20355
~ The
Whole World is America; America Is the World~
Time: 9:30-10:45 MW –
Spring 2014
Location: Stubbs
143 – South Georgia College – Douglas, GA
Instructor: Dr. Codrina
Cozma
E-mail: codrina.cozma@sgsc.edu
(Do NOT use any other email for
correspondence with the teacher! Use the
D2L email only for specific assignments as instructed!)
Phone: 229-251-9927 (cell)
Office: Stubbs 116
Office Hours: on campus:
MW –10:45 AM - 11:00 AM; 12:15-1:00 PM;
2:15-2:30 PM; 3:45-6:00 PM in Stubbs 116 by
appointment
virtually: 24/7 by
phone/e-mail/Facebook (Codrina Cozma)
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SYLLABUS
DESCRIPTION
"There's the country of America,
which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more
than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.”
Bono, Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
Irish lead singer of U2 (1960 - )
ENG
2132, American Literature II, is a survey of American literary texts since 1865
to the present, which will offer insights into the involvement or detachment of
literature from the ideological trends related to various social,
technological, and political developments; this course will also substantially
contribute to constructing for the students a well-rounded foundation of literary
knowledge. Twentieth-century America,
more so than America of the past three centuries, emerged as a quintessential
conglomerate of world cultures, literatures, and languages. Studying the literatures of the world is a
way of honoring the cultural richness of which the American nation is
made.
Pre-requisite: ENGL 1101.
IMPORTANT DATES
First day of Classes for this Course January 6, 2014
Drop/Add January
6-10, 2014
MLK Holiday (No class!) January
20, 2014
Mid-Semester February
27, 2014
Spring Break March
17-21, 2014
Last Day of class &
last day to submit ONE late assignment in this course April 28, 2014
Final D2L Exam May
6, 2014
SGSC GENERAL EDUCATION OUTCOMES:
Ø Students will apply knowledge of
historical, social, or cultural influences to understanding works of human
creativity.
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES OVERLAY:
Ø Students will analyze the nature of
historical, political, or societal issues from various viewpoints across the
globe.
COURSE-SPECIFIC STUDENT LEARNING
OUTCOMES (SLO's):
¨
Students
will apply knowledge of historical, social, or cultural influence to
understanding works of human creativity.
TEXTS/TOOLS:
¨
The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter Eighth Edition. Vol. 2: 1865 to the present. Editor: Nina Baym.
¨
Access to the
MLA Handbook, 7th ed. and to Merriam Webster’s Collegiate
Dictionary, 10th ed., or any other comprehensive English
dictionary; Students are encouraged to use the Merriam-Webster Online, which
can be accessed, free of charge, at http://www.m-w.com/
¨
Permanent access
to Internet, D2L, computer, printer, e-mail, and Microsoft Word
¨
USB drives for
archiving assignments
GRADING
Grades will be determined on a 1,000-point scale. You will receive points on each individual
assignment that add up to a possible total of 1,000 points. The final class grade will be determined
based on the following scale of total points earned in this class:
A=900-1000
B=800-899
C=700-799
D=600-699
F= 0-600
The grading at South Georgia College does not include any grades
with minuses and pluses.
PLAGIARISM POLICY
Definition:
Penalties:
ATTENDANCE POLICY:
Attendance is important
especially for understanding the concepts that will be tested on daily quizzes
and D2L assessments (Grammar Quiz, Final Exam, Extra-Credit Test). Per SGSC policy, students missing more than 5
times may be dropped from the class. The students are granted 4 absences, and
every absence in excess of these 4 will result in a 10% deduction from the
final grade. Additional absences will be
excused only based on valid documentation.
However, the students are advised not to come to class when they are
posing a health hazard, that is when they are contagious and may spread viruses
to their classmates because this will result in more students being absent due
to illness in the long run. Again, students are advised to withdraw from
the class if they are dealing with prolonged periods of illness and with other
issues that may interfere with their performance in this class. Being enrolled in class without doing the
work satisfactorily or at all will result in a failing final grade, so in this
case, it would be more advantageous to withdraw and take the class at a better
time.
