202A W18 North

ENGL 202A

Course Schedule and Lecture Content

Final Examination Arrangements and Schedule

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• If your address in QUEST is within 100 km of an examination centre, you must choose an exam centre in Quest by Sunday, January 14, 2018. This must be done each term.
• If your address in Quest is more than 100 km from an exam centre, you must arrange for a proctor. Please review the guidelines and deadlines for writing with a proctor. This must be done each term.

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University of Waterloo Senate-approved academic regulations related to assignments, tests, and final exams an be found on the Registrar's website.

Official Grades and Course Access

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Contact Information

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Description

The Bible is probably the most widely read book in human history, and probably the most influential in the development of western society (although recently it is much more widely read in the east). It is certainly the most commonly referred to throughout the works of English literature. Some writers depend on it for their titles (such as Henry James in The Golden Bowl, Sinclair Ross in As For Me and My House, Graham Greene in "The Second Death"); for plots (Milton in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost, Steinbeck in East of Eden), for themes (Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises, Eliot in Murder in the Cathedral, Browning in "Saul").

Some of these writers allude to the Bible sympathetically, as do Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Donne, Hopkins, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Coleridge; others with ambivalence, as do Hemingway and Arnold. But almost every significant writer refers to the Bible.

Your primary task in this course is to become familiar with the Bible. Without knowing it well, you can not hope to recognize its role in English literature or in our culture generally. Without knowing the Bible well  you will not understand the context of much of our literature. For instance, Ernest Hemingway takes his title The Sun Also Rises from Solomon's book of Ecclesiastics. But Hemingway ends where Solomon begins — that all is vanity — and does not present Solomon's answer — it is good to fear the Lord and rejoice in the world and in our lives.

We will not spend much time in detailed analysis of works of literature, for the course is not long enough to do so. The last lecture will look at a few poems and apply the term's work to them. But in general we will refer to literature in passing, and to much of it, knowing that many of the students will have read only a small percentage of that literature. But that is alright. Students are not expected to bring a wide-ranging knowledge of English literature to the course.

In this course, as in every course, the professor has a bias: I am a Christian. To face this bias is realistic, and avoids the danger of smuggling propaganda into the course under the cover of 'objectivity'. Students are not expected to agree with the text, much less to be Christians. But they are expected to follow Coleridge'  advice in Biographia Literaria, Chapter 9, that "the willing suspension of disbelief" is essential if we are to understand and enjoy literature. Demonstrate that you KNOW the text and can comment on it wisely.

Objectives

• To become familiar with the major stories of the Old Testament
• To become familiar with the major themes of the Old Testament
• To become familiar with the major literary elements of the Old Testament: the genres, which is to say the types (such as story, song, proverb, parable, genealogy, dream vision); the symbols (lion, lamb, snake, rock, rain, dove, rose); the poetic structure (such as parallelism in Psalms 1:1, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful";).
• To recognize allusions to the Bible in works of English, American and Canadian literature.
• To anticipate New Testament elements in the Old Testament, elements such as the structure (both begin with emphasis on the Word, with genealogies, and with commandments; both have histories, both end with dream visions, both emphasize a vision of the Son of Man); the themes (blood sacrifice, hell, heaven, guilt, forgiveness), the stories (Elijah and Moses are like Jesus, Saul is like Paul, Hannah is like Elizabeth and Mary), the symbols (Moses' serpent of brass is like Jesus, the Passover is like the Lord's Supper, Jonah's three days in the whale is like Jesus' three days in the grave).
• To learn to think and write independently. Writing a one-page outline of your essay, its ideas, its conclusions as distinct from its topics, is a critical step in this process.

About the Course Author

John North

John North was born in Vancouver, B.C. and studied at the University of British Columbia (B.A. Math and English; M.A. English) and at the University of Alberta (Ph.D. 1969). He has been in the Department of English at Waterloo since 1968, except for a year as a Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow at UBC and a year as Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast. His academic interests are Victorian Literature, Children's Literature, and Literature and the Bible. He has edited The English Quarterly for the Canadian Council of Teachers of English, Computing in the Humanities (1977), Vital Candle: Victorian and Modern Bearings in the Poetry of G.M. Hopkins (1981), and several reference volumes on nineteenth century British newspapers and periodicals. Another interest is the Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University at the University of Waterloo, of which he was the founding chairman, and for which he edited Malcolm Muggeridge's The End of Christendom (1980), Donald MacKay's Science and the Quest for Meaning (1981), Charles Malik's A Christian Critique of the University (1981), Josef Pieper's What is a Feast? (1988), and Margaret Avison's A Kind of Perseverance (1994). He and his wife Roberta enjoy gardening, their family pets, and their motorcycle. They have 3 grown sons.

