English 201: Dr. Philip Keith
2-3:15, Tues & Thursday, CH 101
Office: Riverview 207, Office hours: 10-11 T, R, F and by appointment
Telephone: 255-3189; e-mail: pmkeith@stcloudstate.edu
Required Texts:
Barnet, Sylvan, et al. An Introduction to Literature : Fiction, Poetry, Drama, (Longman's Pub Co, 12 th ed)
Faulkner, William. Go Down Moses (Vintage Books, 1991)
Course Description: Introduces non-English majors to in-depth study of rich literary traditions of Great Britain, the United States, and/or other nations or cultures; including at least two genres and historical periods. Does not count toward the English major or minor. 3 Cr. F, S.
Course Objectives:
1. To familiarize you with traditional criteria for literary greatness.
2. To familiarize you with some major works of literary culture in English.
3. To enhance your reading skills: reading effectiveness and critical reading.
4. To enhance your critical thinking skills.
5. To enlarge your appreciation of values.
6. To enlarge your appreciation of cultural difference interrelation.
Tentative Reading assignments:
2 |
Faulkner: Was Barnet: Poe's Cask of Amontillado Browning's My Last Duchess |
3 |
Welty's The Worn Path Checkov's Misery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find Oates, Where are you Going Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych? |
4 |
Faulkner: Fire & Hearth 1 Barnet: Achebe's Civil Peace Walker, Every Day Use |
5 |
Faulkner: F&H 2 Barnet: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex |
6 |
Faulkner: F&H 3 Barnet: Sophocles' Antigone Test 1 |
7 |
Faulkner F:Pantaloon in Black Barnet: Shakespeare's Hamlet I |
8 |
Barnet: Shakespeare's Hamlet II & III Updike's A&P |
9 |
Faulkner: The Old People Barnet: Frost poems |
10 |
Faulkner: The Bear 1 Barnet: Ibsen's The Doll's House Test 2 |
11 |
Faulkner: The Bear 2 |
12 |
Faulkner: The Bear 3 Barnet: Bishop, The Fish |
13 |
Faulkner: The Bear 4 Barnet: Keats's Ode to a Grecian Urn |
14 |
Faulkner: The Bear 5 Barnet: Langston Huges poems |
15 |
Faulkner: Delta Autumn & Go Down Moses Barnet: Emily Dickinson poems |
Graded Activities:
15 Preclass quizzes: 2 pts. each
15 Postclass quizzes: 3 pts. each
2 Tests: 25 points each
Final Exam: 50 points
