OFFICE: 222 COAS
HOURS: 8:00-9:00 MWF and 8:00-9:10 TR.
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EMAIL ADDRESS: mdreed@utpa.edu

TEXTS:
Kirszner & Mandell, Literature : reading, reacting and writing, 8th edition.

Your text is available at the University Bookstore and The Poet's Corner.

CLASS POLICIES
Students must make an effort to attend all classes. More than two unexcused absences will result in a drop fail. I will consider appropriate excuses; among appropriate excuses are terroist attack or hurricane. Note: the terrorist attack must be in our area.

Students will be on time for the start of the class; this means in your seats and ready to begin.

All the work must be completed by the date it is on the syllabus. You can expect a quiz from time to time, and if quizzes are given, they will count 10% of your final grade.

All the exams will be essay exams, and each will count 33.33% of your final grade unless we have quizzes; then, each exam will count 30% of your final grade. Students are expected to write as well as 1301 students. All exams will be written in bluebooks. The bluebooks must be turned in before the exam but not on the exam day. Students turning in bluebooks the day of the exam will not be allowed to take the exam.

All cellular phones and other telephonic devices will be turned off before the student enters class. No texting is allowed. If your phone sounds during an exam, you will receive an F for the exam

If a student wishes to drop the class, he/she must do so before or on April 24th; otherwise, he/she will receive and F for the course.

Disabilities Information
If you have a documented disability which will make it difficult for you to carry out the work as I have outlined and/or you need special accomodations/assistance because of the disability, please contact the Office of Services
for Persons with Disabilities (OSPD). Emilia Ramirez-Schunior Hall, Room 1.101 immediately.  Appropriate arrangements/accomadodations can be arranged.

Verification of disabilites and processing of special services required, such as notetakers, extended time, separate
accomodations for testing, will be determined by OSPD.  Please do not assume adjustments/accommodations are impossible.  Consult with the Coordinator, OSPD at extension 7005.

State/Institutional Goals: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Exemplary Objectives for Humanities and Performing Arts:
1. To demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
2. To understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
3. To respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
4. To engage in the creative process or interpretive performance and comprehend the physical and intellectual demands required of the author or visual or performing artist.
5. To articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
6. To develop an appreciation for the aesthetic principles that guide or govern the humanities and arts.
7. To demonstrate knowledge of the influence of literature, philosophy, and/or the arts on intercultural experiences.

Departmental Goals: Student Learning Outcomes for English (SLO's)
SLO 1-Students will be able to interpret and analyze a text using different approaches from literary, rhetorical and/or linguistic theories.
SLO 2-Students in certification tracks will demonstrate knowledge of national and state requirements and accepted applications in teaching English Language Arts and Reading
SLO 3-Recent graduates who majored in English will demonstrate satisfaction with the programs in the English Department.
SLO 4—Students will be able to use discipline-appropriate technology applications (such as library databases, computer applications, Internet research, non-print media, multi-media applications, desktop publishing, etc.) in preparation and presentation of course projects.

English Department Goals for Sophomore English:
In sophomore literature courses, students will
1. amplify reading, writing, and critical thinking skills developed in English 1301 and 1302. (THECB 3; SLO 1, 2, 3)
2. understand and appreciate great writers and great works in imaginative literature in a variety of literary genres and literary periods. (THECB 1; SLO 1, 2, 3)
3. understand the basic principles of literary language and analysis (THECB 4, 6; SLO 1, 2, 3)
4. understand that literary study may be directed by a variety of analytical approaches, including but not limited to historical, psychological, biographical, social, and feminist approaches; (THECB 2, 5, 7; SLO 1, 3)
5. understand the influence of literature on intercultural understanding and on appreciation of the individual's culture (THECB 7; SLO 1, 2, 3)
6. develop an aesthetic appreciation of literature (THECB 5, 6; SLO 1, 3)

