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English 2322 DE (HCC Online): British Literature I

Course Calendar: Spring 2016

Professor: Betty J. Proctor, Ph.D.

Course CRN: 91627

Credit: 3 semester hours

Professor’s Contact Information:

E-mail: The REQUIRED method for e-mail for HCC Online students at HCC is within

Eagle Online 2 (Quickmail); your Quickmail message will arrive in my HCC mail

(betty.proctor@hccs.edu). You are expected to have an HCC email account for

reading of Quickmail messages (that will arrive in your HCC email inbox).

Further, you are expected to READ your HCC email messages daily. I will NOT

answer messages sent from ANY OTHER email address. I check my e-mail and

phone messages once a day (but not on holidays).

Telephone (voice mail): 713/718-2086.

Learning Web: go to http://learning.hccs.edu

Course Description for ENGLISH 2322 (British Literature I):

A survey of the development of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the

Eighteenth Century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in

relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a

diverse group of authors and traditions. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 (Composition I)

Core Objectives!

Given the rapid evolution of necessary knowledge and skills and the need to take into account global,

national, state, and local cultures, the core curriculum must ensure that students will develop the

essential knowledge and skills they need to be successful in college, in a career, in their communities,

and in life. Through the Texas Core Curriculum, students will gain a foundation of knowledge of human

cultures and the physical and natural world, develop principles of personal and social responsibility for

living in a diverse world, and advance intellectual and practical skills that are essential for all learning.

Students enrolled in this core curriculum course will complete a research project or case study designed

to cultivate the following core objectives:

o Critical Thinking Skills—to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis,

evaluation and synthesis of information

o Communication Skills—to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas

through written, oral and visual communication

o Personal Responsibility—to include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences

to ethical decision-making

o Teamwork (Composition I, Composition II, and Technical Writing)—to include the ability to

consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose

or goal

o Social Responsibility (Literature Only)—to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and

consequences to ethical decision-making

Student proficiency in Communication Skills will be assessed as a formal written out-of-class essay,

which is at least 3 pages long and which includes an oral presentation component as well as a visual

component. Student proficiency in Critical Thinking will be assessed by a formal out-of-class essay

assignment. Personal, Social Responsibility, and Teamwork will be assessed as part of long unit or

major essay assignment, which will include assigned reading responses, pre-writing activities, multiple

drafts, and group activities (such as peer review or group presentations). Student project grades will

account for at least 5% of the final course grade.

English Program Student Learning Outcomes

(Composition, Literature, Creative Writing, and Technical Writing)

1. Write in appropriate genres using varied rhetorical strategies.

2. Write in appropriate genres to explain and evaluate rhetorical and/or literary strategies

employed in argument, persuasion, and various genres.

3. Analyze various genres of writing for form, method, meaning, and interpretation.

4. Employ research in academic writing styles and use appropriate documentation style.

5. Communicate ideas effectively through discussion.

English Literature Student Learning Outcomes: !

1. Explain and illustrate stylistic characteristics of representative works of major British writers

from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 18th century.

2. Connect representative works of major British writers from the Anglo-Saxon period through the

18th century to human and individual values in historical and social contexts.

3. Demonstrate knowledge of major British writers from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 18th

century.

4. Analyze critical texts of major British writers from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 18th

century.

5. Critique and interpret representative literary works of major British writers from the Anglo-

Saxon period through the 18th century.

*Note that one 3-semester-hour English literature course can satisfy EITHER the Language, Philosophy,

and Culture requirement OR go toward satisfying the Component Area Option requirement.

Eagle Online 2.0 Log-in information:

The link to this system is: http://eo2.hccs.edu Use the latest version of Firefox with this

system.

The log-in for this system is the same ID and password as your HCC Active Directory

(AD) and HCC Student Email username/password. (Note: This username/password is

also used to log-on to computers and printers at the HCC campuses and get online

tutoring assistance).

If you have never used your HCC student email, you must claim your account here

before using it. Select Student Claim Policy from the drop-down menu and then follow

instructions.

You will be required to change the password for this account every 120 days. To do this,

without IT Help Desk support, you will need to set up your challenge

questions/responses. The responses to your challenge questions are stored

securely. Once answered correctly, you will be able to reset your password on your

own.

