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 virgina woolf |
 james joyce |
 gertrude stein and alice b. toklas |
 ernest hemingway |
 f. scott fitzgerald |
 william faulkner |
 ford madox ford |
 joseph conrad |
 d. h. lawrence |
 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon-Picasso |
 john dos passos |
 L'apres-midi d'un faun--Stravinsky |
Course Syllabus, Fall 2003
Required Novels:
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
Dos Passos, John. USA: Volume 1: The 42nd Parallel
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
Ford, Ford Maddox. The Good Soldier
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway
(Books are available at The Little Professor Book Center on Placentia Ave, in the old Kinko’s Center. They are also available online from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble, and they can be found, for the most part, in local book stores.)
Course Description:
English 462 Modern British and American Novel is an upper division period course which fulfills one of the genre, period, theory requirements for the English major. English 462 may also be used as an elective in English and Comparative Literature. The course is available for a letter grade only. The course covers the period in English and American literature from 1900 to 1940, pre and post World War I. Students in the course will read novels written by British and American writers who are generally identified as “modernist” writers and will study the historical, cultural, and artistic trends which comprise the concept known as “modernism.”
Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Define the concept known as modernism and understand some of the differences between British and American modernism.
2. Understand and describe the historical and cultural events which led novelists to write in a particular way, which we now call modernism.
3. Understand the movements in the arts and sciences which influenced the novelists of the time.
4. Apply her/his understanding both of the term modernism and of the historical and cultural influences in the analysis of various novels identified as modernist.
Course Requirements:
1. Read the novels in time to discuss them in class.
2. Participate in an active and engaged way in class discussions.
3. Take two objective examinations (one mid-term, and one final).
4. Write three 5-7 page essays which analyze the novels read in class. (Essay topics will be assigned by the instructor.)
5. Participate in three group activities.
Attendance Policy:
Regular attendance is essential to your success in this course. If you miss six (6) or more class hours, you will receive a ‘0' in class participation. One hundred (200) points, one fifth, of your grade is comprised of class participation, which includes regular attendance.
Late Paper Policy:
Assigned papers are due on the date assigned. If, for some very good reason which you have communicated to me before the paper’s due date, you cannot get the paper in, you will have one week to complete the assignment without penalty. I will not accept any paper that is more than one week overdue.
Make-up Examination Policy:
If you are unable to take an in-class objective examination on the assigned day, you must notify me in advance and arrange to take the examination at my convenience within one week of the date of the examination. In the case of the final examination, you must take it before the scheduled day, not after.
CSUF Academic Dishonesty Policy
Academic dishonesty includes such things as cheating, inventing false information or citations, plagiarism and helping someone else commit an act of academic dishonesty. It usually involves an attempt by a student to show possession of a level of knowledge or skill which he/she in fact does not possess.
Cheating is defined as the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for work by the use of any dishonest, deceptive, fraudulent or unauthorized means. Examples of cheating include but are not limited to the following: using notes or aids or the help of other students on tests and examinations in ways other than those expressly permitted by the instructor, plagiarism as
defined below, tampering with the grading procedures and collaborating with others on any assignment where such collaboration is expressly forbidden by an instructor. Violation of this prohibition of collaboration shall be deemed an offense for the person or persons collaborating on the work, in addition to the person submitting the work.
Plagiarism is defined as the act of taking the work of another and offering it as one's own without giving credit to that source. When sources are used in a paper, acknowledgment of the original author or source must be made through appropriate reference and, if directly quoted, quotation marks or indentations must be used.
Assessment: Learning will be assessed in the following ways:
1. Brief responses at the end of each week to the material presented and discussed and/or terms from lectures and discussion. Responses may include short quizzes, written responses to prompts, group work, or oral responses.
2. Three essays.
3. Participation, in an intense, engaged way, in three group discussions.
Grading:
Three essays: 300 points (100 points each)
Two objective exams 200 points (100 points each)
Class participation 200 points
Group discussions 150 points
Points Possible 850 points
Schedule:
Week #1: Introduction to Modernism (music, art, science, psychology, culture)
Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Week #2: Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel
The new century in the United States and World War I
Week #3: The 42nd Parallel
World War I
Week #4: Essay #1 assigned
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
World War I and England
Week #5: Essay #1 due
Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier
World War I and England
Week #6: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Colonialism and Imperialism
Week #7: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The Roaring 20’s in the United States and the American Adam
Week #8: Mid-term Objective examination
Week #9: Essay #2 assigned
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Week #10: Essay #2 due
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (movie with Vanessa Redgrave)
Week #11: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Week #12: D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Week #13: Women in Love
Week #14: William Faulkner, Sound and Fury
Week #15: Essay #3 assigned
Sound and Fury
Week #16: Final Objective examination
Essay #3 Due