English 21
English 101
English 211
 

English 21: Fundamentals of English
 
Instructor: Karin Garlepp Burns
Office: Faculty Office 2507
Phone: 719-6401, ext. 324

Prerequisites: English 20 or English 87 with C or better, or equivalent skills as demonstrated by a satisfactory score on the English Placement test, or test scores or a prerequisite course from another college.

Course Description:  English 21 emphasizes improvement of written English, especially sentences and paragraphs.  It reinforces basic communication skills, including punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure.  It will help you develop the ability to write grammatically, read analytically, and think logically through various quizzes, exercises, and short essays based on assigned readings.  This course serves as a prerequisite for English 28.

Required Texts:
-- Crosscurrents. Janet Madden and Sara Blake
-- Basic English Brushup.  R. Kent Smith and Carole Mohr
-- College dictionary  (such as Websters, American Heritage)
-- 8 bluebooks (for journals and exams)

Course Requirements:
Paragraph exam  (10%)  In-class
Essay #1   (10%) Take-home
Essay #2   (10%) Take-home
Essay #3   (15%)  In-class
Essay #4   (15%)  In-class
Final Essay Exam  (30%)  In-class
Miscellaneous   (10%)

Miscellaneous elements include 1) journals: put your journal responses in a separate bluebook to be collected for credit at each journal check. I assign journals in class as they come up;
2) in-class exercises; and 3) grammar tests: whenever the chapter is due, be ready to take the tests by following the assignment schedule.

Course Policies: (all these policies affect your final course grade--read them carefully)

1) Attendance: More than 5 absences means you're dropped from the class.  Missing and being late to class will lower your class performance on essays, grammar tests, and exercises, none of which may be made up. Courtesy will be expected at all times: no disruptive behavior will be tolerated, such as talking while others talk, leaving class without consulting me beforehand, being late, etc.

2) Late take-home essays: Late essays get lowered one letter grade, and I only accept late essays one class meeting after the due date; after that, you receive an F.

3) Late in-class essays: If you don't take the essay on the assigned date, you receive an F.

4) Plagiarism:  Plagiarism is the copying or borrowing someone else's work, ideas or words as your own.  Once I discover a student has plagiarized, I fail that student in the entire course.

Tutoring:  I recommend that everyone to seek tutoring at the Writing Lab and/or the Learning Center as soon as the semester begins.
 

Assignments

All reading and writing assignments are due on dates given and are listed by assigned authors.  In-class themes and activities are given in brackets. BEB stands for Basic English Brushup, the grammar workbook.
Week 1
[Course introduction]
Diagnostic test and paragraph
BEB ch. 1 [About paragraphing]

Week 2
   BEB ch. 2 [More on paragraphing]
   [Practice paragraphs]
   BEB ch. 3; Paragraph Exam
Week 3
   Crosscurrents (1-12)
   BEB ch. 19 [spelling]
   Crosscurrents (13-26); BEB ch. 20 [homonyms]
Week 4
   [How to write an essay]
   Crosscurrents (26-46)
Week 5
   "Advertising" (193); Schrank (195)
   Focus Article (handout); BEB ch. 4 [subjects & verbs]
   "Study Sheet for Ad Analysis" (250)
Week 6
   BEB ch. 7 [more on verbs]; Rough Draft & Journal Check 1 due
   "Television" (257); BEB ch. 8 [subject-verb agreement]
   Hall (294)
Week 7
   Essay #1 due [Song Analysis]
   BEB ch. 9 [sentence types]; Wilson (305)
   Cline (286)
Week 8
   BEB ch. 10 [sentence fragments]; "That Clauses" (handout)
   Rhodes (270)
   Rough Draft & Journal Check 2 due
Week 9
   BEB ch. 11[run-ons & comma splices]; Cross (275)
   Essay #2 due: "Autobiography" 949)
   Hughes (51)
Week 10
   BEB ch. 13 [pronoun problems]; Hoffman (56)
   Wong (68)
   Williams (73)
Week 11
   BEB ch. 15 [misplaced & dangling modifiers]; Aqueros (73)
   [On taking in class essay exams]
   In-class Essay #3. Bluebook required.
Week 12
   Journal Check 3; BEB ch. 21 [capital letters]; "Heroes" (93)
   Fortino (93)
   Homans (133)
Week 13
   The Odyssey (film)--mandatory attendance for Essay #4
   The Odyssey (cont'd)--mandatory attendance for Essay #4
Week 14
   Film discussion
   In-class Essay #4. Bluebook required.
   Feiffer (126)
Week 15
   BEB ch. 22 [commas]
   BEB ch. 23 [apostrophes]; Bjorklund (102)
Week 16
   BEB ch. 24 [quotation marks]
   Beals (106)
   Real heroes vs. imaginary heroes debate
Week 17
   Comprehensive Grammar Exam
   [Preparing for the final exam]

Final Exam: Bluebook required.
 