If you cannot claim your email or cannot reset your password, call the HCC IT Help

Desk at (713) 718-8800, option 1, for AD / Email assistance.

Eagle Online 2 Technical Support:!

For Eagle Online documentation, tutorials (including movies), phone and chat support,

go to the HCC Eagle Online support website.

Phone support: 713-718-2000, options 4, 2, 3 (available 24 x 7)

Here is another link for movies and .PDF files that will help you with the use of

Eagle Online 2.0: http://de.hccs.edu/technical-support/

Browser Issues: Use the latest version of Firefox.

Quickmail within Eagle Online 2:

• To send a message to your professor, click on Compose New Email in the Quickmail

box. Next, select her name from Potential Recipients. Scroll down the page to build

your email, making sure to fill in the Subject line.

• When you receive an email from your professor, it will arrive in your HCC Mail, at

webmail.hccs.edu. Go to this link for more information:

http://www.hccs.edu/district/students/student-e-maileagle-id/

Your HCC Eagle ID e-mail address:!!

Your HCC Eagle ID e-mail address will be the only e-mail address used for official HCC

communication (e.g., financial aid, graduation, regulatory updates, etc.). It is important that

you check this account regularly for important information and communications.

Please go to http://www.hccs.edu/district/students/student-e-maileagle-id/ for information about

your HCCS email account. It is the student’s responsibility to check e-mail DAILY within

Eagle Online as well as the student’s HCC default email address.

REQUIRED TEXT (order online at http://hccs.bn.college.com):

It is extremely important that you have a copy of the book in order to do

well in the course!

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th edition

Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

General Editor, Stephen Greenblatt

edition

Published: February 2012

ISBN 978-0-393-91247-0

Recommended Course Materials:

For this class, you expected to demonstrate knowledge of writing (proper grammar,

punctuation, capitalization, reference to titles, etc.) as taught in the prerequisite for the

course, ENGL 1301. Additionally, you will be expected to employ proper documentation

(MLA 2009) for writings in this course that require the use of research materials. It is

recommended that you obtain a recent handbook to support your work in writing in this

class. Some good choices are Harbrace Essentials, The Little Brown Handbook (12th

ed.), and The Penguin Handbook (4th ed.)--some of which are available in compact or

Kindle editions at www.amazon.com.

Further, there are online sites on grammar, writing, and MLA documentation that you

may consult for information regarding the proper form for writing papers in this class:

• Bedford/St. Martin’s Guide to Research Documentation:

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/

o For format of Works Cited

(http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch08_s1-0011.html),

o creating parenthetical references

(http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch08_s1-0001.html),

o sample paper in MLA format

(http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch08_s1-0014.html)

• Purdue Online Writing Lab: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: http://www.powa.org/index.php

• Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

• Strunk and White’s Elements of Style: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ !

• Grammar Bytes: http://www.chompchomp.com/

• Hacker, Diana. “MLA In Text Citations.” Humanities Documenting Sources.

Research and Documentation Online. 11 Jan. 2006

<http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/intext.html>.

Also, you need a college-level dictionary—NOT a pocket dictionary.

Course Requirements:!

Reader-Response Journal

Poetry Analysis Essay

Oral Report Video with Power Point Presentation

Research Paper

Final Essay Exam

Participation:

Class Participation will reflect the student’s participating professionally—not only logging

in several times per week, but also (1) posting comments in all discussion forums, to

reflect having read required pages in the textbook, (2) reading all files in the course, (3)

submitting all assignments, (4) completing all required tasks, and (5) exhibiting a sincere

effort to learn about all facets of the course (the assigned literary works, backgrounds for

the historical periods, literary analysis, critical thinking, use of research tools, and MLA

documentation). Your professor’s screen in Eagle Online will allow her to track a

student’s participation (such as reading files).

Minimum writing requirement: Students will write a minimum of 5,000 words during

the semester.

Grade Calculation Formula: !

Reader-Response Journal = 25%

Poetry Analysis Essay = 20%

Oral Report Video with Power Point Presentation (based on the Poetry

Analysis) = 5%

Research Paper = 25%

Final Essay Exam = 20%

Participation grade = 5%

Grading Scale:

A (90-100%) Excellent work that demonstrates a clear understanding of the assignment,

has few errors of any kind, and shows exceptional ability to communicate to a specific

audience.

