: Winter Term 1 English Readings in Narrative

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1 : Winter Term 1 English Readings in Narrative Dr. Marie Loughlin Class Time: 10:30-11:30 Office: Arts 144 Classroom: Arts 202 Office Phone: Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-3:30 or by Marie.Loughlin@ubc.ca appointment CALENDAR ENTRY This course introduces students to a variety of narrative forms including anecdotes, autobiography, biography, diaries, films, histories, myths, narrative poems, novels and songs. Each section of the course will study works from at least three different forms of narrative. COURSE CONTENT In this section of 153 we will be reading narratives from the following genres: myth, autobiography, contemporary fiction, the popular fantasy novel, fairytale, epic, and the gothic short story. REQUIRED TEXTS The novels for this course are available for purchase in the bookstore. The other texts are available online, either on the Web (addresses appended below, or go to WebCT and click on the relevant web link) or as WebCT documents. CREATION MYTHS: Genesis ( King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/) The Creation of the Gods from Hesiod s Theogony [Ancient Greece] WebCT Bumba Creates the World [the Bushongo People, Zaire, Africa] WebCT Earth Initiate Creates the World [the Maidu People, North America] FAIRY TALES AND FOLKTALES: Madame de Beaumont. Beauty and the Beast ( Charles Perrault. Cinderella ( Little Red Riding Hood ( Anonymous (as recorded by Andrew Lang) Jack and the Beanstalk ( Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Snow White ( Anonymous. From The Thousand and One Nights ( english/stories_tales/lailaindex.asp) [Arab Cultural Trust] EPIC: Beowulf ( THE SHORT STORY: Edgar Allan Poe, The Telltale Heart ( Nathaniel Hawthorne. Young Goodman Brown (WebCT)

2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Frances Burney, On Her Mastectomy (WebCT) NOVELS: Goldman, William. The Princess Bride. New York: Ballantine, (UBC-O Bookstore) Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story. London: Penguin, (UBC-O Bookstore) Barth, John. Chimera. New York: Mariner, (UBC-O Bookstore) EVALUATION CRITERIA AND GRADING: In-class Essay #1 (literary analysis) 12% (approx. 500 words) Essay #2 (expository essay) 15% (800 words) Essay #3 (research essay) 20% (1, 200 words) 2 tests 20% (10% each) Summary 10% Library Quiz 3% Final Exam 20% (In the exam period) Students must achieve an average of 50% on their in-class work in order to receive a passing grade in the course. LATE PENALTIES The late penalty is 5% per day. Penalties apply except in cases of illness or death in the family; students must provide documentation on request. IN-CLASS WORK I apply final exam regulations to all in-class work. In other words, if you miss either of the tests, I will allow you to re-sit it only for one of the following reasons: 1. Medical grounds (sickness of yourself, or [if you are the sole caregiver] of a child or dependant) 2. Compassionate grounds (the death of a close relative, such as a father, mother, uncle, etc.) 3. Religious grounds (if a test falls on a religious holiday or day of observance) 4. Special employment, educational or extraordinary athletic activities (e.g., an interview for a job overseas which requires your presence in Vancouver; attendance at a national or international science fair at which you are presenting an exhibit; participation in varsity sports games in other cities or participation in national/international sports events) Tests CANNOT be rescheduled to accommodate vacation plans, work schedules or reasons other than those satisfying the above criteria. Students must provide documentation from a relevant professional on request (i.e., medical doctor, minister, etc.). SUBMISSION ON ASSIGNMENTS In this course you will be required to submit the following out-of-class assignments in electronic form: Essay #2 (expository essay) and Essay #3. You will submit them to a service to which UBC subscribes, called Turnitin (see the link under Student Resources on WebCT. This is a service that checks textual material for originality. It is increasingly used in North American universities. A page describing Turnitin and the University s reasons for using it can be found at < I will show you how to set up your account.

