On-line Course Syllabus
ENC 1102.1719
Fall 1999

Instructor: Nick Melczarek
Office: 4303-D Turlington
Office hours: MW 6th Period & by appt.
Department 'phone: 392-0777
Office 'phone: 392-6650 ext.295
e-mail: nickym@melczarek.net
(remember -- no attachments)
MWF Per 2 (8:30 - 9:20 a.m.)
Rolfs 114






THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO AND WILL CHANGE ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF THE COURSE.


(Tentative) Course Schedule

Week 1 (23-27 Aug) Course introduction; diagnostic essay & self-evaluation; Eco's "walking" approach to reading (handout); Burnham/Cortazar (handout)

Week 2 (30 Aug - 3 Sept) grammar diagnostic; reading/writing strategies; Eagleton, Fish, Foucault, Barthes (in packet); prelim. discuss. of critical approaches; explication de texte

Week 3 (6-10 Sept) off Monday 6 for Labor Day; continue discuss of critical approaches; Reader Response Critique by Cowles (packet); writing & editing; critical terms/concepts for short stories & poems (reserve, handout, packet); prelim Paper 1

Week 4 (13-17 Sept) writing & editing cont'; short stories & poems cont'; draft Paper 1

Week 5 (20-24 Sept) short stories & poems cont'; CONFERENCES; draft/edit Paper 1

Week 6 (27 Sept - 1 Oct) Marxist Critique by Austin (packet); Paper 1 final draft Due (Friday)

Week 7 (4-8 Oct) Marxist critique cont'; critical terms/concepts for drama; Antigone by Sophocles; writing & editing; prelim. Paper 2

Week 8 (11-15 Oct) Antigone ; draft/edit Paper 2

Week 9 (18-22 Oct) Antigone ; draft/edit Paper 2; CONFERENCES

Week 10 (25-29 Oct) Feminist Critique by Houston (packet); Paper 2 final draft due (Friday)

Week 11 (1-5 Nov) off Friday 5 for Homecoming; "invisible week" -- you'll see why

Week 12 (8-12 Nov) off Thursday 11 for Veterans' Day; ; review Feminist critique; critical terms/concepts for "novels"; The Woman Warrior by Kingston; writing & editing; prelim Paper 3

Week 13 (15-19 Nov) The Woman Warrior cont'; draft/edit Paper 3

Week 14 (22-26 Nov) off Thurs & Fri 25-26 for Thanksgiving; The Woman Warrior cont'; draft/edit Paper 3

Week 15 (29 Nov-3 Dec) The Woman Warrior cont'; draft/edit Paper 3; CONFERENCES (?)

Week 16 (6-8 Dec) Final Class; Paper 3 final draft due (Friday)
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