 
 
 
 
English 101: College Reading and Composition
 

 
Instructor: Karin Garlepp Burns  Phone: 719-6401, ext. 324
Office: English Faculty Office 2507  E-mail: kerryburns@earthlink.net
 

Prerequisites
English 28 with a grade of "C," or equivalent skills as shown by a satisfactory score on the English
 Placement test, test scores from another college, or a prerequisite course at another college.

Course Description
English 101 is a writing workshop created to sharpen your critical thinking, reading, and writing
 skills.  It is a discussion-based course designed to empower you with the necessary skills and strategies for writing academic essays. We'll be reading and discussing controversial texts from various fields and points of view, and you'll be writing several essays and one research paper based on these readings.  While there will be some review of grammar, the focus of this course will be on structuring a successful college-level essay and on the critical reading required as a preparation for writing.   This semester we'll explore dreams in relation to writing.

Required Texts and Materials
- Ford, Marjorie & Jon. Dreams and Inward Journeys. 3rd edition.
- Hacker, Diana.  A Writer's Handbook. 3rd edition.
- College dictionary (such as American Heritage, Random House, Webster's)
- 5 large bluebooks (for journal entries & exams; available at bookstore)

Course Requirements
Essay #1 (10%); Essay #2 (10%); Essay #3 (10%); Essay #4 (10%); Research paper (30%--outline
required); Final essay exam (20%); Miscellaneous (10%--includes peer editing, quizzes, exercises, and journal entries--written responses designed to stimulate critical thinking on the readings and guide our discussions. Journals will be collected regularly and must be placed in a bluebook.)

Attendance
Missing or being late to class will lower your performance on in-class participation, exercises, and
 quizzes, all of which may not be made up later.  More than five absences without legitimate excuses means you will be dropped from the class without notice.

Late Policy
1) Late papers are lowered one letter grade, 2) I only accept late papers one class meeting after the
 due date--after that, they lapse to an "F."  3) I don't accept late research papers.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of someone else's ideas or words as your own without acknowledgement.  If
 you not sure you are documenting all sources properly, consult me. Plagiarism results in failure of the entire course, not simply the paper plagiarized.

Tutoring
This course demands use of proper grammar but will only devote a minimal amount of time
reviewing it.  Therefore, I urge those needing additional help to seek tutoring from these resources, as soon as the term begins: 1) The Writing Lab;  2) The Learning Center; and/or 3) EOP&S.

Assignments

All reading and writing assignments are due on dates given.  In-class themes and activities are given in brackets. Journal assignments are not included below; they are assigned in class as we proceed.
Week 1
Course introduction; Diagnostic essay
Ch. 1:  The Writing Process and Self-Discovery (1); Discovering Ourselves in Writing (8);
[Prewriting exercise]; Hughes (10); Stafford (12)
Week 2
King (25); Hacker C1-3; [On academic essays]
Roethke (45);  Levertov (86) [On poetic experiences]
Ch.2: Responding to Reading through Writing (56); Discovering Ourselves in Reading (59); Wright (67)
Week 3
Borges (82) [Postmodern ponderings]
Elbow (15); Coleridge (89)
Draft #1 due;  Hacker P6, M1, D2A [About citations]
Week 4
Journal Check #1; Hacker C4; [Peer sharing; Draft comments]
Bowen (76); Hacker P1, P2 [Comma quiz]
Week 5
Essay #1 due; [On comparison & contrast]
Ch. 4: Comparing & Contrasting: Strategies for Thinking & Writing (161);
Dreams, Myths, & Fairy Tales (165)
Atwood (72);  [The facts about myths]
Week 6
Campbell (170); Hacker E4 & G1 [Agreement quiz]
Portfolio of Creation Myths (191)
Bettelheim (199); Hacker G5, P3 [Fragment quiz]
Week 7
Brothers Grimm (205); Algonquin Cinderella (210)
Draft #2 due; Hacker G6 [Comma splice quiz; Cinderella clips]
Journal Check #2 due; [Peer sharing]
Week 8
Essay #2 due; [About the research paper]
Ch. 5: Definition: Word Boundaries of the Self (220); Nightmares & Obsessions (223);
Merwin (225); Galvin & Hartmann (228) [Analyzing Fuseli's "The Nightmare"]
Week 9
Shelley (237) [Frankenstein video]
Styron (245) [Debating divine madness]
Gilman (250); [Usage quiz]
Week 10
Poe (273) ["Tell-Tale Heart" video]
Journal Check #3 due; [Peer sharing]
Essay #3 due; [On dialogic arguments]
Week 11
Ch. 7: Argument and Dialogue (356); The Double/The Other (361); Cofer (363)
Von Franz (367) [Speculations on our shadows]
Andersen (371) [More speculations...]
Week 12
Steele (396) [Revising racism]
Peavey (407); [Devil's advocate exercise]
Journal Check #4 due; [Peer Sharing]
Week 13
Essay #4 due; [On locating research sources]
Ch. 8: Research Writing (422); Society's Dreams (426); Dunn (428)
Week 14
Library Tour: mandatory attendance
Pratkanis & Aronson (430); Hacker R2-3 [Avoiding plagiarism, etc.]
Research Proposal due; [Structuring longer arguments]
Week 15
Jen (468); Hacker M1-3 [Quiz on MLA documentation]
Erdrich (465); Alexie (handout on "Smoking Signal" movie)
Week 16
Eco (473) [Deconstructing Disneyland]
Ch. 9: Creativity, Problem Solving and Synthesis (492); Dreams of Vision & Prophecy (496); Blake (498)
King (513) ["I Have a Dream" video]
Week 17
Journal Check #5 due; Forster (528); Kim (534)
Research Paper due; [On the final exam]

