! Detailed Schedule (updated often)

! Course Evaluation: Because this is a new course and will be rigorously reviewed at the end of the semester, it's very important that you give feedback on the course:

• Online basic statistics at http://blackboard.it.chula.ac.th by September 20, 2009. Here are directions on how to evaluate the course online.

• Paper open response. Tell us what you liked and disliked about the course, what we can do to improve it. If you don't have the paper forms for this, please stop by the Department office and get them. Thank you very much! There are two forms available:

  • Regular course review form

  • New course review form

• Alternatively, I have a more detailed questionnaire for you to use, categorized into different aspects of the course. Your comments on this would be very helpful because they will give me more specific information on your impressions. You can get copies from my office desk (BRK 1106.1) or download here. Thanks for the feedback!

! For Wednesday, September 15, 2009 (Literary Readings) we will be meeting in BRK 303. Potluck refreshments will be hosted by instructors and students of 2202234. BYOB (bring your own beverage). On the menu: donuts, chicken sandwiches, chocolate. Anybody want to bring Williams's plums or autumn's bounty?

Readers:

• Chanikarn Tangnoi

• Kanyanun Sunglaw

• Jidapa Loryuenyong

• Korapim Wuttiwong

• Chayada Chotimongkol

• Chayapim Warashinakom

• Nuan Bunnag

• Tipsuda Chaichana

Readers, don't forget to prepare a little introduction to your piece. Why have you chosen this? What is so interesting about it?

Class Time: M 10–12, W 8–9

Required Texts

• Coursebook

• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)

• Vince LiCata and Ping Chong, Cocktail (2009)

• M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 9th ed. (2009) [Available at CU Book Center, Siam Square and Sala Prakiaw branches]

Detailed Schedule (updated often)

Syllabus (Word file; updated)

Requirements and Expectations

• Reading Responses: Aside from occasional writing of other kinds, reading responses are useful exercises that attempt to explain, discuss or comment on a question that you pose about the reading. No more than one page double-spaced is expected per response but it should be well thought out. Five are required but you may write more if you wish. See samples.

• Attendance and Participation: Discussion of the texts will be a big part of this class and students are encouraged to express their opinions, share observations and ask questions. Come prepared to discuss the reading material.

• There will be a midterm, a final exam, and a final paper.

• Klarer, Mario.  An Introduction to Literary Studies.  2nd ed.  London: Routledge, 2004. (CL  820.9 K63I)

• Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren.  Understanding Fiction.  3rd ed.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. (library has 2nd ed.)

• Undergraduate Guide for Studying Literature (How well do you understand what you have read?, keeping a reading journal, critical terms for discussing literature, guidelines for writing essays, what the grade on your essay means, what to do with your marked essay, marking symbols and abbreviations; also has downloadable pdf file)

• Literary Resources on the Net

• What Is Plagiarism? (friendly explanation of plagiarism with examples from Georgetown University; make sure you read the entire article; you  will be severely penalized for plagiarism in this course)

• The UVic Writer's Guide (well-organized, easy to follow guide with examples)

• The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab, includes the writing process, grammar and mechanics, literary analysis and criticism, writing about poetry)

• How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find

• Basic Steps in Writing a Literature Paper

• Citation Styles Handbook: MLA

• MLA Style FAQ

• Paper Guidelines 1 and 2

• Literary Criticism: Principles

• Model Criticism (some essays by F. R. Leavis; a couple of obsolete links)

• English Help

• Key to Correction Marks

• Hay Festival

• Poetry World

• Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry (video clips; Feb. 4, 2009; You might enjoy the play with sound, for example, in "Velimir Khlebnikov's Word Transformations")

• Life and Poetry

• East of the Web

• Drama Glossary (see also Drama Glossary, Terms for Discussing Drama, Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms, Glossary of Basic Literary Terms)

• The Web Concordances and Workbooks

• Poets on Poets (audio clips of poets reading the work of other poets, sometimes with commentary)

• Lannan Audio Archives