Instructor: Dr. Clay Daniel
TR 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Office: 233 ELABS
E-mail: clay.daniel@utrgv.edu
Internet Site: faculty.utrgv.edu/clay.daniel
Office Hours: 3:30-5:00; 7:30-9:00 TR
I.Course Description: Introduction to British
Literature: A study of several masterpieces of English Literature
II. Texts:
B. Course study guide: this guide includes the notes that I
use to deliver class lectures.
C. Blackboard/Learn. Strictly optional if you are not in an
online version of the course. Some of its course-enhancements for a class that
meets are extra credit quizzes, extra credit essay assignments, an electronic
forum, and an up-to-date calendar, and a listing of your grades.
III. Course Requirements: Your grade will be determined
as follows:
A) Quizzes: 10%
B) Essay: 10%
C) 4 major exams, including comprehensive final: 20% each
D) Blackboard Extra Credit Assignments
A). Quizzes: BB/online.
Answers are given.
B). Essay: See online
handout for essay guidelines.
C). Major Exams: Exams will consist of a mixture of essay and
objective questions
D). Blackboard: All work due three weeks before the last
class day (excluding the day of the final exam). There is a 40
point total limit for all extra credit:
IV.TENTATIVE OUTLINE OF COURSE WORK: CHECK BB CALENDAR FOR
CURRENT/UP-TO-DATE SCHEDULE
Week 1---Aug 29: Introduction to Course. Assessment
test.
Week 1---Sept 5: Beowulf
Week 2---Sept 12: Canterbury
Tales; ballads; medieval drama.
Week 3---Sept 19: Thomas Malory’s Morte D’Arthur
Week 4---Sept 26: TEST 1. Then introduction to
Elizabethan theatre.
Week 5—Oct 3: Dr. Faustus. Library orientation
Week 6---Oct 10: Measure
for Measure.
Week 7---Oct 17: Twelfth
Night
Week 8---Oct 24: Critical Perspectives. Shakespeare
Extras
Week 9---Oct 31: Test 2. Then Renaissance Pastoral: Lycidas
Week 10---Nov 7: Finish Renaissance Pastoral. Then
Victorian Background.
Week 11---Nov 14: Test 3. Then the Victorian novel. A Christmas Carol.
Week 12---Nov 21: Modernism Background. All Extra Credit,
BB work, and Essay due.
Week 13---Nov 28: Modernism, contd. T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock;
Week 14---Dec 5: Review for final.
Week 15---Final Exam
V. Course Policies: All course policies are subject to
change to accord with university policies.
1. Attendance: No attendance required. For those
attending, follow university covid-requirements and local legal requirements
(masks, social distancing, stay home if sick etc.) I will attempt to enforce
these. If you see anything amiss, let me know. But I’m neither a policeman nor
a physician. In a classroom, the possibility of human interaction is often
difficult to avoid. If this alarms you, you can choose not to attend. I’m also
teaching this class on-line, and the BB sites are identical. Let me know if you
want to approach the class as an on-line course. In any case, you attend at
your own risk.
2. You can provide suggestions or questions to me
throughout the semester in person, during conferences, or by posting comments
(anonymous allowed) through Blackboard/Class Forum.
3. Be aware of current university policies on drops and
changes-of-grade. Be particularly aware that you are responsible for having the
course dropped by the appropriate date.
4. Post-Course
Policy: The material taught in this course is covered by a kind of informal
"warranty." If you pass this course with a "C" or better,
please feel to ask me any questions---throughout your academic career---on any
material covered in this course---especially material whose lack of
understanding interferes with your doing well in other classes.
5.Email me. If you must call (not a good idea), see me
and I’ll give you a number. If you email me, either with questions or material,
expect an answer within 48 hrs., except on weekends. If I don’t respond, I
didn’t receive it.
6.Often the class, at the beginning of the semester,
changes to a different classroom. Since it takes time officially to process
this change, the change might not appear on the Assist system. If you can’t
find the classroom (students almost always have), contact me (or the English
Department).
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:
Students with a documented disability (physical,
psychological, learning, or other disability which affects academic
performance) who would like to receive academic accommodations should contact
Student Accessibility Services (SAS) as soon as possible to schedule an appointment
to initiate services. Accommodations can
be arranged through SAS at any time, but are not
retroactive. Students who suffer a
broken bone, severe injury or undergo surgery during the semester are eligible
for temporary services.
Pregnancy, Pregnancy-related, and Parenting
Accommodations
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits
sex discrimination, which includes discrimination based on pregnancy, marital
status, or parental status. Students seeking accommodations related to pregnancy,
pregnancyrelated condition, or parenting (reasonably
immediate postpartum period) are encouraged to contact Student Accessibility
Services for additional information and to request accommodations.