B (80-89%) Above average work that shows understanding of the writing topic,

has few serious errors, and provides good communication with a specific audience.

C (70-79%) Average work that shows understanding of the writing topic, contains few

errors that interfere with adequate communication.

D (60-69%) Below average work that fails to follow the assignment and/or fails to

respond adequately to the writing topic, contains a number of serious errors, and

demonstrates only marginal communication with a specific audience.

F (0-59%) Incomplete work, work that fails to follow the assignment, and/or work that

fails to respond to the writing topic, contains a number of serious errors, and provides

little communication with a specific audience

FX = 59 and below: 0 points per semester hour (see definition of the FX grade, above)!

W (Withdrawn) …… 0 points per semester hour

*I (Incomplete) ….. 0 points per semester hour

*The grade of incomplete is given ONLY in special emergencies, for students

who have completed almost all work in the course, with the professor’s approval,

agreed upon in advance of the end of the semester.

Instructional Methods: Your online course will focus on learning about British Literature

before 1798, and online lectures and other instructional/informational files written by your

professor will augment the readings in the textbook. The course will also include

asynchronous class discussion, group work [peer analysis], and an oral video [giving you

practice in oral communications]). You will have files to read in Eagle Online with

assignment instructions, tips on writing, etc. Your text contains information about literary

terms (see “Literary Terminology,” in the Appendix [p. A10]), and as you will be

analyzing works of literature, you will be learning to think critically, and writing a research

paper (requiring use of library sources and MLA documentation). It will be VERY

important for you to read the comments that your professor writes painstakingly on your

first paper, so that you can improve on past mistakes and grow as a writer.

Assignment/Late work/Course Policies:

1. Late work: Assignments 1-7 days late will lose 10 points. Assignments 8 or more

days late will not be accepted for any reason and will receive a grade of zero (0).

Late work will NOT be accepted on the due date of the FINAL EXAM or thereafter.

2. Assignments not submitted will receive a grade of ZERO (0).

3. Assignments NOT submitted within the Turnitin Assignment links will NOT be

accepted and will receive a grade of ZERO (0).

4. Assignments submitted in a format that Turnitin cannot open is considered

Unsubmitted.

5. Grades will NOT be curved, and there will be NO extra credit.

6. Also, there will be NO “re-doing” of assignments that have been submitted and

graded.

7. Assignments must meet requirements as outlined in assignment instructions, in

Eagle Online. Assignments that do not meet requirements run the risk of an

automatic zero. !!

Student Support Services:

HCC Online (DE) Student Services: !

On the HCC Online Student Services page, you can find a link to the HCC Online

Student Handbook (the DE Student Handbook): http://de.hccs.edu/student-services/!

The HCC Online Student Handbook contains policies and procedures unique to the HCC

Online student. Students should have reviewed the handbook as part of the mandatory

orientation. It is the student’s responsibility to be familiar with the handbook’s contents.

The handbook contains valuable information, answers, and resources, such as HCC

Online contacts, policies and procedures (how to drop, attendance requirements, etc.),

student services (ADA, financial aid, degree planning, etc.), course information, testing

procedures, technical support, and academic calendars. Refer to the HCC Online

Student Handbook by visiting this link: !

DE Student Handbook

Online Tutoring: !

HCC provides free online tutoring in writing, math, science, and other subjects. Look for

Ask Online on your Eagle Online log-in page. This directs students to the HCC

AskOnline Tutoring site: http://hccs.askonline.net/. Use your student ID or HCC e-mail

address to create an account. Instructions, including a 5-minute video, are provided to

make you familiar with the capabilities of this service. !

Tutoring/Writing Centers (On Campus):

The Houston Community College Writing Centers provide a student-centered

environment where professional tutors support student success for all HCC students.

The primary goal of the Writing Centers is to offer free, convenient, and personalized

assistance to help students improve their writing at any stage of the writing process

required in any courses at HCC. Tutors will also assist students with their job application

letters, resumes, and scholarship/transfer essays.

Each session lasts about thirty minutes. Students should bring their professor's

assignment/writing prompt, any printed rough drafts, their textbooks, and (if necessary)

a flash drive.

