Dr. Yoder
English 3330.02     Approaches to Literature
Fall 2007     MWF 11:00-11:50am     Stabler Hall 401

Office: Stabler Hall 501V     Office Hrs.: M 3-4pm; T 1-2pm; W 8:30-9:30am; by appt.
Office Phone: 569-8321       email: rpyoder@ualr.edu
Homepage: http://www.ualr.edu./rpyoder/

Texts:

• Achebe, Chinua. Things Falll Apart. Expanded (African Writers Series). 1996.
• Blake, William. The Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. 1977.
• Booth, Allison, et al., eds. Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Edition). New York: W. W. Norton. 2006.
• Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. MLA. 2003.

Goals and Objectives:

• Students will become acquainted with the English major at UALR.


• Students will begin to gain a sense of themselves as "English majors."


• Students will be introduced to more sophisticated ways of reading, discussing and writing about literature.


• Students will learn to apply the principles of interpretation and literary criticism in shorter and longer writing assignments.


• Students will learn elements of form, including story structure, poetic prosody, and various poetic or rhetoric figures.


• Students will improve their interpretive skills.


• Students will write short interpretive papers.


• Students will improve their research skills.


• Students will write a longer, researched criticial paper.

Departmental / Course Assessment:

This course includes an ongoing assessment of my teaching in the form of weekly journals. These journals consist of a 250 word (minimum requirement) written response to the class readings or discussion. These journals allow me to assess how well students are understanding what I think I am teaching them, and I make adjustments to my class presentations and assignments accordingly. Taken as a whole, the journals count for 15% of the studentıs final grade, thus insuring that the students take this assessment seriously.

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