English 1102 Carla Patterson Georgia Highlands College Spring 2010 ● Floyd Campus Prerequisite: “C” or higher in ENGL 1101
MW 9:30-10:45 a.m. • Room F-152 • CRN 20329 • 3 Credit Hours
carla.patterson@highlands.edu		706/368-7625 (Office/Voicemail)
www.highlands.edu/patterson		706/295-6300 (Division Office)
Office: Floyd Campus F-162		800/332-2406 (Switchboard)
PLEASE NOTE: -Classroom computers are NOT TO BE USED DURING LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS. While in class, cell phones should be OFF AND STORED AWAY FROM DESKTOPS. -Harbrace chapters and literary works are to be read by the date they appear on the syllabus for class discussion and potential quizzes.
-Assignments are due by the time class BEGINS on each due date unless otherwise instructed. All assignments should be saved on GHC user drives and on a disk, cd or jump drive.
-All elements of the research project and lit essays are to be turned in as printed hardcopies.
-Instructor reserves the right to amend course syllabus at any point, providing notice to students.
January 11	Intro to the course
January 13	Tutorial Center introduction – Research project introduction – Regents’ Exam discussion –Timed writing tips discussion – Basic MS Word overview
January 18	Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday – Class will not meet
January 20	Syllabus test; skills evaluation timed essay written in class
January 25	Research topic due -- Evaluating sources and developing a bibliography (Harbrace chapter 38) – GALILEO and GIL overview and presentation by research librarian
January 27	MLA-style for works cited (Harbrace chapter 40 and citing GALILEO & NetLibrary handout linked here ); paraphrasing instruction (Harbrace chapter 39); organizing and developing research papers instruction; turnitin.com introduction
February 1	Tentative bibliography in MLA form due – Outline instructions discussed -- -- Distribution of fiction/drama terms sheet – “Critical Thinking & Pleasures of Lit” (pp. 1-5); “Reading Stories” (pp. 27-32); “Act of Reading Fiction” & “Story of an Hour” (starts p. 37)
February 3	Outline due -- Using source material (Harbrace chapter 38) and making note cards -- “Shiloh” (starts p. 67)
February 8	“The Yellow Wallpaper” (starts p. 379)
February 10	Notecards & intro paragraph draft due -- MLA research paper format overview (Harbrace chapter 40) -- Distribution of rough draft eval rubric -- “A&P” (starts p. 32)
February 15	Battle Royal” (starts p. 341)
February 17	Rough draft due – “Rose for Emily” (starts p. 79)
February 22	"Reading Plays” (pp. 899-901); “Tragedy” (pp. 917-918); “Elements of Drama” (pp. 921-935); “Greek Tragedy” (pp. 954-959)
February 24	Research paper revision workshop in class -- Distribution of final research packet evaluation rubric – Reminder of required source copies
March 1	Oedipus (starts p. 959)
March 3	Complete research project due at start of class -- Writing about literature discussion – Oedipus completed – Lit essay 1 assignment given
THURS., MARCH 4	OFFICIAL MIDTERM DATE -- LAST DAY TO DROP WITHOUT ACADEMIC PENALTY;
March 8	Literary analysis discussion; “Comedy” (pp. 918-919) – The Flying Doctor (linked here)
March 10	Lit essay 1 due – Lit 2 essay assignment given – The Glass Menagerie (p. 1155)
March 15 & 17	Spring Break – Class will not meet
March 22	The Glass Menagerie (cont.) -- Review fiction and drama terms for exam
March 24	Fiction & Drama exam
March 29	Poetry terms intro – “Pleasures of Poetry” (pp. 6-8); “Reading Poems” (pp. 495-496); "This was a Poet - It is That" (p. 644), "The Road Not Taken" (p. 539)
March 31	Lit essay 2 due -- Robert Frost bio (pp. 666-672) , "Mending Wall" (p. 674), “Home Burial” (p. 677), “After Apple Picking” (p. 681), "Acquainted with the Night" (p. 685), “Provide” (p. 690),
April 5	Complete Frost discussion – Walt Whitman bio (p. 894) & "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (p. 862), "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (p. 566) , - Langston Hughes bio (p. 700-705) & "Dream Deferred" (p. 705), – Lit essay 3 assignment given
April 7	Prosody: “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” (p. 644); “Rhythm & Meter” (pp. 556-559); “The Destruction of Sennacherib” (p. 562)
April 12	Lit essay 3 due – John Milton bio (p. 888), "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent" (p. 829); William Wordsworth bio (p. 894), “London, 1802” (linked here), “The World Is Too Much With Us” (p. 868), “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” (p. 519)
April 14	“Figures of Speech” (pp. 530-531) -- "Metaphors" (p. 837), "The Red Wheelbarrow" (p. 563) -- Lit essay 4/“Anthology of Poems” presentation and essay/PowerPoint assignment given
