Dr. Yoder
English 7360.01 4 Literary Icons: Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes & Tarzan
Fall 2007 MW 1:40-2:55pm Stabler Hall 401
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Texts:
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes (Penguin, 1990)
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Return of Tarzan (Ballantine, 1913; 1990)
- Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories(Bantam, 1986)
- Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Edited by Johanna M. Smith. (Bedford / St. Martin's Press, 1992)
- Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Edited by Maurice Hindle. (Penquin, 2003)
Goals and Objectives:
Departmental / Course Assessment:
- Students will read selected books and short stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Students will develop their own critical skills and ideas about these texts through class discussion, and formal and informal writing.
- Students will consider the relationship between academic study, the literary canon and popular culture.
- Students will use traditional and electronic resources to research their own areas of interest in relation to the course materials and report on that research.
- Students will improve their interpretive skills, and their sense of the relationship between literature and culture.
- Students will write several papers combining research and their own critical insights.
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.Assignment Schedule
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