English 4440: Currents in the Modern Novel
Professor: Timothy Aubry Office: VC 7-298 Phone number: 646.312.3980 Email address: [email protected] Office Hours: VC 7298, Mon/Thurs, 10AM-11AM and by appointment.
Required Texts:
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
These are available at Shakespeare & Co. (at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue)
Requirements:
One major paper: 4-6 pages long: 50% of final grade Four Response Papers (one take-home, three in class): 30% of final grade Class Participation: 20% of final grade Participation includes: -Regular class discussion -One oral presentation about a literary work’s historical context -One post in the class blog and one response to another student’s post
Grading policy:
● Late policy: For every day past the deadline that you hand in your paper you will lose half a grade. In other words, an A paper one day late becomes an A-, two days late becomes a B+, etc. I am willing to grant extensions, but you must come to me before the paper is due and give me your reason, which I reserve the right to reject.
● Attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend regularly and punctually will have a negative impact on your grade, and missing more than 4 classes without notifying me ahead of time can be grounds for failure.
Plagiarism policy:
Plagiarism is not permitted at Baruch College. To plagiarize is to steal or pass off the language or ideas of another writer as your own. Anyone caught plagiarizing will be given an automatic F for that essay and will be asked to meet with the dean.
1 You are allowed, of course, to use the language and the ideas of other writers, but you must acknowledge your sources. When you are repeating another writer’s language verbatim you must use quotation marks and cite your source with a parenthetical citation (including the last name of the author and the page number) and an entry in your works cited list. When you are paraphrasing another writer —putting that writer’s ideas into your own words—you also must include a parenthetical citation and an entry in your works cited list.
Schedule
July 15: Introduction.
July 17: E.M. Forster, A Room with a View, pp. 1-46
July 18 : E.M. Forster, A Room with a View, pp. 47-64
July 22: E.M. Forster, A Room with a View, pp. 67-138 In-class response paper
July 24: E.M. Forster, A Room with a View, pp. 138-172
July 25: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, pp. 3-25
July 29: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, pp. 26-117 One-page take-home response paper due
July 31: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, pp. 117-170
August 1: Virginia Woof, To the Lighthouse, pp. 170-209
August 5: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, pp. 1-87 In-class response paper
August 7: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, pp. 88-153
August 8: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, pp. 153-193 Major Essay due
August 12: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, pp. 3-75
August 13: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, pp. 76-90 In-class response paper
August 15: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, pp. 90-179
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