April 19	"On Being Brought from Africa to America" (linked here); "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (p. 859) – In-class work on lit essay 4 assignment
April 21	"My Last Duchess" (p. 512-514) ; “Barbie Doll” and “Rites of Passage” (linked here); “Homage to My Hips” (p. 779)
April 26	“Anthology of Poems” essay/PowerPoint due and in-class presentations started
April 28	“Anthology of Poems” class presentations completed
May 3	Review poetry terms for exam
May 10, 10 a.m.	Poetry Exam
REQUIREMENTS: In addition to writing, students must perform satisfactorily in all other areas of course work, such as reading assignments, periodic quizzes, and class participation.
All students in this course will be required to use computers and MS Word (the College’s software does not support any other word processing programs) to complete the majority of the course's essay assignments. Students should keep back-up copies of all assignments. Throughout the term, computers will be used to access online course information, execute research and correspond via email with the instructor. The URL for Georgia Highlands College’s student email system is mail.highlands.edu/student, and this account is the official email contact route for all college departments with all students. Thus, this account should be checked daily. If a student's email is not operating properly, it is the student’s responsibility to contact Information Technology for assistance. The telephone number is 706/295-6775. Unless the instructor specifically indicates that students should log-on to computers in class, the use of computers during class time is prohibited. Emails sent to the instructor during overnight hours or on weekends will not receive replies until the next weekday in most cases. LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1) Through the writing of literary essays about selected fiction, poetry, and drama and through the writing of a research paper, students will demonstrate their ability to conceive ideas about a topic, synthesize and arrange them logically, and express them clearly in written standard English with appropriate MLA documentation. 2) Through the discussion, interpretation, and analysis of literary works and through the examination and analysis of research materials/sources, students will demonstrate the ability to recognize differing perspectives and points of view. 3) Through research and research paper writing and through critical examination of literary works in analytical essays, students will demonstrate their ability to form hypotheses and anticipate consequences. This course also supports the mission of the IC@GHC. For more information, visit www.highlands.edu/ic.
GRADING: Final grades will be determined by the following percentages: research paper = 30%, four literature response essays = 10% each, one skills evaluation timed essay = 10%, midterm exam = 10%, final exam = 10%. (100-90=A, 89-80=B, 79-70=C, 69-60=D, 59-0=F) NOTE: Prerequisites for all literature courses at GHC are grades of “C” or higher in both English 1101 & 1102. Students must keep original copies of all graded and returned material for grade verification purposes. No work turned in for another course will be accepted in this class. With all work, students must adhere to the principles of academic integrity, which obviously and simply means students must do their own work, complete their own exams, compose their own papers, and give proper credit for ALL ideas AND words of others used in any assignment. If the instructor observes evidence which indicates such principles may have been violated, actions will be taken in accordance with the College's Academic Integrity Policy, located online at http://www.highlands.edu/academics/academicaffairs/academicintegritypolicy.htm . One specific violation of academic integrity, plagiarism, is becoming more problematic as a result of Internet sites offering research papers to students. The use of such papers is blatant plagiarism and a flagrant violation of academic integrity and will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the College’s policies. Additionally, plagiarism can be committed by failing to properly attribute ALL words AND ideas of others or failing to adequately paraphrase source material. Deliberate or not, plagiarism is an immensely serious academic offense. More information on avoiding plagiarism is available online at http://turnitin.com/research_site/e_what_is_plagiarism.html . Information on one of many plagiarism detection tools available can be reviewed at www.turnitin.com , and all written work in this course is subject to required submission to this website. EVIDENCE OF PLAGIARISM OR ANY TYPE OF CHEATING WILL RESULT IN A ZERO FOR THE ASSIGNMENT ON THE FIRST OFFENSE, AND A “F” IN THE COURSE FOR THE SECOND.