Late assignments:
Absolutely no late
assignments or resubmissions of incorrectly posted assignments will be allowed
at any time and for any reason whatsoever.
The only allowance students have to make up for missed assignments is
the Extra-Credit Test.
Exceptions:
In exceptional situations,
when a technical difficulty or a medical situation hinders the student from
posting on time OR on the right assignment location,
Archiving assignments:
Given the high probabilities
of data loss and technical failures, students are encouraged to keep an
electronic copy of
DISRUPTION OF THE
ACADEMIC PROCESS:
Policy #1: Unsolicited chatting or other verbal or kinesthetic
disruption will be penalized with a deduction of 20 pts. each time from your
total grade score in this class.
Policy #2: As a courtesy to your classmates and to your teacher,
please turn off your cell phone and laptops during the class. Exception: you can have your laptops on for
class work and your cell phones on when you expect an important call; however,
if you need to use your cell phone, you need to step outside. Penalties for breaking laptop and cell phone
rules: 20 pts. off of your final grade score each time you are caught.
ACCESS STATEMENT
If you have a disability and
require reasonable classroom accommodations, please see Dr. Cozma after class
or make an appointment during office hours.
If you plan to request accommodations for a
disability, please register with the Office of Disability Services in Room 118,
Powell Hall, phone number 912-260-4435. Also, if you find that any
content in this course is inaccessible because of your disability, please
contact Dr. Cozma as soon as possible.
Counseling Services are confidential and available upon request. If you would like to schedule a session,
referral forms are located online or outside the counselor’s office. Please
complete and submit the referral form to the counselor. Do not
submit by email. Once you have submitted your form you will be contacted by
phone to set up an appointment. The
Counselor’s Office is located on the Douglas Campus in Powell Hall, Room 119,
phone number 912.260.4438, or Waycross Campus in the Dye Building, Room 130,
phone number 912.449.7593.
ASSIGNMENTS
POLICIES
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS SUBMISSION RULES
1.
All
written assignments must be submitted as attachments via D2L by going to
Assignments and selecting the respective assignment. Acceptable formats include Word (.doc),
Works (.wps), and Rich Text Format (.rtf) or PowerPoint if required. No assignments on paper or by email will be
accepted!
2.
The
student is responsible for checking if the files uploaded as assignments can be
opened and if they are the correct files.
TO DO THIS, THE STUDENT MUST GO BACK TO THE ASSIGNMENT,
D2L Submission
Guidelines:
By the date and time
prescribed in your syllabus, UPLOAD specified assignments to the Dropbox,
using the following instructions:
1)
Save your
assignment as a Word document (.doc) on a flash drive or computer that you will
be able to access while uploading your assignment on D2L.
2)
Log in to D2L at https://sgsc.view.usg.edu/
and click on this course
3)
Click on Dropbox
on the top.
4)
Click on the name
of the assignment folder you would like to submit, for example Term Paper. In the new window, you may read the Instructions
for this assignment.
5)
Click on Add a
File, then click on Browse.
Select your saved Word document that is your assignment.
6)
Click Upload.
7)
You should be
able to see the blue link of your attached assignment document. At this point, you have a chance to click on
it to open it and check if it's the correct document. If it's not, you can
click on the Delete icon to the right of the blue link and then repeat
steps 2-3.
8)
If it is the
right document, click Submit (bottom right).
ALWAYS VERIFY IF THE DOCUMENT YOU SUBMITTED AS AN ATTACHMENT CAN BE
OPENED
ASSIGNMENTS
DESCRIPTION
1. Daily
Quizzes (DQ)…………………………………………………………..……...400
pts.
These
are quizzes due before each class for which a reading is assigned, and are
meant to test your knowledge of the reading you do in preparation for each
class. Questions on these quizzes may
also refer to the additional information provided through lectures, handouts,
movies, etc. delivered in class.