Consult Find-A-Tutor at http://ctle3.hccs.edu/alltutoring/index.php?-link=stu for Writing

Center locations and times.

At HCC Writing Centers, each tutoring session becomes a learning experience.

Reasonable Accommodations:

Any student with a documented disability (e.g., physical, learning, psychiatric, etc.) who

needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the appropriate HCC

Disability Support Service (DSS) Counselor at the beginning of each semester. Faculty

members are authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the Ability

Support Services Office.

For questions, contact Donna Price at 713.718.5165 or the Disability Counselor at your

college. Get more detailed information on Disability Services at HCC here:

http://www.hccs.edu/district/students/disability-services/

o Coleman: 713-718-7082

o Central: 713-718-6164

o Northeast: 713-718-8322

o Northwest Katy Campus: 713-718-5408

o Northwest Spring Branch: 713-718-5422

o Southeast: 713-718-8397

o Southwest: 713-718-7910

Counseling:

Much HCC Online student information can be found on the HCC Online Student

Services website:

http://de.hccs.edu/student-services/

For counseling, begin with the Ask HCC Online Counseling student help form for any

counseling and advisement needs:

http://de-counseling.hccs.edu/StudentSignIn/

Student Services Associates (SSA) and Counselors can assist students with

admissions, registration, entrance testing requirements, degree planning, transfer

issues, and career counseling. In-person, confidential sessions, can also be scheduled,

if necessary, as HCC counselors maintain a local referral base in order to provide

appropriate referrals to students with personal or family issues that may require long-

term solutions. !

HCC has instituted an Early Alert process by which your professor may “alert” you and

HCC Online counselors that you might fail a class because of excessive absences

and/or poor academic performance. A counselor will then reach out to you to discuss

your progress and offer any relevant resources. This initiative is designed to provide

students with support services and resources to assist them in successfully completing

their course.!

Library Services:

As a HCC Online student you have the same access to first-rate information resources

that the HCC Libraries make available to all HCC students. A special website pulls

together all the tools HCC Online students will need to get their research rolling. Visit

http://library.hccs.edu/distanceed to learn about services specifically for HCC Online

students.

HCC has a Learning Resource Center/Library at each campus for student use. The

library provides electronic resources including an online catalog system as well as

numerous databases that contain full-text articles all available at https://library.hccs.edu.

Additionally, many of the required texts are on reserve at the library. Find out library

locations and hours here: http://library.hccs.edu/about_us/intersession_hours!

Through a daily library delivery service and a listing of all materials belonging to HCC

libraries, books may be requested from and delivered to any campus library. HCC also

has cooperative borrowing agreements with the University of Houston libraries and

provides a copy of the Houston Public library catalog at each library. These

arrangements provide students with access to over 4 million volumes.

Special services provided by the library system include photocopying facilities;

specialized equipment for disabled students; group and personalized instruction in

library use, including a self-instructional media program to orient students to the use of

the HCCS libraries; a “term paper” workshop; and online bibliographic search services.

Some library services are available online, but I urge you to visit an HCCS campus

library also, if at all possible. (Some of you may have access also to other college

libraries, such as University of Houston, Rice University, or University of Texas;

certainly, those libraries are fine if more convenient.) !

Open Computer Labs: !

Students have free access to the Internet and word processing in open computer labs

available at HCC campuses. Check on the door of the open computer lab for hours of

operation. Have your HCCS student ID card ready when you visit an open computer lab.

This is a perfect solution for those times when your personal computer is out of order

and you have an assignment due.

Social Networking:!

Become an HCC Online Facebook Fan:!

http://www.facebook.com/HCCDistanceEd!

Follow HCC Online on Twitter:!http://twitter.com/HCCDistanceEd!

Important HCCS and Course Policies:

Repeating Courses:

Students who repeat a course for three or more times will face significant tuition/fee

increases at HCC and other Texas public colleges and universities. Please ask your

instructor or counselor/advisor about opportunities for tutoring and/or other assistance prior

to considering course withdrawal or if you are not receiving passing grades.

Attendance, Active Participation, and the Official Day of Record:

Attendance, preparedness, and participation are essential for your success in this course.