Instructor's Course Objectives:
1. to introduce students to great writers and great works in imaginative literature (THECB 1, 7; SLO 1,2, 3)
2. to develop students' literary tastes and their aesthetic pleasure in reading (THECB 6; SLO 1, 2, 3)
3. to introduce students to literary studies and the specialized terminology of these studies (THECB 1, 2, 3, 5, 7; SLO 1, 2, 3)
4. to develop critical thinking and critical reading skills (THECB 3, 4; SLO 1, 2, 3)
5. to develop students' ability to analyze texts, generalize, and think abstractly (THECB 4, 5; SLO 1, 2, 3)
6. to further improve writing competencies acquired in English 1301 and 1302 (THECB 3, 4, 5; SLO 1, 2, 3)
7. to develop oral communication skills (THECB 3, 4, 5; SLO 1, 2, 3)

Evaluations
“Mandatory Course Evaluations period (April 9 – April 30): Students are required to complete an ONLINE evaluation of this course, accessed through your UTPA account
( https://my.utpa.edu/ ); you will be contacted through email with further instructions. The evaluation window closes at 11:59 pm on April 30th, the last day of spring classes. Students who complete their evaluations by April 30 th will have priority access to their grades. ”

ENG 2300 Introduction to Literature [3-0]
An introduction to literary genres, with special emphasison the short story, novel or novella, drama and poetry. Requires careful reading and the writing of critical essays about individual works. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of “C” in six hours of required freshman English.

JANUARY
14 Introduction
16 Introduction

THE SHORT STORY
21The Secret Lion, Alberto Alvaro Rios, 201
23 The Secret Lion

28 Rose For Emily, William Faulkner, 244
33Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway, 145

FEBRUARY
04 The Story of an Hour, 223
06 The Storm, Kate Chopin, 300

11 Two Kinds, Amy Tan, 687
13 Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison, 319

18 Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne, 486
20 Young Goodman Brown

25 The Lottery, Shirely Jackson, 457
27 A & P, John Updike, 259, Sherman Alexiw This is what It means to say Phoenix, Arizona, 310 and Sandra Cisneros, Pilon, 53.

MARCH
04 FIRST EXAMINATION

POETRY
06 Buffalo Bill'sand Next to of course god america i, e. e. cummings, 1067 and 1068, I'm nobody! Who are you?, The Soul selects her own Society, and Success is Counted Sweetest, Dickinson, 742, 1075, and 1075, Song, John Donne, 1079, We Wear the Mask, Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1080.

11 Spring Break
13 Spring Break

18Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden, 965, My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory, Judith Ortoz Cofer, 968, My Papa's Waltz, Theodore Roethke, 965.
20 Birches, 976, and The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost, 885, Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress, 854, Why I Went to College, Martin Espada, 913.

25 Syliva Plath, Daddy, 850.
27To My Dear and Loving Husband and Author to Her Book, Anne Bradstreet, 850 and 1053, Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen, 826.

April
01 W. H. Auden, Musee de Beaux Arts, 957, What Were They Like?, Denise Levertov, 978, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Willaim Butler Yeats, 1155 and The End and the Beginning, Wislawa Szymborska, 991.
03 We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks, 801, Yet Do I Marvel, Countee Cullen 951, Langston Hughes, Negro, 745, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Family Ties, 1046.

08 Harlem, Langston Hughes, 836, Birmingham Sunday, langston Hughes, 1006, Ballad of Birmingham, Dudley Randall,775, To an Athelete Dying Young, A.E. Housman, 807, One day I wrote her nam upon the strand, Edmund Spenser, 804, anyone lived in a pretty how town, e.e. cummings, 805. What Shall I Give My Children, Gwendolyn Brooks, 10 10 803, Nothing Gold Can Stray, Robert Frost, 824.

15A Valediction: Forbidding Mouring, John Donne, 846 Sherman Alixie, Evolution, 768 Walt Whitman, A Noisless Patient Spider, 1148 and Song of Myself (excerpt), 1149.
17 Second Examination

DRAMA

22The Doll House, Ibsen, 1323
24 The Doll House

29 The Doll House
May
03/04 Study Days

08 Final Examinations 8:00-9:45