2. Free-writing
(FW)…………………………………………..…………….……………20 pts.
All
students will be asked to write short in-class reflections on an assigned
topic. Random students will be selected
to present their free-writing. Each student will have one chance to do it.
3. Group debate
activity (GD)…………………………………………………………20 pts.
The
class will be divided into 2 groups
that will argue on opposite sides on an issue pertaining to the reading
assigned for that day.
4. Test on the 19th-century
texts (T19C)…………………………………………….
100 pts.
5.
Term Paper
on a modernist literary text (900 words) (TP)……………….150 pts.
Choose ONE ISSUE
from a modernist literary text (1914-1945) assigned for reading in this
class and discuss it in a 3-page term paper.
Show 1) how this issue is described in the context of the literary text
assigned for reading and 2) how it is defined by facts in a larger context
pertaining to ONE of these fields: economics, politics, religion, sociology,
science (including psychology).
Provide examples
from the text and examples of facts from your research that illustrate this
issue. As research sources, find two peer-reviewed articles and a book,
other than your textbook, and use a quote from each source. The quotes should
be integrated within your own comments, and parenthetical or in-text
citations should be used in MLA style.
Add at the end of your paper an Annotated Bibliography (sources should
have summaries under them) that should contain at least two articles
published in peer-reviewed journals and one book (other than your
textbook!). You should also cite in the paper and list on your Bibliography
the text assigned for reading from your textbook on which your topic is based.
Grading:
Parenthetical
citations should be used in MLA style.
MLA errors will be penalized with 2 pts. each.
MLA
correctness – 10 pts.
Annotations
– 10 pts.
Required
number and type of sources – 10 pts.
Notes:
* Penalty
for choosing a topic unrelated to a text assigned for reading from the
textbook: 50
** Penalty
for choosing a topic related to a text from another period: 50
6.
Term Paper
Interview (TPI)……………………………..………………………….20 pts.
·
the most
interesting thing you found out during research – 5 pts.
·
the main obstacle
you had to overcome when writing this project – 5 pts.
·
how you think
this type of project has contributed to your education – 5 pts.
·
one original idea
(of your own) that you included in your project (refer to your
comments/opinions) -
5 pts.
7. Research Presentation
(RP)………………………………………………………….90 pts.
(Assessment of SLO #5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use appropriate
technology to produce presentations and reports and/or conduct research and
data analysis.)
Each
student will have to choose a topic related to the contemporary texts (since
1945 to the present) assigned for reading in this class and identify three
sources that provide extensive information on that topic (one book, a
professional website endorsed by an institution, one peer-reviewed article). The peer-reviewed article should be found on
a specialized database in Galileo. Articles
found via a non-academic search engine will not be considered. These sources should be listed in an MLA
Annotated Bibliography and presented on a Word document along with a graphic and
a video link that would match the selected topic; the graphic and video may be
found through any search engine (Google, YouTube, etc.) and do not have to be
cited MLA.
This
document should be submitted as an attachment on D2L. Each student should also present the findings
of this research assignment orally in class, displaying the document submitted
in D2L, playing the video, and engaging in a dialogue with the class on the
topic.
Grading:
o
Audio & visual
components = 10 pts.
o
Class
Presentation: professional delivery and audience engagement = 20 pts.
o
Correct MLA usage
on Annotated Bibliography = 60 pts.
-
each required source type - 10 pts. (x3=30)
- annotation for each source - 10 pts.
(x3=30)
60 pts.
Notes:
* This assignment has to be submitted in D2L and also
presented in class.
**Penalty for choosing a topic unrelated to a text
assigned for reading from the textbook: 50 pts.
***Penalty for choosing a topic related to a text from
another period: 50 pts.
8. Oral Exam
(OE)……………………………………………………………..100 pts.
9. D2L Final
Exam (FE) ……………………………………………………….100 pts.
_______________________________________________________________
Total……………………………………………………………………..1,000
pts.