3 CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE Students are expected to be courteous and attentive. Good classes require participation. Read material for classes in advance. your preparation and LAPTOPS Although laptops are permitted in the class, students who abuse this device by surfing the internet, answering , or looking at Facebook during lecture will not be allowed to bring them. Individuals with laptops agree to seating restrictions where these can be implemented (i.e., I may ask you to sit in the back three rows of the class). OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES Note that other electronic devices, particularly cell phones, must be turned off during the class. Photographs and recordings of the lectures and discussions, and in particular of me, members of the class, and any guests are prohibited for privacy and security reasons. Those who wilfully violate this policy will be reported to the Dean for disciplinary action and will not be readmitted to the class until this issue has been resolved. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY The academic enterprise is founded on honesty, civility, and integrity. As members of this enterprise, all students are expected to know, understand, and follow the codes of conduct regarding academic integrity. At the most basic level, this means submitting only original work done by you and acknowledging all sources of information or ideas and attributing them to others as required. This also means you should not cheat, copy, or mislead others about what is your work. A more detailed description of academic integrity, including the policies and procedures, may be found at: ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: PLAGIARISM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING 1. COPYING Definition: when an entire essay is copied from an author, or composed by another person, and [is then] presented [by the student] as [his or her own] original work (2) Some Examples: Completely plagiarized work can be a copy of material in a published journal article, in a book chapter, from the Internet, from another student, or from another source (2); an essay written by a professional essay writing service or one written by a professional tutor is also plagiarism if a student submits it as his or her own original work. 2. DOVETAILING Definition: submitting the same assignment for two courses (3) Some Examples: Submitting the same work (presumably your work) for two different assignments is considered plagiarism and will carry the same consequence, even if the two assignments were completed at different institutions (3)

4 3. SLOPPY DOCUMENTATION AND CITATION PRACTICES a. Taking phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or statistical findings from a variety of sources and piecing them together into an essay (piecemeal plagiarism) b. Taking the words of another author and failing to note clearly that they are not your own. In other words, you have not put a direct quotation within quotation marks c. Using statistical findings without acknowledging your source d. Taking another author s idea, without your own critical analysis, and failing to acknowledge that this idea is not your own e. Paraphrasing (i.e., rewording or rearranging words so that your work resembles, but does not copy, the original) without acknowledging your source f. Using footnotes or material quoted in other sources as if they were the result of your own research g. Submitting a piece of work with inaccurate text references, sloppy footnotes, or incomplete source (bibliographic) information (3) Source: Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. Plagiarism Avoided: Taking Responsibility For Your Work. Vancouver: UBC, Because this course examines in detail the use of sources (including how to summarize, paraphrase, quote, cite and document them), I treat all instances agiarism very seriously: essays that violate the above standards will receive a failing grade; very serious cases will receive a zero, and such a grade involves referring the matter to the Dean who may apply other penalties. PLAGIARISM PENALTIES SCHEDULE: Class Schedule and Assignment Due Dates WEEK 1: SEPT 8-10: INTRODUCTION Sept 8: Introduction to the Course (WebCT; Turnitin.com; Library Quiz) Sept 10: How to write a literary analysis (structure and purpose; argument; comparison and contrast) WEEK 2: SEPT 13-17: Narratives of Origin and Their Rewritings Sept 13: Creation narratives: Genesis 1-3 Sept 15: Creation narratives: Sept 17: Creation narratives: sample literary analysis SEPT 17 TH : LIBRARY QUIZ DUE (3%) WEEK 3: SEPT 20-24: LIBRARY ORIENTATION, IN-CLASS ESSAY, AND FAIRY TALES Sept 20: Library Orientation (with Jan Gattrell) SEPT 22: IN-CLASS ESSAY [LITERARY ANALYSIS] (12%) Sept 24: Introduction to Fairy Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk WEEK 4: SEPT 27-OCT 1 FAIRY TALES Sept 20: Beauty and the Beast Sept 22: Little Red Riding Hood Sept 24: Snow White and Cinderella

