200B S19 Selinger

ENGL 200B

Course Schedule

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details.

Week

Lectures and Notes

Readings (All poems can be found online)

Activities and Assignments

End / Due Date

Weight (%)

Title

Week 1

The Canon and Romanticism

Optional: "Whose Language?" (PDF)

Groups for Group Discussions will be created by Technical Support

Check after Friday,
May 10, 2019 at
4:30 PM
 

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 1

 

Ungraded

Week 2

Romanticism- William Blake

William Blake, “Holy Thursday" (PDF)

Group Discussion

Friday, May 17,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

William Blake, “Nurse’s Song” (PDF)
William Blake, “The Divine Image”
(PDF)

William Blake,“The Human Abstract”

William Blake, “The Lamb”

William Blake,“The Tyger”

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 2

 

Ungraded

Week 3

Romanticism- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth: excerpt from
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (PDF)

Group Discussion

Friday, May 24,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

William Wordsworth: “We are Seven”

William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Eolian Harp”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Dejection: An Ode”, stanzas 3 & 4

William Wordsworth: “Nutting”

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 3

 

Ungraded

Week 4

Romanticism- Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3, stanzas 1, 2, 5- 7, 17, 28, 36, 72, 89, 92-97, and 111-118

Group Discussion

Friday, May 31,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Sky-Lark”

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 4

 

Ungraded

Week 5

Romanticism- Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Group Discussion

Friday, June 7, 2019
at 11:55 PM

1%

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 5

 

Ungraded

Week 6

Romanticism- John Keats

John Keats: “The Eve of St. Agnes”

Online Midterm Test

Test available:
Monday, June 10,
2019 at 8:00 PM
until Wednesday,
June 12, 2019 at
8:00 PM

20%

John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Felicia Hemans: “Casabianca” (PDF)

Group Discussion

Friday, June 14,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 6

 

Ungraded

Week 7

Victorian Period- Tennyson, Rossetti, Browning, and Barrett Browning

Alfred Lord Tennyson: “Ulysses”

Group Discussion

Friday, June 21,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

Robert Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover”

Robert Browning: “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets 13 and 28 from Sonnets from the Portuguese (PDF)

Christina Rossetti: “In an Artist’s Studio”

Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 7

 

Ungraded

Week 8

VictorianPeriod-CharlesDickens Part1

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations,
beginning to Vol. II.10/Chapter 29

Group Discussion

Friday, June 28,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 8

 

Ungraded

Week 9

Victorian Period- Charles Dickens Part 2 and Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”

Group Discussion

Friday, July 5, 2019
at 11:55 PM

1%

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
to the end

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 9

 

Ungraded

Week 10

Modernism- Brooke, Owen, Hardy, Eliot, and Woolf

Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier” (PDF)

Group Discussion

Friday, July 12,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

Wilfrid Owen: “Dulce et Decorum Est” (PDF)

Thomas Hardy: “Hap”

Thomas Hardy: “The Darkling Thrush”

T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

T.S. Eliot: “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Chapter 3 (PDF)

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 10

 

Ungraded

Week 11

Modernism- Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Essay Assignment Due

Wednesday, July
17, 2019 at 11:55
PM

30%

Group Discussion

Friday, July 19,
2019 at 11:55 PM

1%

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 11

 

Ungraded

Week 12

Modernism- William Butler Yeats and W. H. Auden

William Butler Yeats: “No Second Troy”

Self-Assessment Quiz Week 12

 

Ungraded

William Butler Yeats: “The Second Coming”

William Butler Yeats: “Leda and the Swan”

William Butler Yeats: “Sailing to Byzantium”

W.H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

Final  Examination

      

40%

Final Examination Arrangements and Schedule

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    2019
    . This must be done each term.
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Official Grades and Course Access

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Contact Information

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Discussions

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Who and Why Contact Details

Instructor

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Questions of a personal nature can be directed to your instructor.

Instructor: Megan Selinger

megan.selinger@uwaterloo.ca

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Course Description and Objectives

Description

This course follows in sequence from ENGL 200A: Survey of British Literature 1 and introduces students to the next three principal historical periods of British literature dating from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century: the Romantic, the Victorian, and the Modern. Although you do not have to take ENGL 200A before ENGL 200B, you may find certain elements in the course more easy to understand if you have already taken the previous course.

Students will learn to recognize some of the characteristic forms and interests of these three periods, and also to trace patterns of influence and ideas that link the periods together. They will learn to read with close attention to detail and to analyse how meaning is created in language. In addition, the course will introduce students to some of the major forms of literature (e.g. the lyric, the dramatic monologue, the Bildungsroman). Students will be expected to demonstrate their grasp of this knowledge by completing all course assignments; written assignments are to be thoughtful, clear, well-reasoned, and well-written. 

This online course was developed from live lectures recorded on-campus with instructional design and multimedia development support provided by the Centre for Extended Learning.

About the Course Author

Course Author — Kate Lawson

Educational Background

Kate Lawson completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Toronto in 1988. She came to the University of Waterloo in 2002, and had previously taught at the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and Wilfrid Laurier University.

Current Research

Research interests focus on Victorian literature and culture. She has co-authored a book entitled The Marked Body: Representations of Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Literature and edited a novel by Charlotte Bronte, Villette, for Broadview Press.

Philosophy of Teaching

Professor Lawson hopes that ENGL 200B will introduce students to the richness and variety of British literature written in the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. The poetry and prose we study together should prepare students for upper-level ENGL courses in these areas, and should complement the material studied in other ENGL courses — both literary and rhetorical. More generally, the course introduces students to major authors that are of interest in all humanities disciplines. 

Materials and Resources

Textbooks Required:

  1. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Third Edition. Ed. E.L. MacDonald and Kathleen Scherf, 2012 (Broadview)
  2. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Ed. Graham Law and Adrian J. Pinnington, 1998 (Broadview)
  3. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Ed. John G. Peters, 2018 (Broadview)

All poems can be found online, as well as in .PDF's on weekly lecture pages and the Course Schedule.

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Resources

  • UW Online Reference Shelf
    • Style Guides
    • Writing Assistance
  • 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.

Activities and Assignments Weight (%)
Self-Assessment Quizzes Ungraded
Group Discussions 10%
Online Midterm Test 20%
Essay Assignment 30%
Final Examination 40%

Course Policies

Late Essay Submission

Late essays will be penalized 5% the first day and 2% every successive day after the due date. Please be sure to submit your essays on time.

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

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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, 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.

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