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES
1) D2L
Email Assignment (EA)………………………………………………………………10 pts.
D2L Orientation - Task B. Email your teacher, to the D2L
class email, your name, phone number, and an email address where you can be
contacted at any time during the semester.
2) D2L
Practice (P)…………………………………………………………………………10 pts.
D2L Orientation - Task C. This is only a submission
exercise, and you can use a blank document here to prove you know how to attach
an assignment. This is based on the D2L
Orientation document.
3) Extra-Credit Test (ECT)……………..…………………………………………………………..30
pts.
This test will be available on D2L to help
students make up some of the points lost on incorrect or missed assignments.
4) Writing for social causes -
(SC)…………………………………………………………………30 pts.
Facebook Awareness Campaigns - TBA
Class by Class Schedule
Week 1
Monday, January 6, 2014
¨
Presentation of
syllabus
¨
Teacher’s web
page presentation
¨
D2L Introduction
¨
D2L Orientation
Handout
Assignments for next class
¨
Read your
syllabus thoroughly and carefully
¨
Get
your D2L user login.
Your D2L username is the part of student email address prior to
the @ sign. If necessary, go to Self-Service Banner to obtain your student email address. Go to https://sgsc.view.usg.edu/ to log into D2L. From the D2L logon
screen, click on the “Forgot Password?” link. You’ll be asked to enter your
username, and then click Submit. There will now be a note about sending
your reset information to your student email account. Check your student email
after two or three minutes for the reset link. Return to D2L and login.
If the above info does not help you to retrieve your D2L login
info, please click on http://www.sgsc.edu/help to submit a
Trouble Ticket describing your problem(s) to the SGSC IT Department.
¨
Perform Task B on
the D2L Orientation Handout (email your teacher with the required info in D2L
Mail)
¨
Read: American Literature 1865-1914: Intro & Timeline,
pp. 3-19
¨
Read: Walt Whitman (pp. 20-23) & “The Wound-Dresser,” pp.
71-73
Wednesday, January 8,
2014
¨
Discussion of
readings
¨
Free writing
Assignments for next class
¨
Read: W.E.B. Du
Bois (pp. 531-532), “The Souls of Black Folk,” pp. 533-538
¨
Perform Task B on
the D2L Orientation Handout (email your teacher with the required info in D2L
Mail)
Week 2
Monday, January
13, 2013
¨
Discussion of
readings
¨
Free writing
Assignments for next class
¨ Daily Quiz 1 due by 8 AM, January 15, 2014 covers Intro & Timeline and assigned
readings by Whitman and Du Bois
¨
Read: Mark
Twain (pp. 98-101), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapters I-VI (1-6),
pp. 106-123
¨
Perform Task B on
the D2L Orientation Handout (email your teacher with the required info in D2L
Mail)
Wednesday, January 15,
2013
¨
Discussion of
readings
¨
Free writing
Assignments for next class
¨ Read: Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, chapters VI-XII (6-12), pp. 124-147
¨ Daily Quiz 2 due by 8 AM, January 22, 2014 covers assigned reading by Mark Twain.
Week 3
Monday, January 20, 2014 - MLK Holiday! No class!
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
¨
Discussion of
readings
Assignments for next class
¨
Read: Realism & Naturalism (pp. 548-549)
¨
Find definitions
of Naturalism that apply to the field of philosophy and the field of literature
¨
Watch the Dr. Alvin
Plantinga's speech "Refuting Naturalism by Citing Our Own
Consciousness" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r34AIo-xBh8
¨ Daily Quiz 3 due by 8 AM, January 27, 2014 covers assigned reading and video on
Realism and Naturalism.
Week 4
Monday,
January 27, 2014
¨
Discussion of
readings
Assignments for next class
¨
Read: Jack London (p. 563) & "What Life Means to
Me" (pp. 563-565)
¨ Daily Quiz 4 due by 8 AM, February 3,
2014 covers assigned reading by Jack London.
