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
- Reading quizzes: to be given at the beginning of class on the first
day that the text appears on the syllabus
- 2 short (300 500 word) essays; 1 mid-length (700 900 word); 1
long (1200 1500 word)
- Final Exam
- Regular attendance, punctuality, participation
Policies:
- No late work will be accepted!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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