Dr. Yoder
English 3330.02     Approaches to Literature     Fall 2007

Except for Oct. 1, class will meet everyday. The days in the schedule below for which nothing is listed simply mean that we shall be continuing the work from the previous class session(s).

Week 1 (Aug. 20-24)
M     Intro / Syllabus
W     Everything You Want to Know about Being an English Major
F      The English Major at UALR

Week 2 (Aug. 27-31)
M     Michel Foucault, "What Is an Author?"
W     Richard Lanham, "At and Through: The Opaque Style and Its Uses"
F     

Week 3 (Sept. 3-7)
M     Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
W     William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
F      Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Week 4 (Sept. 10-14)
M     Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"
W     Toni Cade Bambara, "Gorilla, My Love"
F      Bharati Mukherjee, "The Management of Grief"

Week 5 (Sept. 17-21)
M     Poetry: Scavenger Hunt (See assignment here.)
W     ----> Paper 1 Due (Writing ssignments are here.)
F     

Week 6 (Sept. 24-28)
M     Poetry: Scavenger Hunt continued (See assignment here.)
W     
F     

Week 7 (Oct. 1-5)
M     No Class
W     William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
         For lots more on the Songs see the Blake Archive and follow the links.
F     

Week 8 (Oct. 8-12)
M     William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (continued)
W     
F     ----> Paper 2 Due (Writing assignments are here).

Week 9 (Oct. 15-19)
M     Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
W     
F     

Week 10 (Oct. 22-26)
M     Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (continued)
W     
F     

Week 11 (Oct. 29-Nov. 2)
M     Research: Finding Stuff You Want
W     How to Choose and Focus a Topic: Intro to Lit pp. 1130-1186
F      Documentation Format: Get It Right

Week 12 (Nov. 5-9)
M     Critical Schools: Intro to Lit pp. 1187-1216 (Other readings TBA)
W     
F     ---->Bibliographic Essay Due (Writing assignments are here)

Week 13 (Nov. 12-16)
M     Literary History
W     Essay Writing: Thesis, Structure, Evidence
F      Critiquing Sample Essays

Week 14 (Nov. 19-23)
M     Outlines, or Not
W     
F     THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Week 15 (Nov. 26-30)
M     ---->Rough Draft Due (Writing assignments are here.)
W     Revision Strategies
F      More Revision Strategies

Week 16 (Dec. 3-5)
M     Finishing Touches
W     LAST DAY OF CLASS

--->Friday Dec. 7 FINAL PAPERS DUE BY 12 NOON (Writing assignments are here.)

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