Syllabus Subject to Minor Revision

Syllabus
Subject to Minor Revision. See the Lecture Modules for More Details on Readings
English 204-02 * Summer II 2003

Instructor: Prof. Karen D. Austin
Email: kaustin@shepherd.edu Phone: (304) 876-5293
Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV 25443

For Summer sections: Cover one lecture module per day--Monday through Thursday.
For Fall/Spring sections: Cover one lecture module per week.

Day/Week 1: Course Introduction
Lecture Module on Class Policies.

Day/Week 2: Native American World Views
Lecture Module on Iroquois and Pima Creation Myths.

Day/Week 3: European Explorers' World Views
Lecture Module on Columbus's letters and Smith's history of Jamestown.

Day/Week 4: Puritans' World Views
Lecture Module on Bradstreet and Taylor poetry and Rowlandson's captivity narrative.

Day/Week 5: Enlightenment World Views
Lecture Module on Franklin, Paine and Jefferson

Day/Week 6: Personal Struggles for Independence
Lecture Module on Equiano, Hayden, Apess, and Douglass

Day/Week 7: Literary Tools of the American Short Story
Lecture Module on Irving, Cooper, Poe and Hawthorne

Day/Week 8: Transcendentalism World Views
Lecture Module on Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman

Day/Week 9: Poetic World View: Whitman and Dickinson
Lecture Module on Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Dickinson poetry

Day/Week 10: Realism and Naturalism World Views
Lecture Module on Clemens (Twain), James and Crane

Day/Week 11: Early American Feminism
Lecture Module on Glaspell and Perkins

Day/Week 12: Modernism's World View through Poetry
Lecture Module on Frost, Stevens, and cummings

Day/Week 13: Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
Lecture Module on Love Medicine, Chapters 1 through 6

Day/Week 14: Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
Lecture Module on Love Medicine, Chapters 7 through 12 and "Fleur"

Day/Week 15: Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
Lecture Module on Love Medicine, Chapters 14 through 18

Day/Week 16: Modern Drama
Lecture Module on Williams' Streetcar Named Desire.

Day/Week 17: Late 20th Century Multiculturism--Short Stories
Lecture Module on Anzaldua, Walker, Morrison & Kingston

Day/Week 18: Late 20th Century Multiculturism--Poetry
Lecture Module on Dove, Rios, Song and Lee

Points	Assignment
10%	Daily/Weekly Bulletin Board Posts. These will be graded holistically by both quantity and quality. You should post at least two message per lecture module: one on the readings directly and one as a specific response to a classmate's post. You have to post these BEFORE taking the unit quizzes or they will not count. Earn points by not only summarizing the readings, but by analyzing through use of details as well as fleshing out concepts. Every once and a while, the teacher will reply to a post with a comment such as "exemplary post" or "good job," so you can see which posts are earning points for quality.
90%	Highest 15 Unit Quizzes out of 18 Unit Quizzes Each Quiz will have a series of objective questions (half of the points) and one essay question (half of the points). The three lowest quizzes will be dropped. See the Lecture Module on Policies for more information on the quizzes.