GLENDON — CURRICULUM COMMITTEE NEW COURSE PROPOSAL Date of submission: (dd/mm/yy) 30/10/2017 Department or Program: (e.g. History) English Course number: (e.g. GL/HIST 2XXX 6.00) GL/EN 3331 3.00/6.00 Course title: (The official name of the course as it will appear in the Into the Fray: British Literature from the Romantic Undergraduate Calendar & on the Repository) Period Short course title: (Appears on any document where space is limited - e.g. transcripts and lecture schedules — max 40 characters) British Romantic Literature Language of instruction: EN Academic term: (e.g. FALL 2012) Fall 2018 Calendar description (40 words): The course description should be carefully written to convey what the course is about. For editorial consistency, and in consideration of the various uses of the Calendars, verbs should be in the present tense (i.e., "This course analyzes the nature and extent of...," rather than "This course will analyze...") This course focuses on British literary works from the Romantic Period (1770-1832), a period of literal and literary revolutions with writers actively engaging with real world issues. Topics under consideration include the role of the individual in society, the effects of technology, poverty, race relations, class, gender expectations, and the question of what “counts” as literature. Cross-listings: GL/ AP/ES/FA/HH/SC/ Prerequisites: GL/ AP/ES/FA/HH/SC/ Corequisites: GL/ Integrated course: GS/ GL/EN 3322 3.00/6.00; GL/EN 3330 Course Credit Exclusions: AP/EN 3560 6.00 6.00; Is this course required for the major/minor in the program, and/or in other programs? YES X NO The course fits into the following specific category regarding program requirements (e.g. for major/minor): X YES NO Course specific category: Literature 1660-1900 Brief course outline: Indicate how the course design supports students in achieving the learning objectives; the evaluation scheme; and, if course is integrated, indicate additional requirements for graduate students. This course focuses on British literary works from the Romantic Period (1770-1832). It is a period of literal and literary revolutions with writers actively engaging with real world issues which continue to resonate in our time—the role of the individual in society, the effects of technology, poverty, race relations, class, gender expectations, and the question of what “counts” as literature. Recognizing the prominence of poetry in the Romantic Period, works by both canonical and lesser-known poets such as Joanna Baillie, William Blake, George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, and Dorothy and William Wordsworth will be studied. Attention will also be given to novelists including Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, Gregory Lewis, Walter Scott, and Ann Radcliffe; essayists like Edmund Burke, William Hazlitt, Richard Price, and Mary Wollstonecraft; and journalists like William Cobbett and Leigh Hunt. Evaluation includes classroom participation, an annotated bibliography, essay assignments, seminar presentations, and a final exam. Is this a General Education course? (If yes, please attach rationale): S YE X NO Department/Program approval for the course: Department/Program Name Signature Date English Department Igor Djordjevic Signature received October 2, 2017 Department/Program approval for Cross-listings/Course Credit Exclusions: Faculty & Department/Program Name Signature Date LA&PS English Department Elizabeth Pentland (UPD) Signature received October 23, 2017 Attached with submission: X Department Overview (Compulsory) Please see attached document (rational for Course-creation and Addition to the Program, expanded description with the evaluation for the 3.0/6.0 credits version of the course, and the bibliography). X Library Statement (Compulsory) All the works listed in the provided bibliographies are currently available through the Libraries at York. As the Libraries actively collect scholarly monographs published within the subject areas of 18th century English literature, 19th century English literature, romanticism, love in literature, women and literature, literary history, English poetry, and other related areas, a strong variety of research materials will be available to students through our collections. The Libraries also offer access to a number of subject and multidisciplinary databases such as MLA International Bibliography, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Literature Criticism Online, and Literature Online for the retrieval of journal literature in these areas. Frost Library will secure a copy of the Greenblatt (2018) anthology set listed in the supplied bibliographies when it becomes available for purchase in June 2018. The Libraries at York are in a strong position