Dr. Yoder
English 3330.02 Approaches to Literature
Spring 2009 W 6:00-8:40pm Ross Hall 104
Office: Stabler Hall 501V Office Hrs.: TTh 9:00-10:00am; W 4:00-5:00pm also; by appt. Office Phone: 569-8321 email: rpyoder@ualr.edu
webpage: http://www.ualr.edu/rpyoder
Texts:
- Blake, William. The Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Introduction and Commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. 1977.
- Booth, Allison, et al., eds. Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter 9th Edition). New York: W. W. Norton. 2006.
- Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. MLA. 2003.
- A novel still to be determined
Goals and Objectives:
Departmental / Course Assessment:
- 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 critical paper.
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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