Syllabus for Women's Lit 2378

Women's Literature 2378
Syllabus

Text | Course Description | Responsibilities and Grades

Text
The books for this course are Gilbert,The Norton Anthology: Literature by Women, 3rd Edition.

Course Description
The San Antonio College Bulletin describes this course as a comprehensive approach to women's writing from different literary and cultural traditions, including poetry, essays, novels, and short stories.

The objectives of this course are to increase students'

knowledge and appreciation of women's literature;
analytical thinking and writing skills; and
research skills, including the use of the Internet.

Student Responsibilities and Grades
Your responsibilities, then, may be summarized as follows.

A. Readings You should read the selections in the text as presented in READINGS. After reading an assigned selection and the introduction to it in the text, you might wish to investigate the pertinent resources available on the World Wide Web. Note: This course is not about surfing the Web; it is about reading literary texts, discussing them and writing about them. There are, however, Web sites dedicated to literary study in general and the elucidation of texts in particular, and I shall be happy to hear that you have located Web sites pertinent to this course.

B. Responses to Assigned Questions (20% of grade) You are required to participate in on-line discussions.

At minimum, you should respond to the discussion questions posted weekly by the instructor.
In addition, you may submit a question or questions that occur to you as you read the assigned selections.
Remember that your responses are to be sent to EN2378IB@accd.edu

No late responses to the assigned questions will be accepted.

C. Term Paper (20% of grade) Write about a theme discussed in Moderate Fonte, and trace its development in a work in the Norton text by an author that we do not read in class. A prose work should be at least 10 pages, and a poem should be at least 30 lines in length.

Topics must be approved by the instructor.
Papers should be at least 1,000 words (approximately 5 pages) in length.
and should be submitted, along with all prewriting and sources, according to the course schedule via U.S. Mail, e-mail attachment, or FAX to the instructor.
Writing must conform to the conventions of Standard American English.
In-text (parenthetical) and Works Cited documentation for the primary source should conform to the Modern Language Association (MLA) format.
At least three secondary sources are required.
Students are required to keep a copy of each paper.
No late assignments will be accepted.
Due date for documented essay: 8/5/09. For additional assistance, see Here.

D. Examinations (30% each) A midterm exam and a final exam cover the assigned text readings. Each exam has short-essay questions based primarily on the study questions supplied by the instructor, as well as longer essays. The total amount of writing on each exam should equal at least 500 words.

For departmental information on course objectives and outcomes, see Here.