Wednesday, January
29, 2014
¨
Discussion of
readings
Assignments for next class
¨
Read Zitkala Ša
(pp. 639-641) & "The Soft-Hearted Sioux" - p. 647.
¨ Daily Quiz 5 due by 10 PM, February 3,
2014 covers assigned reading by Zitkala Ša.
¨
Review all 19th-century
readings
Week 5
Monday, February 3, 2014
¨
Review
all 19th-century readings
¨
Take
Quiz 5 in D2L by 10:00 PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
¨
Discussion of
readings
¨
Reviewing all 19th-century
readings
Week 6
Monday, February 10, 2014
¨
Submit Test on the 19th-century
period (T19C) in D2L by 10:00 PM February 10, 2014.
Assignments for next class
¨
Read: American Literature 1914-1945 - Intro & Timeline, pp.
653-672
¨
Read: Robert Frost (pp. 727-728) &
"Mending Wall" (pp. 729-730) + "The Road Not Taken" (pp.
735-736)
¨
Read: William Carlos Williams (pp. 777-779) & "The
Young Housewife" (p. 779) + "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
(p. 786)
¨ Daily Quiz 6 due by 8 AM, February 12, 2014 covers
assigned Intro readings above and the readings by Robert Frost and William
Carlos Williams.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
¨
Discussion of Intro
readings
¨
Discussion of other
assigned readings
Assignments for next class
¨ Read: Ernest Hemingway (pp. 1019-1021) & "The Snows
of Kilimanjaro" (pp. 1021-1037)
Week 7
Monday, February 17, 2014
¨
Discussion of
readings
¨ Watching the movie The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Assignments for next class
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - Watching
documentaries and submitting Quiz 7!
¨
Watch:
v US-Mexico Border Fence: The New
Berlin Wall? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JCFdbucXbs
v Take Up Your Cross - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUKDMsxyo5Y
v Louis Theroux Documentary.
African Hunting Party- Full Movie -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwkjvZjclf8
Assignments for next class
¨ Daily Quiz 7 due by 8 AM, February 24, 2014 covers
assigned readings by Hemingway and assigned documentaries.
Week 8
Monday, February 24, 2014
¨ Discussion of readings
¨ Watching the movie The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Midterm: Thursday, February 27, 2014!
There is no midterm exam or specific
assignment for this course. Your midterm
grades will be posted in Banner and D2L the weekend prior to the midterm
date. This midterm date is the last day
you can safely drop this class (consult with the Registrar for financial aid
implications).
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
¨ Discussion of readings
¨ Watching the movie The Snows of Kilimanjaro
¨ Introduction to Term Paper
¨ MLA Format
¨ Introduction to D2L Practice
Assignments for next class
¨
Read: Richard Wright (pp. 1060-1061) & "The Man
Who Was Almost A Man" (pp. 1061-1069)
Midterm: Thursday, February 27, 2014!
There is no midterm exam or specific
assignment for this course. Your midterm
grades will be posted in Banner and D2L the weekend prior to the midterm
date. This midterm date is the last day
you can safely drop this class (consult with the Registrar for financial aid
implications).
Week 9
Monday, March 3,
2014
¨ Discussion of readings
¨ Brainstorming for Term Paper
¨ Watching the movie The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 –
Library Orientation and Research for Term Paper
Assignments for next class
¨
Read: Richard Wright (pp. 1060-1061) &
"The Man Who Was Almost A Man" (pp. 1061-1069)
¨
Submit
the D2L Practice in D2L for extra-credit by 10:00 PM, March 5,
2014.
¨ Daily Quiz 8 due by 8 AM, March 5, 2014 covers assigned
reading by Richard Wright and the movie The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
Week 10
Monday, March 10, 2014 - Independent Research
for Term Paper
¨
Submit your Term Paper in D2L by 10 PM,
March 10, 2014
¨
Daily
Quiz 9 due by 8
AM, March 12, 2014 covers assigned Intro reading and the assigned reading by Elizabeth Bishop.
