Heartland Community College
Humanities & Fine Arts
Course Syllabus for Students
Course Prefix and Number: ENGL 232
Course Title: American Literature II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory Hours:
0
Days and times the course meets: 10:00-10:50 MWF ICB 1704
Catalog Description:
Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 101 is strongly recommended.
This class is a survey of major writers from the Civil War to the present.
Instructor Information:
Instructor name: Glen Bush
Phone number to contact instructor: 268-8621
Instructor e-mail address, if one: glen.bush@hcc.cc.il.us
Location of instructor’s office: 2018 ICB
Hours and days of instructor’s office hours: MWF 9:00-11:00
TR 11:00-12:00
Or By Appointment
Textbook:
Required:
Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. II, ed. Paul Lauter. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Relationship to Academic Development Programs and Transfer: (Indicate if course is
General Education/IAI)
ENGL 232 fulfills 3 of the 9 semester hours of credit in Humanities/Fine Arts required
for the A.A. or A.S. degree. It satisfies the Humanities component of this requirement.
ENGL 232 should transfer to other Illinois colleges and universities as the equivalent of
the General Education Core Curriculum course H3 915, described in the Illinois
Articulation Initiative. However, students should consult an academic advisor for
transfer information regarding particular institutions. Refer to the IAI web page for
information as well at www.itransfer.org
Course Objectives (Learning Outcomes):
Students who successfully complete ENGL 232 should be able to:
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Identify major American authors and their principal writings.
Place American authors in their appropriate historical periods and identify the
historical events that influenced their writing (D3).
Describe issues, trends, philosophical and literary movements, and principal ideas
relating to American literature (D5).
Define key literary terms, such as Realism, Naturalism, Modernism,
Postmodernism, Imagism, Black Arts Movement.
Evaluate some of the ways that readers read literary texts, such as formalist,
archetypal-mythological, feminist, afrocentric (P5).
Articulate in both writing and speech your thoughts and observations about what
you read (C1, P7).
Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research so as to develop a more
objective way of interpreting and analyzing primary and secondary literary
sources (C6).
Identify appropriate topics for scholarly research in ENGL 232, utilize standard
bibliographic and other research tools, select suitable sources and methodology,
and write papers presenting the results of your research while observing the
conventions of scholarly discourse (C6).
Course/Lab Outlines:
I. Early Modern Period – 1865-1910
II. Modern Period – 1910-1945
III. Late Modern Period – 1945-1970
IV. Contemporary and Postmodern Periods – 1970-Present
Methods of Instruction:
Instruction will consist of lectures, class discussion, essay exams, quizzes, in-class and out of
class readings, and research essays.
Course Policies:
Method of Evaluation (Tests/Exams, Grading System):
There will be four essay exams (the lowest grade of the four will be dropped) for 30%, a
final exam (also an essay exam) for 20%, and a research essay on a novel for 30%, and
class participation and attendance for 20%. Neither the final exam nor the research essay
can be dropped.
Final grades will be determined according the following scale:
92-100%
83-91%
74-82%
65-73%
Below 65%
A
B
C
D
F
Participation (or Attendance): Class attendance and participation are mandatory.
Three unexcused absences may be acceptable, but any more than three absences and
you, the student, stand a very good chance of having your grade lowered, possibly to an
F. The discretion is mine.
Class Participation: Required!
Incompletes: For the most part, incompletes are non-existent in this class.
Extra Credit: On rare occasions an extra credit assignment may be given to the class;
never are there individual extra credit assignments.
Make-up of tests and assignments: NONE!
Deadlines: This means DEADLINE, not maybe about this time! Exams are scheduled
during class! Outside assignments are due by 4:30pm on the date due. The
assignments must be either in my hand or in my office by 4:30pm. After 4:30pm no
assignment will be accepted and the grade for that assignment will automatically
become an F.
Required Writing and Reading:
There will be approximately 50 assigned readings, including short stories, poems, and essays.
In conjunction with these literary readings there will also be required critical essays that
discuss the literature and the literary movements. In addition to these readings, each student
will be required to read one novel, assigned by me, the instructor, and then to write a 10-15
typed page research essay on that novel.
Student Conduct: I expect you to conduct yourself as a reasonable, mature adult. I do
not accept childish or disrespectful conduct.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism: READ THE HCC POLICY!
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a fundamental principle of collegial life at Heartland Community College
and is essential to the credibility of the College’s educational programs. Moreover, because
grading may be competitive, students who misrepresent their academic work violate the right of
their fellow students. The College, therefore, views any act of academic dishonest as a serious
offense requiring disciplinary measures, including course failure, suspension, and even expulsion
from the College. In addition, an act of academic dishonesty may have unforeseen effects far
beyond any officially imposed penalties.
Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to cheating, aiding or
suborning cheating or other acts of academic dishonesty, plagiarism, misrepresentation of data,
falsification of academic records or documents and unauthorized access to computerized
academic or administrative records or systems. Definitions of these violations may be found in
the college catalog.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the presenting of others’ ideas as if they were your own. When you write a paper,
create a project, do a presentation or create anything original, it is assumed that all the work,
except for that which is attributed to another author or creator, is your own. Plagiarism is
considered a serious academic offense and may take the following forms:
1
Copying word-for-word from another source and not giving that source credit.
2
Paraphrasing the work of another and not giving that source credit.
3
Adopting a particularly apt phrase as your own.
4
Using an image or a copy of an image without crediting its source.
5
Paraphrasing someone else’s line of thinking in the development of a topic as if it
were your own.
6
Receiving excessive help from a friend or elsewhere, or using another project as
if it were your own.
Note that word-for-word copying is not the only form of plagiarism.
The penalties for plagiarism may be severe, ranging from failure on the particular piece
of work, failure in the course or expulsion from school in extreme cases.
