! Final Exam: The final exam consists of three essay-type questions. More information, tips, and practice prompts are at detailed schedule.

! Quizzes and Tests: Marks for your quizzes and tests will be linked to from here identified by student ID for your reference before the final exam.

! Weeklies: Weekly exercises to help you read material for each week are downloadable as pdf files from links in the appropriate week on our Detailed Schedule page. Hard copies can be ordered from the MCS photocopy shop.

! Course Material: If you still need reading for our course, the following are available from khun Orn: call mobile: 09 261 0992, or visit her shop at the Faculty of Science Library, 2^nd floor, Tab Building; hours: M–F 8–7, Sa 8–4.

• Course packet
• Animal Farm
• The Pillowman
  

Class Time: M 9:30–11:00, W 8:00–9:30

Required Texts

• Course packet (available from khun Orn 09 2621 0992)
  
• Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Signet, 1946.
  
• A good dictionary of literary terms such as
• Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 3^rd ed. Oxford UP, 2008.
  
• Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 5^th ed. Penguin, 2014.
  
• Murfin, Ross, and Supryia M. Ray. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. 3^rd ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.
  
• Abrams, M. H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 11^th ed. Cengage Learning, 2014.
  

Detailed Schedule 

Syllabus (pdf)

Requirements and Expectations

• Reading Responses: Aside from occasional writing of other kinds, reading responses are useful exercises that attempt to explain, discuss or comment on a question that you pose about the reading. No more than one page double-spaced is expected per response but it should be well thought out. See samples.

• Attendance and Participation: Discussion of the texts will be a big part of this class and students are encouraged to express their opinions, share observations and ask questions. Come prepared to discuss the reading material.

• There will be a midterm, a final exam, and a final paper.

• Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. 2^nd ed. London: Routledge, 2004. Print. (CL  820.9 K63I)

• Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Fiction. 3^rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. Print. (library has 2^nd ed.)

• Undergraduate Guide for Studying Literature (How well do you understand what you have read?, keeping a reading journal, critical terms for discussing literature, guidelines for writing essays, what the grade on your essay means, what to do with your marked essay, marking symbols and abbreviations; also has downloadable pdf file)

• Literary Resources on the Net

• What Is Plagiarism? (friendly explanation of plagiarism with examples from Georgetown University; make sure you read the entire article; you  will be severely penalized for plagiarism in this course)

• The UVic Writer's Guide (well-organized, easy to follow guide with examples)

• The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab, includes the writing process, grammar and mechanics, literary analysis and criticism, writing about poetry)

• How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find

• Basic Steps in Writing a Literature Paper

• Citation Styles Handbook: MLA

• MLA Style FAQ

• Paper Guidelines 1 and 2

• Literary Criticism: Principles

• Model Criticism (some essays by F. R. Leavis; a couple of obsolete links)

• English Help

• Key to Correction Marks

• Hay Festival

• Poetry World

• Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry (video clips; Feb. 4, 2009; You might enjoy the play with sound, for example, in "Velimir Khlebnikov's Word Transformations")

• Life and Poetry

• East of the Web

• Drama Glossary (see also Drama Glossary, Terms for Discussing Drama, Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms, Glossary of Basic Literary Terms)

• The Web Concordances and Workbooks

• Poets on Poets (audio clips of poets reading the work of other poets, sometimes with commentary)

• Lannan Audio Archives