ATTENDANCE: All GHC Department of Humanities courses, including this course, follow this attendance policy: For classes that meet twice a week, after the fifth absence, the student will not be allowed to return to class until he/she has met with the division chair. It is the student’s responsibility to contact the division chair and arrange such a meeting. A student who misses five classes may not return to the class without appealing to the division chair. This appeal must be made within five days. Otherwise the student may not return to the class and no appeal will be allowed. If students arrive late to class, it is their responsibility to ensure the instructor noted their arrival, and this should be done immediately after class. As per the GHC Catalog: “Regular, punctual attendance at all classes is the student’s responsibility. Students are expected to account for absences to each instructor and, at the discretion of the instructor, to make up all work missed because of the absence. Final approval of any class absence remains with the individual instructor.” Students who have circumstances that prevent them from continuing to attend classes over an extended period of time sometimes request that the faculty member permit them to submit work in absentia to receive credit to complete the course. If the concurrent absences will constitute more than 15% of the class sessions for the term, then written permission from the Division Chair is required before any course assignments can be completed while missing class.  The student must be in good academic standing in the course to make the request.  All approved coursework must be completed by the end of the semester in which the course was begun. (Note: If a program has a more stringent absence policy than this, then the program policy prevails.) This message applies only to students receiving financial aid:  Federal regulations state that if a student did not attend classes and received failing grades, then the grades were not earned and financial aid needs to be reduced accordingly.  Any student receiving a 0.00 GPA will be required to prove that the 0.00 GPA was earned by attending classes or completing requirements for each class.  Students who have earned at least one passing grade for the semester will not be affected by this regulation.  If a student has properly withdrawn from all classes, the student’s financial aid should be adjusted from the time they signed the withdrawal form.
DUE DATES: Unless the instructor has been notified prior to the due date for any assignment and written verification of the extenuating circumstances precipitating late delivery is provided (i.e. copy of doctor's excuse, military orders, court documents, etc.), all late work will be penalized one letter grade for each day it is late. After the fourth class date beyond which assignments are due, late work will not be accepted and will earn a zero as a grade. Late assignments will not be accepted beyond the last date of class prior to the final exam. No make-up exam will be given for the midterm or final unless the instructor is notified of a student's absence prior to the test date and time, and written verification of the reason for the unavoidable absence is provided.
REGENTS’ EXAM: The Board of Regents (BOR) of the University System of Georgia mandates that all students enrolled in transfer degree programs pass or exempt the Regents’ Test prior to earning 45 credit hours of coursework. Students may register via the SCORE; there is no charge for taking the test. The sign-up deadline, testing times, and testing locations are listed in the Class Schedule Bulletin.  The test is offered once per semester on the Cartersville and Rome campuses. Students who are not sure if they have exempted one or both parts of the Regents’ Test should check their transcripts or see an academic advisor. Dr. Nancy Applegate’s tips for succeeding on the Regents’ essay are attached here.
TEXTS & SUPPLIES: McGraw-Hill’s Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Drama & Poetry edited by DiYanni; Hodges' Harbrace Handbook, by Horner, Webb, and Miller; pens, pencils, notebooks, folders, etc; portable electronic storage devices (cd, flash/thumb drives, etc) will be helpful but are not required
ADA STATEMENT: Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should make an appointment with the College Access Center at 706 802-5003 to coordinate reasonable accommodations.