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ENG 497.002 Professor Marcus Embry http://asweb.unco.edu/latina Office Hours: Course Description Detailed investigation of a specific author, period, text, or topic in literary studies, composition and rhetoric, or linguistics. Substantial research and at least one oral presentation required. Course Objectives This course is designed to create an intellectual and pedagogical atmosphere in which English majors will examine and interrogate a common theme or set of issues. Because this course is designed for English majors who have fulfilled their departmental requirements, each major will develop a reading and research methodology individually suited to his or her interests and particular experience of fulfilling his or her English major and university course requirements. In other words, this course is designed to present a theme or issues around and through which all students will participate idiosyncratically so that, ideally, the students will perceive both the diversity and common bonds of the discipline of English. The common theme and set of issues around which we will develop this course is the idea of hybrid frontiers. In other words, even though we are in the beginning of the twenty-first century, we find that the discourse of frontiers is still present in an altered form. We will explore the permanence of frontier discourse from literary, pedagogical, and aesthetic perspectives. Required Texts (Available at Barnes and Noble in the University Center, The Book Stop, 931 16th Street, and various internet providers such as Amazon.com and half.com): |Backus, Harriet Fish. Tomboy Bride: A Woman’s Personal Account of Life in the Mining Camps of the West. Pruett, Publishing; ISBN: 0871085127 Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. Bantam Classic and Loveswept; ISBN: 0553213296 Custer, Elizabeth Bacon. Boots and Saddles. Digital Scanning Inc; ISBN: 1582181268 Jaramillo, Cleofas. Romance of a Little Village Girl. U New Mexico Press, ISBN: 0826322867 McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679728759 Van Gieson, Judith. North of the Border: A Neil Hamel Mystery. UNM Press; ISBN: 0826328865 Silko, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead. Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140173196 On Reserve in Michener Library: Weekly Assignments: Week 1: Week 2: Week 3: Week 4: Week 5: Week 6: Week 7: Week 8: 3/7 Backus Week 9: 3/18 – 3/22 Spring Break Week 10: Week 11: Week 12: Week 13: Week 14: Week 15: Final Exam: 8:00-10:30 Tuesday, May 7. You must be present at the final exam. Short of your death or admittance to hospital, I will accept no excuses. Failure to attend the exam during the scheduled period will result in a grade of zero. Plan your plane flights, family activities, psychosomatic illnesses, traumas, disasters, lost pets, insanity (zodiacal, lunar, and criminal), and spiritual torpor and/or existential paralysis appropriately. Course Requirements Grading Percentages: Method of Evaluation Letter grades, A-F Annotated Bibliography: This assignment is not as hard as it sounds. Using MLA format, list at least ten references related to each of the first two sections as the theme intersects your particular field and/or area of interest (creative writing, pedagogy, theory, American lit., English lit., gender issues, sexuality issues, etc.). Each bibliographical entry is followed by a three or four sentence synopsis of the major points and/or argument of the article of book. The total bibliography will contain at least twenty references. Papers: Paper topics will be assigned in class. Paper will be eight to ten pages in length, typed, double-spaced, in MLA format. Cite relevant texts using MLA format. Important Note: I will deduct one point for each circled mistake, and these points will be deducted from the score your paper merits for content. Submit papers in MLA format. If you do not use MLA format, then I will deduct one letter grade from your overall score. Workshop/Research Project: Rather than a standard research paper, for this class I require that you turn participate in one of three workshops. In the first weeks of class, I will assign students to one of six workshops, two in pedagogy, two in creativity, and two in elementary. We will further develop the goals of the workshop as we proceed through the semester. Late Assignment Policy: I will deduct ten percent of the assignment’s overall grade for every day that the assignment is late. If you miss an assignment, by all means turn in something within five days – twenty or thirty percent is certainly better than zero. Plagiarism: Plagiarism occurs when an individual represents someone else’s work as his or her own. If you download a paper off of an internet cite and turn it in as your own, that is plagiarism. If you copy sentences or passages written by someone else and do not attribute the source, that is plagiarism. If I suspect plagiarism, I will investigate by whatever means available, including various internet sites designed to specifically find passages copied from websites. Be advised that these internet search engines are extremely efficient. Plagiarized assignments will receive a grade of zero and will be reported to the proper authorities. Do not plagiarize. Disability Access Statement Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact the Disability Access Center (970) 351-2289 as soon as possible to better ensure that accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion. Presence and Participation: To receive the most benefit from this course, you should attend each scheduled class meeting. Since almost all of you are legal adults and most of you are going into debt to attend college, I do not enforce an attendance policy. If you skip class, you are wasting your own time and money. Be advised that I do design tests and writing assignments in relation to class discussion. Over the course of my years here, the students who attend class earn higher grades. As a general rule, I use the following scale to grade your attendance and participation: 100% – consistent contribution to class discussion As a General Education course, this course intends to help you: understand aesthetic and intellectual achievements in art, music, literature, history, or philosophy; understand the intellectual, cultural, and historical framework of these disciplines; know various contributions these disciplines make to the enhancement of our lives; and demonstrate abilities in analytic thought, the use of language, aesthetic appreciation, or research techniques. Que le vaya bien.
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