Evaluation strategy:

Participation and discussion 40%

5 written assignments    60%

Attendance requirements:

All students are required to attend classes regularly.  You score 0 for the "partipication and discussion" section if you miss more than 3 classes. Without these 40 points, you run serious risks of failing.

Essay requirements

All written assignments should be double-spaced throughout and should be more than 700 words. The required font is Times New Romance. The size of words should be 12. You should make sure that there is a word count at the end of your essay. You should also make sure that you give your essay a proper title and write your name on it. Any essay that fails to live up to any of the above requirements will not be accepted.

All students are required to submit their written assignments on time. Late submission, for whatever reason, will not be accepted. You will get a 0 as a result. This means that you lose 12 points of your final grade if you fail to submit 1 written assignment on time. 

Textbooks

The instructor will prepare a course pack for students. It will be available for collection at the University photocopying centre in due course. Please collect it and bring it to class.

We will read and discus Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice throughout this academic year. In the spring term, students are required to write a research paper about this novel. You are therefore recommended to get hold of one copy of this novel before the autumn term starts. This novel is widely available in major bookstores. Any edition will do, although a scholarly edition (e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Norton, Penguin, Broadview … etc.) may be ideal. This is because the explanatory notes and critical introduction in such editions can help students to understand this novel better.