Semester | Fall Semester, 2023 | ||
Department | Sophomore Class A, Department of English Sophomore Class B, Department of English | ||
Course Name | English Literature Before 1600 | ||
Instructor | SELLARI THOMAS-JOHN | ||
Credit | 3.0 | ||
Course Type | Selectively | ||
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Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
Students are expected to attend every class session, read all the assigned works, hand in several short worksheets, and take a midterm and final exams. The workload will most likely vary from five to ten hours per week, depending on the reading level of the student. class 1: introduction; history and language class2: Beowulf, lines 1--85, 491--835, 1251--1650, 2999--3182 class 3: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I.130--490, IV.2239--end; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue 1--50, 447--478 class 4: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (handout) class 5: Chaucer (cont'd) class 6: William Langland, Pers Plowman, Passus 6; The Second Shepherd's Play class 7: Thomas More, Utopia; Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso list...'' ``I find...,'' MIDTERM EXAM 1 class 8: William Tyndale, Thomas More, John Calvin, John Foxe, homilies: pp. 677--678, 679--681, 681--687, 688, 693--695 class 9: Roger Ascham, Thomas Hoby, Elizabeth I: pp. 700--703, 704--720, 750--766} class 10: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti 1, 37, 54, 65, 75, 79; The Faerie Queene Book I, Cantos 2, 6 class 11: John Lyly, Euphues; Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesy and Astrophil and Stella 1, 5, 41, 52, 71; Francis Bacon``On Truth'' MIDTERM EXAM 2 class 12: Christopher Marlowe,"The Passionate Shepherd" and Dr. Faustus, scenes 1, 5, 12, 13 class 13: William Shakespeare, sonnets 3, 20, 29, 73, 94, 106, 116, 130, 138, 144, 147 and Twelfth Night, Acts I--II class 14: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Acts III--IV class 15: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V class 16: FINAL EXAM |
Teaching Methods |
Teaching Assistant |
Depending on their availability and competence, teaching assistants may be responsible for grading worksheets and exams; developing, copying, and distributing additional materials; and leading class discussions. |
Requirement/Grading |
Grades will be based on the midterm exams (50%) and the final exam (50%). Attendance is required. Points may be deducted for missed class sessions or obvious unpreparedness. |
Textbook & Reference |
required: _The Norton Anthology of English Literature_, vol. 1 (ninth edition), or vols. A and B (tenth edition).
recommended reading: C.S. Lewis, _The Discarded Image_. E.M.W. Tillyard, _The Elizabethan World Picture_. |
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