HCC does not differentiate between excused and unexcused absences. As stated in the

HCC Catalog, all HCC students are expected to attend classes regularly. HCC Online

students must show active participation in order to be counted as attending; active

participation can be accomplished by a student’s response to any of the following: (1) writing

an essay, (2) taking a quiz/test, (3) posting a discussion response to an instructor’s

question, graded or not; or (4) sending an e-mail communication to the instructor. Students

in HCC Online courses must NOT ONLY log in to their Eagle Online 2 class, but they must

participate, or they will be counted as absent. Just like an on-campus class, your regular

participation is required.

HCC Policy states that you can miss up to but not exceeding 12.5% of class hours (two

weeks in an online course). If you have not logged in and actively participated before the

Official Day of Record (February 1), you may be AUTOMATICALLY withdrawn from the

course. Completing the HCC Online orientation does not count towards attendance. For this

class, posting a comment about Beowulf in the Discussion Forum is REQUIRED to establish

active participation in the class, prior to the Official Date of Record (see instructions below in

Week 1 of the Syllabus). If you do not yet have your textbook, you can read Beowulf on the

internet, in Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16328/16328-h/16328-h.htm.

Any student found to have quit participating actively (two weeks is typical) and whom the

Professor is unable to contact is subject to being dropped without further warning, resulting

in either a "W" or a "FX" grade, depending upon the time of the term at which the behavior is

noted.

Although it is the responsibility of the student to drop a course for non-attendance, the

instructor also has the authority to block a student from accessing Eagle Online, and/or to

drop a student for excessive absences or failure to participate regularly.

Withdrawal Policy:

Before withdrawing from the course, it is important to communicate with your professor and

counselors to discuss your options for succeeding in the course. To help you avoid having to

withdraw/drop from any class, contact your HCC Online professor regarding your academic

performance. You may also want to contact your HCC Online counselor to learn about

helpful HCC resources (e.g. online tutoring, child care, financial aid, job placement, etc.).

You should understand the consequences of withdrawing from classes: since Fall 2007, it

has been a State of Texas policy that students are limited to no more than SIX total course

withdrawals throughout their educational career at a Texas public college or university

(review the HCC 6 Drop Policy).

If all other options have been exhausted, you may withdraw yourself, but the last date to

withdraw this semester is April 5. Please remember that it is the student’s responsibility to

withdraw from a course. If you stop attending the class and don’t withdraw by this date, you

are subject to the FX grading policy.

Should you decide to drop/withdraw from a class, you can drop the class online within your

PeopleSoft Student account within the drop period. You can also visit your local HCC

Campus and obtain a form from a counselor.

Technical Compliance:

This class is a distance-education class using Eagle Online for notes, lectures and

assessments. Each student must maintain Internet access throughout this

course. Additionally, students are expected to maintain a state of technical compliance,

including (but not limited to): up-to-date software as required by the instructor; a stable

Internet connection; and use of the Firefox browser when using Eagle Online.

The instructor is not required to give consideration for lost/missing/unacceptable work

stemming from technical non-compliance and/or end-user technical issues. Failure to

maintain Internet access shall not constitute a valid excuse for missed work. Any student

who cannot keep up with the coursework owing to a lack of computer or Internet must drop

the course.

International Students:

Receiving a W in a course may affect the status of your student Visa. Once a W is given for

the course, it will not be changed to an F because of the visa consideration. Since January

1, 2003, International Students are restricted in the number of distance education courses

that they may take during each semester. International students must have full-time

enrollment status of 12 or more semester credit hours, and of these at least 9 semester

credit hours must be face-to-face on-campus courses. Please contact the International

Student Office at 713-718-8521 or email int_student[email protected], if you have any

questions about your visa status and other transfer issues.

Final Grade of FX:

Students who stop attending class or stop actively participating in class and do not withdraw

themselves prior to the withdrawal deadline may either be dropped by their professor for

excessive absences or be assigned the final grade of FX at the end of the semester.

Students who stop attending classes or who stop actively participating in classes will receive

a grade of FX, as compared to an earned grade of F, which is due to poor performance.

Logging into a DE course without active participation is considered non-attending.