Final Exam: Bluebook required.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ENGLISH 211: Studies in Fiction
(UC:CSU) (CAN Engl 18)
Spring 1998
 

Instructor: Karin Garlepp Burns    Email: kerryburns@earthlink.net
Office: 2507 Faculty Office     Mailbox: Information Desk,
Phone: 719-6401, ext. 324            Administration Bldg.
 

Course Description: English 211 studies classic novels and stories from the Western tradition.  It covers the works individually, but also in a way that explores the flowering and development of fiction as a distinct genre.  The class will explore various aspects of fiction as fiction, so students will also learn vocabulary and concepts relating to this particular literary genre.

Course Prerequisites: English 101 is required (passed with at least at C) and English 102 is highly recommended.  If you have not taken and passed 102, I suggest you see me to optimize your performance in this class, and I urge you to buy and follow the recommended guide on writing about literature.  To ensure that all students have fulfilled the prerequisite, proof of passing English 101 or its equivalent must be provided in the first week of class.

Course Requirements:  Attendance is mandatory.  There will be overnight assignments as well as quizzes on various issues and procedures.  Read the assigned literature attentively before every class meeting to ensure your understanding of the lectures and facilitate your participation in the discussions.

Grades will be broken down as follows:  essay #1 (5 pages) - 15%; midterm exam (multiple choice/short answer) - 15%; essay #2 (7 pages) - 25%; final exam (short answer/essay) - 30%; and miscellaneous (homework, quizzes, class participation, and attendance) - 15%.

Required Texts:

Ann Charters. The Story and Its Writer.  4th edition
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
Charlotte Bronte.  Jane Eyre.
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes from Underground.
Kate Chopin.  The Awakening.

Recommended Texts & Materials:

Barnet, Sylvan.  A Short Guide to Writing about Literature.  6th edition.

Some important warnings and policies:

1) Be aware of the English department policy on plagiarism, i.e., using someone else's words or ideas or work as your own without explicit acknowledgement.  Plagiarism means you fail the entire course (not just the paper plagiarized).

2) I accept late essays one period after the due date only.  Thereafter, it becomes an "F."

3) Any late essays will be lowered one full grade.  If you know in advance of schedule conflicts which may require you to miss class or to hand a paper in late, discuss it with me beforehand.

4) All essays must follow the MLA style in form and documentation.  See Barnet Section 10-11.
 Assignments

Reading and assignments are due on the dates below.  You will be responsible for all of this material in the exams.

Week 1
T  Course introduction: an overview of fiction
Th  From tale to fiction: fables, folktales, fairy tales, chivalric romances, travelogues
Week 2
Tu  The epic and episodic tale: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Th  Robinson Crusoe
Week 3
Tu  Robinson Crusoe
Th  Robinson Crusoe
Week 4
Tu  The birth of the short story: Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Th  Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"; commentary (1506)
Week 5
Tu  The Bildungsroman and the gothic tradition: Bronte, Jane Eyre
Th  Bronte, Jane Eyre
Week 6
Tu  Bronte, Jane Eyre
Th  Bronte, Jane Eyre
Week 7
Tu  Essay #1 due; The realist tradition
Th  de Maupassant, "The String"
Week 8
Tu  Chekhov, "The Lady with the Pet Dog"
Th  Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Week 9
Tu  Dostoesvky, Notes from Underground
Th  Midterm Exam: bring bluebook
Week 10
Tu  The woman question: Chopin, The Awakening
Th  Chopin, The Awakening
Week 11
Tu  Fiction of consciousness: James, "The Beast in the Jungle"
Th  The modernist crisis: Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Week 12
Tu  Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Th  African-American fiction: Wright, "The Man who Was almost a Man"
Week 13
Tu  Modernist re-explorations of the fantastic: Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Th  Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Week 14
Tu  Modernist experiments: Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants"; Carver, "What We Talk about   when We Talk about Love"
Th  More experiments: Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"

Week 15
Tu  Postmodernism: Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths"

Th  Essay #2 due; Magical realism: Marquez, "A very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Week 16
Tu  Urban American fiction: Bambara, "The Lesson"

Th  Hyphenated-American fiction: Tan, "Two Kinds"
Week 17
Tu  Fiction on fiction: Moore, "How to Become a Writer"; Wrap-up

Final Exam--Modern Period:  See Schedule of Classes for date.  Bluebook required