Student Accessibility Services:
Brownsville Campus: Student Accessibility Services is located in Cortez Hall Room 129 and can be contacted by
phone at (956) 882-7374 (Voice) or via email at
ability@utrgv.edu. Edinburg Campus: Student Accessibility
Services is located in 108 University Center and can
be contacted by phone at (956) 665-7005 (Voice), (956) 665-3840 (Fax), or via
email at ability@utrgv.edu.
SCHOLASTIC INTEGRITY (ALSO SEE CODE BELOW):
As members of a community dedicated to Honesty, Integrity
and Respect, students are reminded that those who engage in scholastic
dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of
failure in the course and expulsion from the University. Scholastic dishonesty
includes but is not limited to: cheating, plagiarism (including selfplagiarism), and collusion; submission for credit of
any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to
another person; taking an examination for another person;
any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student; or the attempt to
commit such acts. Since scholastic dishonesty harms the individual, all
students and the integrity of the University, policies on scholastic dishonesty
will be strictly enforced (Board of Regents Rules and Regulations and UTRGV
Academic Integrity Guidelines). All scholastic dishonesty incidents will be
reported to the Dean of Students.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION, and VIOLENCE:
In accordance with UT System regulations, your instructor
is a “Responsible Employee” for reporting purposes under Title IX regulations
and so must report any instance, occurring during a student’s time in college,
of sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, domestic violence, or sexual
harassment about which she/he becomes aware during this course through writing,
discussion, or personal disclosure. More information can be found at
www.utrgv.edu/equity, including confidential resources available on campus. The
faculty and staff of UTRGV actively strive to provide a learning, working, and
living environment that promotes personal integrity, civility, and mutual
respect that is free from sexual misconduct and discrimination.
VI. THECB Core Objectives
A. UTRGV Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Critical Thinking (CT): Students will demonstrate
comprehension of a variety of written texts and other information sources by
analyzing and evaluating the logic, validity, and relevance of the information
in them to solve challenging problems, to arrive at wellreasoned
conclusions, and to develop and explore new questions.
2. Communication Skills (COM): Students will demonstrate the
ability to adapt their communications to a particular context, audience, and
purpose using language, genre conventions, and sources appropriate to a specific
discipline and/or communication task.
3. Social Responsibility (SR): Students will recognize and
describe cultural diversity, the role of civic engagement in society, and the
link between ethics and behavior.
4. Personal Responsibility (PR): Students will demonstrate
an awareness of the range of human values and beliefs that they draw upon to
connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.
B. Department Objectives for ENGL 2321
In this
course,
1.
Students will extend
their communication and critical thinking skills by developing well-reasoned,
logical, and ethical arguments and by enlarging their ability to analyze texts,
to synthesize ideas, and to think abstractly. (CT, COM,
PR)
2.
Students will be
able to recognize literary texts as vehicles of value from an assortment of
cultures: national, regional, ethnic, gendered, privileged, and oppressed. (CT,
SR, PR) 3.
Students will study a mixture of literary works from a variety of cultural
backgrounds in order to advance their intercultural
literacy. (SR, PR)
4. Students will gain an aesthetic understanding of the
creative treatment of social and cultural debates as well as a growing
awareness of their own relation to the social/cultural stakes inherent in these
issues. (CT, SR, PR) 5. Students will develop thoughtful personal responses to
the social issues covered in the course and will further develop an ethical
sensibility to inform their own choices as ethical actors. (CT, COM, SR, PR)
6.
Students will
develop, evaluate, and deploy a variety of critical methodologies for
understanding the human condition, including but not limited to historical,
psychological, biographical, social, and feminist approaches.
(CT, COM, PR, SR)
7.
Students will
demonstrate their ability to ethically cite from other texts in
order to create a persuasive argument.
(CT, COM, PR)
UTPA [UTRGV?]CODE OF ACADEMIC
INTEGRITY
❖ The first confirmed violation of academic dishonesty (as
defined in HOP section 5.5.2) by an undergraduate student will result in the
following action:
➢The recommended penalty will be an F for the course and
completion of an educational program on academic integrity. If the matter is taken to a hearing officer,
the
academic penalty imposed will consider any recommendation
of the faculty member involved.
➢The student will be informed that a second violation may
result in suspension or expulsion.
➢A copy of the sanction letter will be forwarded to the
student’s academic chair.
❖ The second confirmed violation of academic integrity by
an undergraduate student (or first by a graduate student) will result in the
following action:
➢The recommended penalty will be an F for the course and
suspension or expulsion. If the matter
is taken to a hearing officer, the academic penalty imposed will take into
consideration any recommendation of the faculty member involved.
➢If expelled, the student’s transcript will contain the
notation, “Expelled for Academic Misconduct,” along with the applicable date.
➢A copy of the sanction letter will be sent to appropriate
academic officials.
Also be aware of “the Bronc/Vaquero Honor Code: As
members of a community dedicated to honesty, integrity, and mutual respect in
all interactions and relationships the students, faculty and administration of
our university pledge to abide by the principles in The Bronc/Vaquero Honor
Code.”