Please note that HCC will not disperse financial aid funding for students who have never

attended class. Students who receive financial aid but fail to attend class will be reported to

the Department of Education and may have to pay back their aid. A grade of FX is treated

exactly the same as a grade of F in terms of GPA, probation, suspension, and satisfactory

academic progress.

Scholastic Dishonesty:

According to the Student Handbook for the Community College System, scholastic

dishonesty includes cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion and is punishable by a

grade of 0 or F on the particular assignment, failure in the course, and/or recommendation

for probation or dismissal from the College. A recommendation for suspension or expulsion

will be referred to the Dean of Students. For the purposes of this course, plagiarism includes

using another person’s words or ideas as your own and/or incorporating them into your own

work without quotation marks (if using exact phrasing) or appropriate acknowledgment (for

summaries or paraphrases). Collusion includes any “unauthorized collaboration with your

classmates or any other students—present or past—in the completion of work that you claim

as your own.” Plagiarism and collusion will result, at a minimum, in a grade of zero for

the assignment. I reserve the right not to allow revisions or rewrites of plagiarized

work or work that demonstrates collusion. Remember that Turnitin will show—in

red—the passages that match Internet sources, publications, and student papers.

Honesty in the academic setting involves doing your own work, and carefully

documenting all sources used (in quotations, paraphrases, and summaries)

according to MLA guidelines.

Virtual Classroom Conduct:

As with on-campus classes, all students in HCC Online courses are required to follow all

HCC Policies & Procedures, the Student Code of Conduct, the Student Handbook, and

relevant sections of the Texas Education Code when interacting and communicating in a

virtual classroom with your professor and fellow students. Students who violate these

policies and guidelines will be subject to disciplinary action that could include denial of

access to course-related email, discussion groups, and chat rooms or even removal from

the class. Go to this link for information on these topics: http://de.hccs.edu/media/houston-

community-college/distance-education/student-

services/studenthandbook/PoliciesandProcedures.pdf

EGLS3 (Evaluation for Greater Learning Student Survey System):

At Houston Community College, professors believe that thoughtful student feedback is

necessary to improve teaching and learning. During a designated time near the end of the

term, you will be asked to answer a short online survey of research-based questions related

to instruction. The anonymous results of the survey will be made available to your

professors and division chairs for continual improvement of instruction. Go to

www.hccs.edu/egls3 for directions.

Title IX Discrimination:

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 requires that institutions have policies and

procedures that protect students’ rights with regard to sex/gender discrimination. Information

regarding these rights are on the HCC website under Students>Anti-discrimination. Students

who are pregnant and require accommodations should contact any of the ADA Counselors

for assistance.

It is important that every student understands and conforms to respectful behavior while at

HCC. Sexual misconduct is not condoned and will be addressed promptly. Know your rights

and how to avoid these difficult situations.

to the button at the top right that says Login and enter your student number.

Any student who feels he/she has been discriminated against or harassed on the basis of

race, sex, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual

orientation, color or veteran status including sexual harassment, has the opportunity to seek

informal or formal resolution of the matter. All complaints/concerns should be directed to the

Office of Institutional Equity, 713 718-8271 or [email protected]. Additional information may be

obtained online. Visit http://www.hccs.edu/district/departments/institutionalequity/

Complaints involving sexual misconduct to include but not limited to: sexual assault,

stalking, dating violence, sexual harassment or domestic violence should be directed to the

HCC Title IX Coordinator, Renée Mack at 713 718-8272 or renee.mack@hccs.edu.

Open/Campus Carry of Handguns:

No Firearms Are Allowed on Campus. If you see anyone carrying a firearm on campus

call the HCC Police Department at 8-8888 immediately.

Texas House Bill 910—known as the “Open Carry” law—provides holders of a handgun

license may now carry their handgun visibly in a waist belt holster or a shoulder holster, but

they may not openly carry on or in a college campus or building and they may not openly

carry on any public or private driveway, street, sidewalk or walkway, parking lot, parking

garage or other parking area of the college. Open Carry is effective as of January 1, 2016.

Campus carry and open carry are two (2) separate laws. Texas Senate Bill 11—known as

the “Campus Carry” law—will allow individuals who have a valid Texas handgun license to

carry a concealed handgun in certain areas on college campuses. The Campus Carry law

becomes effective at 4-year institutions on August 1, 2016 and at 2-year institutions on

August 1, 2017.

