Hill College

112 Lamar Drive

Hillsboro, TX  76645

 

COURSE SYLLABUS

 

 

Course Prefix and Number                                                        Course Title

 

ENGL. 2323   Sections: 05SB, 06SB, and 07SB

Semester:   Spring 2022                                                     English Literature II

 

Instructor: Dr. Marianna Hendricks

 

Contact: marianna.hendricks@bisdmail.net or mhendricks@hillcollege.edu

 

ACGM Description:

 

Further study of English literature from the Romantic period to the present; selected readings from major authors; emphasis on emerging ideas and surviving influences.

 

Catalog Description:

 

 

 

Lecture Hours  3     Lab Hours   0   Semester Credit Hours  3 

 

Pre-Requisite:  ENGL 1301 (Composition I)

 

Introduction and Purpose:

 

This course will provide the opportunity for the student to examine the great works of English literature from the Romantic period through the Modern Age. English Literature II will satisfy degree requirements for Hill College and for transfer credit to senior institutions

 

Textbook:   Greenblatt, Stephen.  The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume II. Tenth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

 

Supplies:    Paper, pens, pencils, Scantron answer sheets as required, examination blue books as required, collegiate dictionary, thesaurus.

 

Objectives / Student Learning Outcomes:

 

At the end of the course, the student should be able to

 

1. Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.

2.  Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.

3.  Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions.

4.  Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.

5.  Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various critical approaches to literature.

 

Description of Institutional Core Objectives (ICO’s)

 

Given the rapid evolution of necessary knowledge and skills and the need to take into account global, national, state, and local cultures, the core curriculum must ensure that students will develop the essential knowledge and skills they need to be successful in college, in a career, in their communities, and in life. Therefore, with the assistance of the Undergraduate Education Advisory Committee, the Coordinating Board approved a 42-semester credit hour core curriculum for all undergraduate students in Texas, including a statement of purpose, six core objectives, and common component areas.

 

Statement of Purpose

 

Through the Texas Core Curriculum, students will gain a foundation of knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world, develop principles of personal and social responsibility for living in a diverse world, and advance intellectual and practical skills that are essential for all learning.  Hill College faculty periodically evaluates the objectives included in the Foundational Component Area of Language, Philosophy, and Culture.

 

 

 

 

The students' success in completing these objectives will be measured using a set of examinations and assignments described, in detail under the section of this syllabus headed “Method of Evaluation.”

 

An Annual Assessment Plan will be implemented each year to review the course.

 

Methods of Instruction:

 

This course will be taught face-to-face and by various distance learning delivery methods.

 

Audio-visual materials and computer based technology will be used when appropriate.

 

Methods of Evaluation:

 

The students' success in completing the core objectives within the Foundational Component Area of Language, Philosophy, and Culture will be measured using rubric, exam, or embedded assessment activity.

 

Grading:

 

Grades in this course will be based on the following evaluative criteria:

 

1.  Tests

     Tests must be given for each major period studied.

     At least four major tests must be given during the semester.

 

2.  Analytical papers based on specific literary works and/or oral presentations

     At least two major papers and/or oral presentations should be assigned during the course of the semester.

 

1. 1. Quizzes/short in-class written responses

     The number of quizzes/written responses should be left to the instructor’s discretion.

 

     ***Elements 1-3 will be weighted at 75% of the overall grade, but can be distributed at the instructor’s discretion.

 

4.  Comprehensive final examination

 

     ***The final exam will be weighted at 25% of the overall grade.

 

Letter grades for the course will be based on the following percentages:

 

90-100%       A

80-89%         B

70-79%         C

60-69%         D

Below 60%   F

 

Course Outline:

 

Class policies:

 

Regular attendance at all class meetings is expected. Disruptions in class will not be tolerated.

 

Topic Outline:

 

1. Overview to the first thirteen hundred years of English literature

 

2. The Romantic Period
   1. Historical background
   2. Early Romantics (selected by instructor)
   3. Romantics (selected from below)
      1. William Wordsworth
      2. Samuel T. Coleridge
      3. Sir Walter Scott
      4. Charles Lamb
      5. George Gordon, Lord Byron
      6. Percy Bysshe Shelley
      7. John Keats

 

3. The Victorian Period
   4. Historical background
   5. Victorian prose (selections)
      1. Thomas Carlyle
      2. Thomas B. Macaulay
      3. John Stuart Mill
      4. John Ruskin
      5. Thomas Henry Huxley

C.   Victorian poetry (selections)

4. 1. 1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
      2. Robert Browning
      3. Matthew Arnold
      4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
      5. William Morris
      6. Gerard Manley Hopkins
      7. Edward Fitzgerald
      8. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
      9. Christina Rossetti
      10. Francis Thompson
      11. William E. Henley
      12. Rudyard Kipling
      13. Arthur Hugh Clough
      14. Algernon Charles Swinburne
      15. George Meredith
      16. Emily Bronte

500. Victorian novels, as required

5. Victorian drama, as required

 

5. The Modern Period (selected emphasis by instructor)
   6. Historical background
   7. Modern drama: Samuel Beckett, George B. Shaw
   8. Modern poetry (selected from below)
      8. William Butler Yeats
      9. Thomas Hardy
      10. T. S. Eliot
      11. Edward Thomas
      12. Wilfred Owen
      13. Siegfried Sassoon
      14. Rupert Brooke
      15. A. E. Housman
      16. W. H. Auden
      17. Louis MacNeice
      18. Dylan Thomas
      19. Philip Larkin
      20. Thom Gunn
      21. Ted Hughes
      22. Stevie Smith

500. Modern short prose (selections)

6. 1. 1. Joseph Conrad
      2. Katherine Mansfield
      3. Virginia Woolf
      4. James Joyce
      5. D. H. Lawrence
      6. George Orwell
      7. Doris Lessing

 

5. Modern novels (as required by instructor)

1. Kingsley Amis
2. Evelyn Waugh
3. T. H. White
4. Alan Paton
5. George Orwell
6. Somerset Maugham
7. D. H. Lawrence
8. Aldous Huxley
9. Joyce Cary
10. Virginia Woolf

 

 

 

 

Disabilities/ADA

 

Students with qualified and documented permanent or temporary disabilities may request accommodations which will enable them to participate in and benefit from educational programs and activities. Students should contact the Academic Advising and Success Center for more details at: 254.659.7650 for Hillsboro, 817.760.5650 for Cleburne, or 817.295.7392 for Burleson.

 

Reports of discrimination based on disability may be directed to the ADA/Section 504 and Title IX Coordinator:

Name: Ms. Lizza Trenkle

Position: Vice President of Student Services

Address: 112 Lamar Drive, Hillsboro, TX 76645

Telephone: (254) 659-7601

 

 

 

 

EEO Statement

 

Hill College is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in education and employment.  The college does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or veteran status in the administration of its educational programs, activities, or employment policies.