English Reading
Instructor: Yauling Hsieh
Reading Texts: Active : Skills for Reading: 4
Contemporary American Short Stories
Evaluation: Mid-term Exam: 30%
Final Exam:
30%
Presentation:
30%
Attendance:
10%
Tentative Outline
Week
1
2
Content
Introduction. Unit 9: A New Generation of Thinking.
A Short Story. Writing Exercise.
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Unit 10: It’s Dinner Time! Discussion: Mind and Memory
Discussion: Food and Menu.
Group 1 Presentation. Writing Exercise.
Unit 11: Beyond Planet Earth. A Short Story.
Mid-term Exam
Group 2 Presentation. Discussion: Astronomy and Astrology
Unit 12: Energy for Life.
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Group 3 Presentation. Writing Exercise.
Unit 13: It’s All in the Mind. A Short Story.
Group 4 Presentation. Discussion: Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Unit 14: Language and Life. Group 5 Presentation.
Unit 15: The Natural World. A Short Story.
Group 6 Presentation. Discussion: Evolution and Ecology.
Unit 16: Music: Influence and Innovation. Discussion: Trend.
Final Exam.
Gender and Feminism - Short Stories: Spring 2004
Instructor: Yauling Hsieh
Description: This course will start with a brief introduction on the history of the
feminist movement and its influence in English literature, including those of
minority groups. The focus of the course, however, is on short stories that
deal with the issues of gender and women. Therefore, we will read such
short stories by both male and female authors from the 19th century to
contemporary and discuss the issues that are raised in these texts.
Required Text: Norton’s Anthology of Literature by Women
And Handouts
Evaluation: Mid-term Examination
25%
Final Examination
25%
Class presentation and a short paper 25%
Class participation and attendance 25%
(3 absence for no reason will lose 50% of the total grade)
Tentative Outline
week
1
2
content
Class Organization and Introduction
The Stolen Party, The Awakening
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Pat and Pan
The Monument
Eleven, Sally
Redclyffe Hall: Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
Anzia Yezierska: Where Lovers Dream
Mid-term Examination
Mansfield: The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Virginia Woolf: New Dress
Jean Rhys: The Insect World
12
13
14
15
16
17
Mary Lavin: In a Café
Hisaye Yamamoto: Seventeen Syllables
Nadine Gordimer: Town and Country Lovers
Margaret Lawrence: The Loons
General Discussion. Deadline for Short Paper.
Final Examination
European Literature – Spring 2005
Instructor: Yauling Hsieh
Description: This is an introductory course for senior students in the discipline of
Western Literary studies and in part designed for students continuing graduate work in
Western literature. The course will be supplemented with music, paintings and films,
and its emphasis will focus on analysis of representative works reflecting main
currents of western literature and thought.
Required Text: The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces (II)
Evaluation: Final Examination
Class presentation
Attendance
- 60%
- 30%
- 10%
1
2,3
4,5
6,7
Tentative Outline
Class Organization and Introduction. General Discussion.
Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Checkov: Cherry Orchard
8
9,10
Modernism
Pirandello: SixCharacters in Search of an Author
11.12
13
14
Kafka: The Metamorphosis
Mahfouz: Zaabalawi. Marquez: Death Constant Beyond Love
Final Examination
English Literature (II) -- Spring 2005
Instructor: Yauling Hsieh
Required Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature (II)
Evaluation: Mid-term Exam
40%
Final Exam
40%
Class Presentation and Attendance
20%
Tentative Outline
Week
1
2,3
Content
Introduction and Organization
Keats: “The Eve of ST. Agnes,”“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad,”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
4
5
6
7,8
9
10, 11
The Victorian Age: Elizabeth Browning: “Aurora Leigh”
Robert Browning: “Prophyria‘s Lover,” “My Last Duchess”
Elizabeth Browning: Aurora Leigh
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Mid-Term Exam
The Twentieth Century
Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren‘s Profession
12,13
14
15
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Yeats: “Easter 1916,” “Sailing to Byzantaium,”“Among School Children”
Virginia Woolf: “The Mark on the Wall,” A Room of One’s Own
(Shakespear’s Sister)
James Joyce: “The Dead”
Final Exam
16
17