Materials and Resources

Textbooks

Required

1. King James Version Gift and Award Bible, Zondervan, 2011. (Any edition can be used, but only use this version or translation, for it is the one which has influenced English literature the most). Students wishing a version in modern English should use The New English Bible. However, quotations ought to be from the King James.

Recommended

1. The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, 5th Canadian Edition with Updated MyCanadianCompLab, Jane E. Aaron and Aimée Morrison, Pearson Education, 2017.

• I would strongly urge students to make good use of either this text or a reputable grammar handbook, as well as the additional resource material I have posted in the Essay Assignment section, as you prepare each assignment.
• You would find it helpful to have an anthology of English literature, but we do not require it. The course author will often quote short selections from English literature.

For textbook ordering information, please contact the Waterloo Bookstore.

For your convenience, you can compile a list of required and optional course materials through BookLook using your Quest userID and password. If you are having difficulties ordering online and wish to call the Waterloo Bookstore, their phone number is +1 519 888 4673 or toll-free at +1 866 330 7933. Please be aware that textbook orders CANNOT be taken over the phone.

Resources

Library services for co-op students on work term and distance education students

Grade Breakdown

The following table represents the grade breakdown of this course.

Course Policies

Late Submissions

Late submissions will be assessed a penalty of 3% per day, including weekends. Unless there are extenuating circumstances (in which case documentation will be required), extension requests must be arranged seven (7) days in advance and will be considered (for valid reasons) to a maximum of seven (7) days after the essay deadline. Beyond that seven-day period, compelling (i.e. documented) evidence) will be required to have any late submission (whether by extension or otherwise) accepted for marking.

Intellectual Property

Students should be aware that this course contains the intellectual property of their instructor, TA, and/or the University of Waterloo. Intellectual property includes items such as:

• Lecture content, spoken and written (and any audio/video recording thereof);
• Lecture handouts, presentations, and other materials prepared for the course (e.g., PowerPoint slides);
• Questions or solution sets from various types of assessments (e.g., assignments, quizzes, tests, final exams); and
• Work protected by copyright (e.g., any work authored by the instructor or TA or used by the instructor or TA with permission of the copyright owner).

Course materials and the intellectual property contained therein are used to enhance a student's educational experience. However, sharing this intellectual property without the intellectual property owner's permission is a violation of intellectual property rights. For this reason, it is necessary to ask the instructor, TA and/or the University of Waterloo for permission before uploading and sharing the intellectual property of others online (e.g., to an online repository).

Permission from an instructor, TA or the University is also necessary before sharing the intellectual property of others from completed courses with students taking the same/similar courses in subsequent terms/years. In many cases, instructors might be happy to allow distribution of certain materials. However, doing so without expressed permission is considered a violation of intellectual property rights.

Please alert the instructor if you become aware of intellectual property belonging to others (past or present) circulating, either through the student body or online. The intellectual property rights owner deserves to know (and may have already given their consent).

University Policies

Submission Times

Please be aware that the University of Waterloo is located in the Eastern Time Zone (GMT or UTC-5 during standard time and UTC-4 during daylight saving time) and, as such, the time that your activities and/or assignments are due is based on this zone. If you are outside the Eastern Time Zone and require assistance with converting your time, please try the Ontario, Canada Time Converter.

Accommodation Due to Illness

If your instructor has provided specific procedures for you to follow if you miss assignment due dates, term tests, or a final examination, adhere to those instructions. Otherwise:

MISSED ASSIGNMENTS/TESTS/QUIZZES

Contact the instructor as soon as you realize there will be a problem, and preferably within 48 hours, but no more than 72 hours, have a medical practitioner complete a Verification of Illness Form.

Email a scanned copy of the Verification of Illness Form to your instructor. In your email to the instructor, provide your name, student ID number, and exactly what course activity you missed.

