Dr. Helen Becker

Office Phone: (English department office) 876-5220

E-Mail: hbecker@shepherd.edu

Office: Knutti G-06

Office hours for Spring 2009: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00-1:00 and by appointment

Copies of the syllabus for English 103 and for English 204 are linked below. Study guides for both courses will also be available ONLY on the webpage.

To have in this uncertain world some stay/which cannot be undermined, is/of the utmost consequence.

Mary Wollstonecraft

English 103

Syllabus, Spring, 2009

Spring, 2009, reading guide for W. F. Baxter’s “People or Penguins”

English 103, Writing for the Social Sciences: Syllabus

Stephen Nathanson Reading Guide

Reading Guide for William F. Baxter’s “People or Penguins”

Reading Guide for Paul W. Taylor’s “The Ethics of Respect for Nature”

Reading Guide for David Schmidtz’s “Are All Species Equal?”

Reading guide for Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”

Reading guide for Mary Anne Warren’s “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion”

Reading guide for Don Marquis’s “Why Abortion is Immoral”

Reading guide for Wendy McElroy’s “The Abortion Debate That Wasn’t”

English 204

English 204 Syllabus for Spring, 2009

English 204, Directions for the Research Paper, Spring 2009

English 204, Survey of American Literature: Syllabus

Study Guide One (Iroquois and Pima beginnings stories)

Reading Guide for N. Scott Momaday

Reading Guide for John Smith and William Bradford

Reading Guide for Anne Bradstreet and John Berryman

Reading Guide for Cotton Mather

Reading Guide for Thomas Paine

Reading guide for Phillis Wheatley, Soujourner Truth, and Harriet Jacobs

Reading guide for Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading guide for Henry David Thoreau

Reading guide for the novel