to support these new courses. GL/EN 3331 3.0/6.0: Into the Fray: British Literature from the Romantic Period Departmental overview: This course, along with its companion (GL/EN 3332 3.00/6.00 Down the Rabbit Hole: British Literature from the Victorian Period), is intended to revise and replace the Department’s “old” offerings in nineteenth-century British literature (GL/EN3322 and GL/EN3330). The division of the century into two coherent wholes, the “Romantic” and the “Victorian,” enables the program to cover two distinct and rich literary periods in greater depth and breadth, and introduces the students to the history of ideas in an age of revolution and accelerated social change through a heightened emphasis on the socio-cultural and political contexts informing the production and reception of the works. The course will typically be offered in a full-year format, but the emphasis on a single subfield of the nineteenth century does allow for a coherent delivery of the material (with an adjustment for depth and breadth of knowledge) even in the one-term format. The possibility of teaching the course as a 3.00 is a vital component of the redesigned English program in which a category can be satisfied by 3 credits, and it offers greater flexibility in departmental staffing in any year. Expanded Course Description This course focuses on British literary works from the Romantic Period (1770-1832). It is a period of literal and literary revolutions with writers actively engaging with real world issues which continue to resonate in our time—the role of the individual in society, the effects of technology, poverty, race relations, class, gender expectations, and the question of what “counts” as literature. Recognizing the prominence of poetry in the Romantic Period, works by both canonical and lesser-known poets such as Joanna Baillie, William Blake, George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, and Dorothy and William Wordsworth will be studied. Attention will also be given to novelists including Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, Gregory Lewis, Walter Scott, and Ann Radcliffe; essayists like Edmund Burke, William Hazlitt, Richard Price, and Mary Wollstonecraft; and journalists such as William Cobbett and Leigh Hunt. Evaluation and assessment includes classroom participation, annotated bibliography and essay assignments, seminar presentations, and a final examination. Evaluation 3.0 Seminar presentation 15%; Annotated bibliography 15%; Essay 30%; Participation 15%; Final exam 25% Evaluation 6.0 Fall seminar presentation 10%; Winter seminar presentation 10%; Fall annotated bibliography 10% Fall Essay 20%; Winter Essay 20%; Participation 10%; Final exam 20% Required Texts The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 10th ed. Vol. D and a selection of non-fiction prose and novels from, but not limited to, the following list: Austen, Jane. Emma or Pride and Prejudice or Northanger Abbey or Mansfield Park. Burke, Edmund, On Empire, Liberty and Reform or Reflections on the Revolution in France. Cobbett, William, Political Register or Rural Rides. Hazlitt, William, The Spirit of the Age or Lectures on the English Poets. Hunt, Leigh, The Examiner or The Reflector. Lewis, Matthew Gregory, The Monk. Price, Richard, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country. Radcliffe, Ann, The Mysteries of Udolpho or The Romance of the Forest. Scott, Walter, Ivanhoe or Waverley or Rob Boy. Wollstonecraft, Mary, Mary, A Fiction and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. GLENDON — CURRICULUM COMMITTEE NEW COURSE PROPOSAL Date of submission: (dd/mm/yy) 30/10/2017 Department or Program: (e.g. History) English Course number: (e.g. GL/HIST 2XXX 6.00) GL/EN 3332 3.00/6.00 Course title: (The official name of the course as it will appear in the Down the Rabbit Hole: British Literature from the Victorian Undergraduate Calendar & on the Repository) Period Short course title: (Appears on any document where space is limited - e.g. British Victorian Literature transcripts and lecture schedules — max 40 characters) Language of instruction: EN Academic term: (e.g. FALL 2012) Fall 2018 Calendar description (40 words): The course description should be carefully written to convey what the course is about. For editorial consistency, and in consideration of the various uses of the Calendars, verbs should be in the present tense (i.e., "This course analyzes the nature and extent of...," rather than "This course will analyze...") This course focuses on British literary works from the Victorian Period (1832-1901); a period of vast and fast-paced social, cultural, and technological change. Topics under consideration include the effects of science and technology, changing social and