Course Requirements

Texts: (available at Labyrinth Bookstore 112th b/n B’way and A’dam)

Beowulf
William Shakespeare, King Lear
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Photocopy packet (available at Village Copier 115th b/n B’way and Riverside)

Requirements

  1. Reading quizzes: to be given at the beginning of class on the first day that the text appears on the syllabus
  2. 2 short (300 ­ 500 word) essays; 1 mid-length (700 ­ 900 word); 1 long (1200 ­ 1500 word)
  3. Final Exam
  4. Regular attendance, punctuality, participation

Policies:

  1. No late work will be accepted!
  2. Attendance, preparation, and participation are all mandatory. You will be allowed a maximum of two absences. More than twowill lower your grade; more than four means automatic failure. Class begins promptly at 4:10. Late arrivals will be noted and three will be counted as an absence.
  3. All papers must be typed in a 10- or 12-point font, double spaced and stapled. Each must have a title, reasonable margins, and your name, my name, the assignment, date and course number.
  4. You should be aware of Columbia’s official policy on plagiarism and academic dishonesty, a full statement of which can be found in the Columbia University Bulletin. The major points are these: plagiarism is a serious offense punishable by suspension or expulsion; the definition of plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, these criteria: (1) submitting work, or portions of work, written by others as one’s own; (2) failing to acknowledge, through proper footnotes and bibliographic entries, the source of ideas essentially not one’s own; (3) failing to indicate paraphrases or ideas or verbatim expressions not one’s own through proper use of quotations and footnotes; (4) submitting an essay written for one course to a second course without prior permission from both instructors.