5 WEEK 4: SEPT 27-OCT 1: REWRITING FAIRY TALES AS METAFICTION I Sept 27: The Princess Bride Sept 29: The Princess Bride OCT 1: TEST #1 WEEK 5: OCT 4-8: REWRITING FAIRYTALES AS METAFICTION I Oct 4: How to write an expository essay (structure and purpose; summary and paraphrase; documentation and citation) Oct 6: The Princess Bride Oct 8: The Princess Bride OCT 8: SUMMARY DUE (10%) Midterm Break: Monday, October 11 (Thanksgiving) Tuesday October 12 WEEK 6: OCT THE PRINCESS BRIDE: NOVEL AND MOVIE OCT 11: THANKSGIVING (UNIVERSITY CLOSED) Oct 13: Revisioning The Princess Bride: The Movie Version Oct 15: Revisioning The Princess Bride: The Movie Version WEEK 7: OCT BEOWULF : EPIC AND THE STORY OF A NATION Oct 18: Beowulf Oct 20: Beowulf Oct 22: Beowulf OCT 22: ESSAY #2 DUE (15%) WEEK 8: OCT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE Oct 25: Frances Burney, On Her Mastectomy Oct 27: How to write a research paper (structure and purpose; argument) Oct 29: How to write a research paper (use of secondary sources) WEEK 9: NOV 1-5 THE GOTHIC SHORT STORY NOV 1: TEST #1 (10%) Nov 3: Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Nov 5: Neverending Story WEEK 10: NOV 8-12 THE FANTASY NOVEL AS METAFICTION II Nov 8: Neverending Story Nov 10: Neverending Story Nov 12: The Simpsons Do The Neverending Story WEEK 11: NOV FRAME NARRATIVE AND METAFICTION III Nov 15: from The Thousand and One Nights Nov 17: from The Thousand and One Nights Nov 19: from The Thousand and One Nights WEEK 12: NOV REWRITING THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Nov 22: John Barth s Dunyazadiad (in Chimera)

6 NOV 22: ESSAY #3 DUE (RESEARCH ESSAY) [20%] Nov 24: John Barth s Dunyazadiad (in Chimera) Nov 26: John Barth s Dunyazadiad (in Chimera) WEEK 13: NOV 29-DEC 3 RD : REVIEW Nov 29: Husain s The Death of Sharazad (online) Dec 1: Exam Review DEC 3 : TEST #2 (10% ) ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: The academic enterprise is founded on honesty, civility, and integrity. As members of this enterprise, all students are expected to know, understand, and follow the codes of conduct regarding academic integrity. At the most basic level, this means submitting only original work done by you and acknowledging all sources of information or ideas and attributing them to others as required. This also means you should not cheat, copy, or mislead others about what is your work. A more detailed description of academic integrity, including the policies and procedures, may be found at: ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: PLAGIARISM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: I. COPYING Definition: when an entire essay is copied from an author, or composed by another person, and [is then] presented [by the student] as [his or her own] original work (2) Some Examples: Completely plagiarized work can be a copy of material in a published journal article, in a book chapter, from the Internet, from another student, or from another source (2); an essay written by a professional essay writing service or one written by a professional tutor is also plagiarism if a student submits it as his or her own original work. II. DOVETAILING Definition: submitting the same assignment for two courses (3) Some Examples: Submitting the same work (presumably your work) for two different assignments is considered plagiarism and will carry the same consequence, even if the two assignments were completed at different institutions (3) III. SLOPPY DOCUMENTATION AND CITATION PRACTICES 1. Taking phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or statistical findings from a variety of sources and piecing them together into an essay (piecemeal plagiarism) 2. Taking the words of another author and failing to note clearly that they are not your own. In other words, you have not put a direct quotation within quotation marks

7 3. Using statistical findings without acknowledging your source 4. Taking another author s idea, without your own critical analysis, and failing to acknowledge that this idea is not your own 5. Paraphrasing (i.e., rewording or rearranging words so that your work resembles, but does not copy, the original) without acknowledging your source 6. Using footnotes or material quoted in other sources as if they were the result of your own research 7. Submitting a piece of work with inaccurate text references, sloppy footnotes, or incomplete source (bibliographic) information (3) Source: Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. Plagiarism Avoided: Taking Responsibility For Your Work. Vancouver: UBC, Because this course examines in detail the use of sources (including how to summarize, paraphrase, quote, cite and document them), I treat all instances of plagiarism very seriously: essays that violate the above standards will receive a failing grade; very serious cases will receive a zero, and such a grade involves referring the matter to the Dean who may apply other penalties. PLAGIARISM PENALTIES