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COURSE OUTLINE & SYLLABUS: ENGLISH 1128
10:30-11:25 M/T/R/F
Instructor: Guy Wilkinson
e-mail: gwilkinson@langara.bc.ca / voice mail: (604) 323-2114
Office hours: A203
1:25 – 2:25 (M/T/R) / 12:25 - 2:25 (F)
Required Texts:
„ Short Fiction (6th ed.), Bohner & Grant
„ College Style Sheet (6th ed.) Furberg & Hopkins
Grading:
2 take-home essays (2 x 20%) / Quizzes & Assignments (10%) / midterm exam (10%) /
Research Essay (20%) / Final exam: (20%)
Attendance is mandatory. Students who miss classes without notification will lose 1 mark
per class.
Syllabus:
Week 1:
„ Course Introduction
„ Elements of Fiction: Short Fiction pgs. 4-29
Week 2:
„ “A Rose for Emily”: William Faulkner (404)
„ “Approaching Short Fiction Critically”: Short Fiction pgs. 1326-1338
„ Essay I handout
Week 3:
„ “The Rocking-Horse Winner” D.H. Lawrence (709)
„ “Writing about Short Fiction”: Short Fiction pgs. 1367-73
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Week 4:
„ Essay writing
„ “Writing about Short Fiction”: Short Fiction pgs.1377-80
Week 5:
„ “Hills Like White Elephants”: Ernest Hemingway (552)
„ Essay 1 due / Essay II handout
Week 6:
„ Thanksgiving
„ “Tuesday Siesta”: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (327)
Week 7:
„ Oral presentations: “The Third One”: Isaac Bashevis Singer
„ MT exam (in-class): “The Third One”
Week 8:
„ “A Country Doctor”: Franz Kafka (630)
„ Essay 2 due / Research essay handout
Week 9:
„ Library Research Workshop
„ Research Essays
Week 10:
„ “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”: Flannery O’Connor (904)
Week 11:
„ “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” Denis Johnson (593)
„ Research essay due
Week 12
„ “A Small, Good Thing”: Raymond Carver (179)
Week 13:
„ “And of Clay Are We Created”: Isabel Allende (57)
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