Further information regarding Management of Requests for Accommodation Due to Illness can be found on the Accommodation due to illness page.

MISSED FINAL EXAMINATIONS

If this course has a final exam and if you are unable to write a final examination due to illness, seek medical treatment and have a medical practitioner complete a Verification of Illness Form. Email a scanned copy to the Centre for Extended Learning (CEL) at extendedlearning@uwaterloo.ca within 48 hours of your missed exam. Make sure you include your name, student ID number, and the exam(s) missed. You will be REQUIRED to hand in the original completed form before you write the make-up examination.

After your completed Verification of Illness Form has been received and processed, you will be emailed your alternate exam date and time. This can take up to 2 business days. If you are within 150 km of Waterloo you should be prepared to write in Waterloo on the additional CEL exam dates. If you live outside the 150 km radius, CEL will work with you to make suitable arrangements.

Further information about Examination Accommodation Due to Illness regulations is available in the Undergraduate Calendar.

Academic Integrity

In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. If you have not already completed the online tutorial regarding academic integrity you should do so as soon as possible. Undergraduate students should see the Academic Integrity Tutorial and graduate students should see the Graduate Students and Academic Integrity website.

Proper citations are part of academic integrity. Citations in CEL course materials usually follow CEL style, which is based on APA style. Your course may follow a different style. If you are uncertain which style to use for an assignment, please confirm with your instructor or TA.

For further information on academic integrity, please visit the Office of Academic Integrity.

Discipline

A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid committing an academic offence, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. A student who is unsure whether an action constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about "rules" for group work/collaboration, should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the undergraduate Associate Dean. For information on categories of offences and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71 - Student Discipline. For typical penalties, check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.

Appeals

A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 70 - Student Petitions and Grievances, (other than a petition) or Policy 71 - Student Discipline, may be appealed if there is a ground. A student who believes he/she has a ground for an appeal should refer to Policy 72 - Student Appeals.

Grievance

A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her university life has been unfair or unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a grievance. Read Policy 70 - Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4. When in doubt please be certain to contact the department's administrative assistant who will provide further assistance.

Final Grades

In accordance with Policy 46 - Information Management, Appendix A - Access to and Release of Student Information, the Centre for Extended Learning does not release final examination grades or final course grades to students. Students must go to Quest to see all final grades. Any grades posted in Waterloo LEARN are unofficial.

AccessAbility Services

AccessAbility Services, located in Needles Hall, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodation to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services at the beginning of each academic term and for each course.

Accessibility Statement

The Centre for Extended Learning strives to meet the needs of all our online learners. Our ongoing efforts to become aligned with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) are guided by University of Waterloo accessibility Legislation and policy and the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. The majority of our online courses are currently delivered via the Desire2Learn Learning Environment. Learn more about Desire2Learn’s Accessibility Standards Compliance.

Use of Computing and Network Resources

Please see the Guidelines on Use of Waterloo Computing and Network Resources.

Copyright Information

UWaterloo’s Web Pages

All rights, including copyright, images, slides, audio, and video components, of the content of this course are owned by the course author, unless otherwise stated. These web pages are owned or controlled by the University of Waterloo, Centre for Extended Learning. By accessing the web pages, you agree that you may only download the content for your own personal, non-commercial use. You are not permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt, or change in any way the content of these web pages for any other purpose whatsoever without the prior written permission of the course author and the University of Waterloo, Centre for Extended Learning.

Other Sources

Respect the copyright of others and abide by all copyright notices and regulations when using the computing facilities provided for your course of study by the University of Waterloo. No material on the Internet or World Wide Web may be reproduced or distributed in any material form or in any medium, without permission from copyright holders or their assignees. To support your course of study, the University of Waterloo has provided hypertext links to relevant websites, resources, and services on the web. These resources must be used in accordance with any registration requirements or conditions which may be specified. You must be aware that in providing such hypertext links, the University of Waterloo has not authorized any acts (including reproduction or distribution) which, if undertaken without permission of copyright owners or their assignees, may be infringement of copyright. Permission for such acts can only be granted by copyright owners or their assignees.

If there are any questions about this notice, please contact the University of Waterloo, Centre for Extended Learning, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 or extendedlearning@uwaterloo.ca.

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