[Adapted from the Modem Language Association’s MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers. New York: MLA, 1995: 26]
Support Services:
Heartland Library Information
www.hcc.cc.il.us/library
The Library, located within the Academic Support Center (ASC) on the Normal campus, provides
Heartland students with a variety of on-campus resources that support both class work and personal
inquiry. These include: reference tools (print and non-print), periodicals, audio-visual materials and
equipment, reserves, a general circulating collection, and a fiction collection. Computer terminals
provide access to various electronic resources, including Academic Universe, FirstSearch, and EbscoHost
databases; CARL online card catalog, and Internet access. Several electronic resources are accessible
from computers off campus. Students may borrow books from the fiction and general collections and
may renew materials, in person or by phone, if requests have not been placed on them.
Heartland students also have Interlibrary Loan privileges from Heartland Library. Items usually take 1 to
3 weeks from date of the order to arrive.
The Library maintains a quiet study environment. Assistance is available for all library and information
needs. Heartland Library is open Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
when the college is in session, but is closed on holidays that Heartland observes. Intersession and
summer hours are reduced.
Milner Library at Illinois State University is a public institution so you may use their collection on site. If
you want to request to check out materials, ask for a free Community Borrowers card application at the
Milner Library circulation desk. It is important that you have specific titles to request for check out when
you apply for the card. The card will give you access to their circulating collection for three months, with
a four week check out period. To qualify for this service you must live within 50 miles of Milner, have a
current state ID (driver's license) with current address on ID, and be over age 18. After you fill out the
application Milner will perform a background check on you for over due books, etc.
For more information about Library services please call the Library at 268-8200.
Tutoring and Academic Support
Heartland Community College offers learning assistance in various forms at no cost to Heartland
students at the Academic Support Center (ASC) in Normal and at the Pontiac and Lincoln
Centers. Tutors are available at convenient times throughout the week. Study groups, group
tutoring facilitated by a specially-trained tutor, are also available by request. Help is also
provided through instructional materials, study skills workshops, open computing, and the
Library. For more information about services available at each location, please call the ASC in
Normal at (309) 268-8235, the Pontiac Center (815) 842-6777; or the Lincoln Center (217) 7351731.
Academic Support Services (Academic Support Center) Lab www.hcc.cc.il.us/divisions/asc
[The following material must be on every syllabi. However, this text may be updated as needs warranted. Please
check either the HCC Intranet site in the Curriculum and Academic Standards folder or with the lead faculty
member for the most current site.]
Testing Center Lab www.hcc.cc.il.us/divisions/asc/testing
The Testing Center proctors make-up exams for students enrolled in traditional courses. In
addition, regularly scheduled exams for alternative delivery courses are also proctored at this
Center. Exams are proctored free of charge in a secure and quite environment. For more
information about exam proctoring services contact the Testing Center at (309) 268-8231.
Open Computing Lab www.hcc.cc.il.us/divisions/asc/complab
The Open Computing Lab provides free computing for HCC students at convenient times
throughout the week. The computer lab is staffed by trained Lab Assistants and offers the use of
approximately 70 computers, a scanner, a laser printer, and an electric typewriter.
Course Calendar:
August-September:
Pauline E. Hopkins, “General Washington: A Christmas Story” (193)
Mark Twain, “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in
Connecticut” (293) and “Corn-Pone Opinions” (303)
Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Passing of Grandison” (365)
Paul L. Dunbar, “Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker” (379);
“We Wear the Mask” (389); and “Sympathy” (392)
William D. Howells, “Editha” (434)
Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle” (498)
Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby” (529)
Stephen Crane, “A Man Said to the Universe” (634) and “There was a
Man with a Tongue of Wood” (635)
Jack London, “South of the Slot” (637)
Charlotte P. Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (725)
EXAM #1 – WED., SEPT. 19, 2001
September-October:
Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Exposition Address” (935)
W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (951)
Edith Wharton, “Roman Fever” (1071)
Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” (1149); “The Road Not Taken” (1153);
and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1159)
Ezra Pound, “Salutation the Second” (1218); “A Pact” (1219); and “A
Retrospect” (1220)
Eugene O’Neill, “The Hairy Ape” (1291)
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1399) and
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1405)
Marianne Moore, “Poetry” (1502) and “The Pangolin” (1506)
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (1522)
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” (1554)
Langston Hughes, “I, Too” (1618); “Harlem” (1619); “The Negro
Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1629); and “When the Negro Was in
Vogue” (1633)
Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat” (1672)
EXAM #2 – MONDAY, OCT. 22, 2001
October-November:
Tennessee Williams, “Portrait of a Madonna” (2101)
Eudora Welty, “The Wide Net” (2133)
Flannery O’Conner, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (2165)
Joyce C. Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
(2178)
Ralph Ellison, “Flying Home” (2205)
Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” (2407) and “Lady Lazarus” (2409)
Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” (2443)
Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” (2542)
Amiri Baraka, “Black People: This is Out Destiny” (2644)
Ernest Gaines, “The Sky is Gray” (2664)
Etheridge Knight, “The Idea of Ancestry” (2686) and “The Violent
Space” (2688)
EXAM #3 – FRIDAY, NOV. 16, 2001
November-December:
John Barth, “Lost in the Funhouse” (2877)
Donald Barthelme, “At the End of the Mechanical Age” (2894)
Ishmael Reed, “Flight to Canada” (2911)
Audre Lord, “Power” (2939)
Michael Herr, “Dispatches” (3025)
Bharati Mukherjee, “A Wife’s Story” (3191)
Leslie M. Silko, “Lullaby” (3202)
EXAM #4 – WED., DEC. 5, 2001
FINAL EXAM: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2001, 10:00-11:50AM