SCALE: Essays: 40%, Response papers: 30%, Reading Quizzes: 10%, Final essay: 20%;
A = 90+, B = 80-89, C = 70-79, D = 60-69, F = -59
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic
perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
 Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious
contexts of different literary periods.
 Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical
periods or in different regions.
 Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
 Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various
critical approaches to literature.
 Demonstrate personal responsibility through the ethical use of intellectual property.
ABSENCE POLICY
Because I take attendance at the beginning of each class, tardiness counts as an absence. Chronic tardiness interferes with
teaching and learning and as such may be subject to disciplinary procedures. (2012-2013 Student Handbook, section 7-2.4,
item C). You cannot pass this course with four absences, excused or otherwise. You are responsible for your own
attendance and work. Friday, March 22, is the last day to withdraw with a “W”.
Note: With reference to all Collin College credit college courses, “a course in which a grade (including W) has been received
can be repeated only one time to replace the grade.” (Collin College Catalog, 2012-2013, “Repeating Courses,” 26). Note Texas
Education Code 51.907: students who enroll for the Fall 2007 semester or any subsequent semester are subject to the course
drop limit of six course drops. This includes any course a transfer student has dropped at another institution (2012-2013
Student Handbook, section 6.37, “Withdrawal Policy”).
ADA STATEMENT
Collin County Community College provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals who are students with
disabilities (2012-2013 Student Handbook, section 5.2, “Accommodations at Collin County for Equal Support Services ACCESS”). Students should provide the class instructor with a copy of the letter of accommodation as soon as they receive
such written and signed confirmation from the ACCESS office. For specific information on policies and processes for
accommodation, contact ACCESS at 972-881-5898 (Voice/TTY) - ACCESS offices: Suite G-200, SCC.
COURSE ACTIVITIES AND ACADEMIC GUIDELINES
 E S S A Y L E N G T H A N D F O R M A T : Essays are 600 words minimum; Response Papers are 400 words minimum.
Format all work with MLA format guidelines for parenthetical documentation; no Works Cited page is necessary for
course textbook citations.
 R E V I S I O N : With the revision guidelines, carefully review each essay or response paper both before submission and
after receiving a grade to reveal strengths and eliminate weaknesses in your writing as the course progresses.
Ask the instructor for additional help during office hours before going to the Writing Center.
 L A T E W O R K : Subtract one full letter grade (10 points) from the grade on any essay or response paper for each
class day (TR) that it is late. After two class days beyond the due date, I will not accept a late response paper or
essay. For submissions, you must be in attendance and turn in the essay or response paper to the instructor at the
end of the class period on the due date. I do not accept e-mail or office submissions. Failure to submit all three
assigned major essays, including the final essay, constitutes a ground for failure in the course.
 R E A D I N G Q U I Z Z E S : I give reading quizzes at the beginning of class on calendar dates that require readings
(including introductions, biographies, timelines, and selected works). You may not make up in-class quizzes. I drop
the lowest reading quiz grade from your semester average at the end of the course. Please complete the readings for
each calendar date before class.
 P O R T A B L E P H O N E S A N D C O M P U T E R S : Please turn off and store all portable phones and/or laptop computers with Web
access during class time. If you need to monitor any outside communication for emergency purposes during a specific
class, please set your phone on vibrate and inform the instructor before class begins. It is an academic offence to engage “in
the use of media and telecommunication devices during class” (2012-2013 Student Handbook, section 7.2-4, item S,
“Student Code of Conduct,”; “Academic Etiquette and the College Experience,” section 6.1).
 A C A D E M I C E T H I C S : The College District may initiate disciplinary proceedings against a student accused of
scholastic dishonesty. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, statements, acts, or omissions related to
applications for enrollment or the award of a degree, and/or the submission as one’s own work material that is not
one’s own. Scholastic dishonesty may involve, but is not limited to, one or more of the following acts: cheating,
plagiarism, collusion, use of annotated texts or teacher’s editions, and/or falsifying academic records. Please note
the following definitions:
Plagiarism is the use of an author’s words or ideas as if they were one’s own without giving credit to the source,
including, but not limited to, failure to acknowledge a direct quotation. Other than sources documented and cited
according to MLA standards, all work submitted for a grade must be your own original work and never before
submitted for a grade in any previous or current course. You may neither revise a previous response paper and submit
it as a major essay nor submit previous or current work in another course. Submitting work by other writers without
MLA documentation (including Web-based texts) as original work in this course, i.e. plagiarism, constitutes a ground
for failure in this course (see 2012-2013 Student Handbook, section 7-2.3, “Scholastic Dishonesty: Plagiarism, Cheating,
Collusion”); The Brief New Century Handbook, 4/e., Part 2, Section 10b: 3-5; MLA Handbook, Chapter 2).
