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Fall 2019                                                                      

ENGL 362 Online                                                                                  

University of Waterloo

Course Schedule

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Final Examination Arrangements and Schedule

Please carefully review the information about final examinations for online courses, including dates, locations, how to make examination arrangements, writing with a proctor, and deadlines.

If you are taking any on-campus courses, you will automatically be scheduled to write your exam on campus.

No action is required.

If you are taking only online courses, do one of the following:

• If your address in QUEST is within 100 km of an examination centre, you must choose an exam centre in Quest by Sunday, September 15, 2019. 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.

Your online course exam schedule will be available in Quest approximately four weeks before your exam date(s). Instructions on how to find your schedule are posted on the Quest Help page.

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

Official Grades and Course Access

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Your access to this course will continue for the duration of the current term. You will not have access to this course once the next term begins.

Contact Information

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Discussions

A General Discussion topic* has also been made available to allow students to communicate with peers in the course. Your instructor may drop in at this discussion topic.

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Course Description and Objectives

Description

This course will focus on Shakespeare's plays written before 1599-1600, excluding Julius Caesar.

The aim of this offering of this course is to examine the development of Shakespeare during the first part of his career as a playwright. His social and political concerns, his use of dramatic dialogue, his use of the theatres in which his company staged his works, his experimentation with various genres (history, tragedy, comedy), and the uses that have been made of Shakespeare (particularly in contemporary theatres) are among the topics that will weave their way through the lectures and discussions. This course aims to help students to develop their critical thinking skills through the analysis of the dynamics of early modern language and theatrical techniques, to broaden their knowledge of relevant research resources, and to improve their ability to articulate their ideas in forms of academic writing.

Learning Outcomes

This online course was developed by Ted McGee, with instructional design and multimedia development support provided by the Centre for Extended Learning. Further media production was provided by Instructional Technologies and Multimedia Services.

About the Course Author and Instructor

Course Instructor — Alysia Kolentsis

I am delighted to return to the University of Waterloo, the place where my academic interests first took shape. My family moved to Waterloo when I was eight so that my mother could attend Renison College, and I have many early memories of the University of Waterloo campus: sitting beside the creek, visiting the Porter library, and even tagging along to a lecture. I was hooked.

As an undergraduate, I enrolled at St. Jerome’s, and was profoundly influenced by my English courses on the main campus as well as across the creek. In particular, the courses that I took with Professor Katherine Acheson, which featured close readings of early modern writers such as Shakespeare and Milton, illuminated the rich possibilities available in the study of early modern literature and culture. At the same time, I nurtured an interest in language and language theory, developed in courses such as linguistics and semiotics. A reading course on Hamlet that combined language theory with literary analysis provided my moment of epiphany, and after completing an MA degree at York University, I arrived at the University of Toronto to pursue graduate work in linguistic approaches to Shakespeare. My dissertation focused on easily overlooked details of Shakespeare’s language to explore how Shakespeare’s speakers situate themselves and negotiate their identities in their language.

My subsequent work as a ​Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University examined interconnections among gender, the language of time, and notions of futurity in Shakespeare’s late plays. Most recently, I have been at work on a project that that considers Shakespeare’s language in the broader cultural and linguistic climate of early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the rapid changes underway in the English language during Shakespeare’s lifetime. Now, back in Waterloo and teaching Shakespeare at St. Jerome’s, I feel that I have truly come home.

Course Author — Ted McGee

Ted McGee is a professor emeritus in the English Department of St. Jerome's College and the University of Waterloo. He regularly taught courses on literature and rebellion, literary criticism, Shakespeare (on the page and the stage), and editing literary texts. The last of these courses developed from his on-going research as an editor of Records of Early English Drama collections, a contributor to the Complete Works of Thomas Middleton, and a collaborator on the New Variorum edition of Othello. He received the University's Distinguished Teacher Award in 2011.

A member of the Board of Governors of The Stratford Shakespeare Festival from 1992 to 1999, he continues to serve on its Education and Archives Committee. Based on his research in the Stratford Festival Archives, he has published articles on productions there that set Shakespeare's plays in Canada, on love at first sight on Stratford's stages, and on Juliet's dresses and the representation of 'true beauty'.

Relevant publications

“Narrative Threads: Juliet's Costumes and their Contexts," Canadian Theatre Review 156 (Fall 2013):12-17.

"Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at the Stratford Festival,” in Shakespeare’s Comedies of Love(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008): 213-27.

“Pocky Queans and Hornèd Knaves: Libelous Poetry and the Circulation of Gender Stereotypes,” in Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Texts, ed. Karen Bamford and Mary Ellen Lamb (London: Ashgate, 2008): 139-51.

“Puritans and Performers in Early Modern Dorset,” Early Theatre 6 (2003): 51-66.

“Shakespeare Canadiens at The Stratford Festival,” in Shakespeare in Canada:‘ a world elsewhere’?, ed. I. Makaryk and D. Brydon (University of Toronto Press, 2002): 141-58.

His current research in the Stratford Festival Archives is on productions of the Merchant of Venice and in the UK on the earliest performance records (and libelous poetry) of Wiltshire and Yorkshire.

Materials and Resources

Textbooks

Required

1. Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1996. PDF file.
2. Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1993. PDF file.
3. Shakespeare, William. Richard III. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1996. PDF file.
4. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1992. PDF file.
5. Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1992. PDF file.
6. Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1996. PDF file.
7. Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square, 1996. PDF file.

Folger Digital Texts versions of the William Shakespeare readings are available for free in PDF form from http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/ under a CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported license.

For textbook ordering information, please contact the W Store | Course Materials + Supplies.

For your convenience, you can compile a list of required and optional course materials

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Resources

Library services for Co-op students on work term and Extended Learning students

Grade Breakdown

The following table represents the grade breakdown of this course.

Course Policies

Penalty for Late Submission

Unless an extension has been granted to the class or to an individual as negotiated with the instructor, late Essay Assignments (those submitted after the third Essay Assignment deadline) will be penalized 2%/weekday. This possible extension applies only to the Essay Assignment, not to the Essay Rehearsal Exercises or the discussion questions.

Department Policies

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 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 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.

Turnitin

Turnitin.com: Text matching software (Turnitin®) may be used to screen assignments in this course. Turnitin® is used to verify that all materials and sources in assignments are documented. Students’ submissions are stored on a U.S. server, therefore students must be given an alternative (e.g., scaffolded assignment or annotated bibliography), if they are concerned about their privacy and/or security. Students will be given due notice, in the first week of the term and/or at the time assignment details are provided, about arrangements and alternatives for the use of Turnitin® in this course.

It is the responsibility of the student to notify the instructor if they, in the first week of term or at the time assignment details are provided, wish to submit the alternate assignment.

Turnitin® at Waterloo

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 and the University of Waterloo, unless otherwise stated. By accessing this course, 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.