Assignments for next class
¨ Read: American Literature since 1945 - Introduction &
Timeline (pp. 1071-1087)
¨ Read: Elizabeth Bishop (pp. 1103-1105) & "One
Art" (1112-1113)
Wednesday, March
12, 2014
¨ Discussion of readings
¨ Reviewing Term Paper
Submission and grades
¨ Term Paper
Interview
Assignments for next class
¨ Read: Denise
Levertov (pp. 1323-1325) & "To the Snake" (1325); "The
Jacob's Ladder" (1325-1326); "In Mind" (1326)
¨ Read: Jhumpa
Lahiri (pp. 1649-1650) & "Sexy" (1650-1665)
Week 11
Monday, March 17, 2014 & Wednesday,
March 19, 2014 - Spring Break!
Assignments for next class
¨ Read: Denise
Levertov (pp. 1323-1325) & "To the Snake" (1325); "The
Jacob's Ladder" (1325-1326); "In Mind" (1326)
¨ Read: Jhumpa
Lahiri (pp. 1649-1650) & "Sexy" (1650-1665)
Week 12
Monday, March 24, 2014
¨ Discussion of readings
¨ Term Paper
Interview
¨ Human Trafficking and Adult Industry Abuse Resources - The Pink Cross Foundation http://thepinkcross.org/
Assignments for next class
¨ Read:
Gwendolyn Brooks (pp. 1309-1310) & "the mother" (1310-1311);
"To the Diaspora" (1312-1313)
¨ Read: Martin
Luther King, Jr. (1393-1395) & "I Have a Dream" (1395-1398)
Wednesday, March
26, 2014
¨ Discussion of readings
¨ Term Paper
Interview
Assignments for next class
¨
Read: Julia Alvarez (1569) & "The Mother"
(1570-1577)
¨
Read: Edwidge Danticat (1643) & "Brother, I'm
Dying" (1643-1645)
¨
Read: Jamaica Kincaid (1626-1627) & "Girl"
(1627-1628)
Week 13
Monday, March 31, 2014
¨ Daily Quiz 10 due by 10:00 PM, March 31, 2014 covers
assigned reading by Denise
Levertov and Jhumpa Lahiri.
¨ Daily Quiz 11 due by 10:00 PM, March 31, 2014 covers
assigned readings by Gwendolyn
Brooks and Martin Luther King,
Jr.
¨
Daily
Quiz 12 due by
10:00 PM, March 31, 2014 covers assigned readings by Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica
Kincaid.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
¨ Introduction to Research
Presentation
Week 14
Monday, April 7,
2014
¨ Brainstorming for Research
Presentation
¨ Discussion of readings
Assignments for next class
¨
Complete and submit your Research Presentation in D2L by Monday, April
14, 2014 @ 10:00 PM
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - Independent
Work for Research Presentation!
¨
Submit your Reseach Presentation in D2L
by 8 AM, April 14, 2014.
Assignments for next class
¨ Come to class
next time ready to present your research presentation in class. You will have to open it in electronic form
in class from your email or your D2L where you submitted it. USB drives may
fail!
Week 15
Monday, April 14, 2014
¨ Research
Presentations
Assignments for next class
¨ Come to class next
time ready to present your research presentation in class. You will have to open it in electronic form
in class from your email or your D2L where you submitted it. USB drives may
fail!
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
¨ Research
Presentations
Assignments for next class
¨ Come to class next
time ready to present your research presentation in class. You will have to open it in electronic form
in class from your email or your D2L where you submitted it. USB drives may
fail!
Week 17
Monday, April 21, 2014 - Independent
Study for Oral Exam
¨
Review
all readings and notes for Oral Exam
¨ Take your
Extra-Credit Test in D2L by 10 PM, April 21, 2014.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
¨ Oral Exam
Assignments for next class
¨
Review all
readings and notes for Oral Exam
Week 18
Monday, April 28, 2013
¨ Oral Exam
Assignments
¨
Take the Final Exam in D2L by May 6, 2013 at
10:00 PM