Cheating is the willful giving or receiving of information in an unauthorized manner during an examination, illicitly
obtaining examination questions in advance, copying computer or Internet files, using someone else’s work for
assignments as if it were one’s own, or any other dishonest means of attempting to fulfill the requirements of a course.
Collusion is intentionally aiding or attempting to aid another in an act of scholastic dishonesty, including but not
limited to, providing a paper or project to another student; providing an inappropriate level of assistance;
communicating answers to a classmate during an examination; removing tests or answer sheets from a test site,
and allowing a classmate to copy answers.
C ALENDAR – E NGLISH 2333 – W ORLD L ITERATURE II - S PRING 2013
Please complete the following readings (introductions, biographies, timelines, and works) by the calendar week and day.
JANUARY
1: (22) - Introduction and orientation to the course.
(24) - Writing sample, writing about literature.
2: (29) - Native America and Europe in the New World, 3-7, Time Line, 8-9;
From FLORENTINE CODEX (1547-1579), 10-11; [The Midwife Addresses...], both selections, 11-13.
(31) - CANTARES MEXICANOS (1550-1581), 13-14, Song IV, Song XII, 15-16.
FEBRUARY
3: (5) - Vernacular Literature in China, 35-37, Time Line, 38-39;
WU CH’ENG-EN (ca. 1506-1581), 40-41; From Monkey, Chapter 1, 41-47.
(7) - CAO XUEQIN (TS’AO HSÜEH-CH’IN) (1715-1763), 55-57;
From The Story of the Stone, Volume 1, Chapter 1, 58-64.
4: (12) - The Enlightenment in Europe, 91-95, Time Line, 96-97;
JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIÈRE (1622-1673), 98-99;
Tartuffe, Preface, 100-104; First-Third Petitions, 104-107.
(14) - Tartuffe, 107-155.
5: (19) - SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695), 155-157; Reply to Sor Filotea..., 157-183.
(21) - Reply to Sor Filotea..., 157-183 (cont.).
6: (26) - The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan, 249-251, Time Line, 252-253;
MATSUO BASHO (1644-1694), 253-256.
(28) - The Narrow Road of the Interior, 257-279.
MARCH
7:
(5) - The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism, 281-287, Time Line, 288-290;
JEAN-JAQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778), 291-292.
(7) - From Confessions, Part I, 293-314.
SPRING BREAK – MARCH 11-17
8: (19) - WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827), 421-422,
From Songs of Innocence, 423-426, from Songs of Experience, 426-429,
"Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau," 429, "And Did Those Feet," 430.
(21) - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1827), 432-435,
“Ode on Intimations of Immortality," 438-443, "The World Is Too Much With Us," 443-444.
MARCH 22: LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM CLASSES WITH A “W.”
9: (26) - JOHN KEATS (1795-1821), 444-445; “Bright Star,” 446, “To Autumn.” 452-453.
(28) - WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892), 485-487,
from Song of Myself, 487-493, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” 493-498.
Essay One due.
APRIL
10: (2) - The Nineteenth Century: Realism and Symbolism, 509-515, Time Line, 516-517;
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880), 518-520, “A Simple Heart,” 520-542.
(4) - CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867), 596-599,
From The Flowers of Evil, “To the Reader,” 600-601, “Correspondences,” 601, “A Carcass,” 603.
From Paris Spleen, “Anywhere Out in the World,” 607.
11: (9) - The Twentieth Century, 765-770, Time Line, 771-776;
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939), 847-850, “Easter 1916,” 850-852, "The Second Coming," 852-853.
(11) - VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941), 921-924, "A Room of One's Own," Chapters 2-3, 924-943.
12: (16) - T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965), 978-980, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," 981-984, The Wasteland, 984-996.
(18) - ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966), 997-1000, "Requiem," 1000-1007.
13: (23) - FREDRICO GARCÍA LORCA (1898-1936), 1007-1009, "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías," 1009-1016.
(25) - NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (1911-2006), 1026-1029, "Zaabalawi," 1029-1037.
Essay Two due.
14: (30) - ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960), 1037-1040, "The Guest," 1041-1049.
MAY
(2) - GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (born 1928), 1088-1091, "Death Constant Beyond Love," 1091-1097.
Final Essay prompts.
15 (7) - LESLIE MARMON SILKO (born 1948), 1201-1204, “Yellow Woman,” 1205-1211.
(9) - Preparation for the final essay (thesis statement workshop).
16: (14) - Final Essay (in-class, Tuesday, May 14), 10 a.m.-12:00 noon.
COURSE WEB SITE: iws.ccccd.edu/grooms/w l2syl.htm
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