ENGL 2320: British Literature from 1700
Final Course Project Overview

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For your final project in the class, I want you to explore, examine, and synthesize a particular “story” you want to tell about some aspect of your study and then present that story in a creative, but critical, way.
You will use the Portfolio feature in <emma> to collect and share your stories. This means that you can incorporate text, images, audio, and video into your work as you see fit. The final project must have the following components:

• A brief, “dust-jacket” overview of the project which will serve to introduce and connect it
• 1 large or 2-3 smaller critical treatments of primary source materials
• Other elements that help to tell the story; these can take many forms including:
  • your own “edition” of a primary text which draws out/points to the themes/story you are illustrating
  • visual images, collages, or analysis of visual texts which relate
  • audio or video performances which support the story
  • other things I haven't even begun to think about...surprise me.

Schedule of Activities:

Project Proposal: You will submit a 1 page single-spaced project proposal to me by November 5. Submit this proposal on <emma> under “Final Project Preparation” Stage: “Pre-Write” and bring a printed copy of the proposal to class as well. The proposal should include: a rough outline of the story you plan to tell, a description of the interest you have in the story, and a preliminary outline of the project's components as you conceive them.

Project Bibliography: You will submit an annotated bibliography of all citable elements of the project (critical resources you access, primary texts you are using, etc.) by November 19. Submit the bibliography on <emma> under “Final Project Preparation” Stage: “Draft 1” and bring a printed copy of the bibliography to class as well. The bibliography should adhere to MLA guidelines.

Project Presentation: You will present your project to the class between December 3-5; projects must be up and all parts visible, operational, and as darn near complete/perfect as possible by start of class December 3. The project will be presented on the <emma> Portfolio tool; instruction in use will be given in class.

Final Project Submission: Your final submission will be due Dec. 7.

ENGL 3050: Introduction to Poetry

Reading List

An Introduction to Poetry, Kennedy/Gioia, 11th ed. (Pearson Longman)

Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings , New Riverside Edition

Dictionary of Poetic Terms

An MLA style manual

One outside volume of poetry

Sample Assignment: Collection Review

Choose one of the following collections:

• Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination
• Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon
• Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
• Thomas Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats

Your assignment is to read your collection and write a review of it. Potential areas of discussion may include thematic concerns, relationship to current events, and aesthetic “judgment”. Individual poems should receive special attention in so far as discussing them advances your review. I expect that you will interact with at least 5 of the poems with some degree of specificity (i.e., excerpts of the poems as objects of close scrutiny).

A good idea is to begin with a direction; is your review favorable or unfavorable? If favorable, what works and where may there be weaknesses? If unfavorable, why and what might be redeeming? While you certainly should go beyond a simple assessment on this level, it's good to start off knowing how you feel about the volume you've chosen.

ENGL 1102: First Year Composition

Reading List

What Happens in Literature (WHL), Rosenheim

50 Great Short Stories (50) , Crane

The Hudson Book of Poetry (HBP)

The Tempest (TT) , Shakespeare

Candide and Other Stories (C) , Voltaire

Oleanna (O) , Mamet

The New St. Martin 's Handbook (NSMH) , Lunsford & Connors

Freshman English at The University of Georgia 2004-2005

A good collegiate dictionary and thesaurus

Sample Assignment: Paper Topic

Paper Three will be focused on your reading of The Tempest. You must choose one of the following topics.

• Write an analysis of the play, arguing for the importance and/or meaning of a particular relationship or theme you have been tracing through the play. Your thesis should be arguable; it should have a topic/comment.
• In the 1940's, W.H. Auden wrote a poetic continuation of The Tempest called The Sea and The Mirror. In the Course Materials section of the <emma™> website, you will find an excerpt from the first part of this text; write a paper discussing this excerpt as a response to the play. Since this part is a "discussion" between Ariel and Prospero as Prospero prepares to leave the island, a productive place to begin is with Prospero's character in the play and the correspondences between Shakespeare's and Auden's characterization.