All information regarding both Open Carry and Campus Carry will be posted at

http://www.hccs.edu/campuscarry.

Campus Safety:

If you are on campus and need emergency assistance, call 713-718-8888 or, from any

campus phone, 8-8888. Use this emergency number instead of 911, which gets routed back

to the HCC Police Department dispatch thus lengthening response time to your emergency

situation.

Important Dates:

January 19 Semester Begins

February 1 Official Day of Record

February 25 Presidents’ Day

March 13-19 Spring Break

March 25-27 Spring Holiday

April 5 Last Day to Withdraw from a Course

May 7 Final Exam

May 14 End of Semester

Syllabus for English 2322 DE (HCC Online): Spring 2016

CRN 91627

Note: This syllabus is subject to change at any time. Check your online course

daily for e-mail messages, announcements, and postings in discussion forums.

Make sure you read Lectures and other online course materials in conjunction

with you’re the reading assignments in your textbook!

Remember, you are to participate in class several times per week. The

Participation grade (see “Course Requirements” above) will reflect the student’s

participating professionally—(1) posting comments in all discussion forums, (2) reading

all files in the course, (3) submitting all assignments, and (4) exhibiting a sincere effort

to learn about all facets of the course (the literary works, literary analysis, MLA

documentation, use of the library, the writing process, and critical thinking). If you do not

participate during a given week, you will be counted as absent (see the

“Attendance/Active Participation” policy, above).

Week 1: 1/19-1/23: First Day of Class is 1/19/16

Print your Syllabus and buy your book, The Norton Anthology of English Literature

(Volume 1, 9

ed.).

Read the Introduction to the Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) and Beowulf (translated by

Seamus Heaney) in The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Also read the lecture

on Beowulf (written by your professor). Also, familiarize yourself with the course; read

files containing information on writing, the Reader-Response Journal, MLA

documentation, etc.

(Also, there is additional, not required reading material pertaining to Beowulf in the

Norton web site, at www.wwnorton.com/nael).

Post a paragraph-long comment in the Discussion Forum in Week 1 about Beowulf. If

you do not yet have your textbook, you can read Beowulf on the Internet, in Project

Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16328/16328-h/16328-h.htm. Posting a

comment about Beowulf in the Discussion Forum is REQUIRED to establish active

participation in the class, prior to the Official Date of Record.

Begin writing the Reader-Response Journal (due May 2), by writing a journal entry on

Beowulf. Save ALL journal entries for the semester in one Word file, with each entry

beginning at the top of a page. See the file on the Reader-Response Journal for more

information.

Week 2: 1/24-1/30:

Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (and corresponding lecture).

Post your comments on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Week 3: 1/31-2/6 (Feb. 1 is the Official Date of Record):

Read “The General Prologue” to Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, as well as

“The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale” and lecture on Chaucer.

Post comments on Chaucer’s works in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on the assigned reading by Chaucer.

Week 4: 2/7-2/13:

Read the Introduction to the Sixteenth Century (1485-1603).

The Sonnet: Read from Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella

(numbers 7, 39, 41, 81), and read from Shakespeare’s Sonnets (numbers 18, 29, 106,

116, 130). Read the lecture on the sonnets.

Post comments on sonnets by Sidney and Shakespeare in the Discussion forum.

Read the assignment instructions file for the Poetry Analysis Essay (due 3/7), which

also includes an Oral Report Video (due 3/9) and Power Point Presentation (due

3/9).

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on the assigned sonnets by Sidney and

Shakespeare.

Week 5: 2/14-2/20 (2/15 is the Presidents’ Day Holiday):

Read Twelfth Night by Shakespeare and the corresponding lecture.

Post comments on Twelfth Night in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on Twelfth Night.

Week 6: 2/21-2/27:

Read King Lear by Shakespeare and the corresponding lecture.

Post comments on King Lear in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on King Lear.

Begin reading Gulliver’s Travels, in preparation for writing the Research Paper (due

April 18). Note that Parts I, II, and IV are in The Norton Anthology; Part III “A Voyage to

Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdugdrib, and Japan” can be accessed through

Project Gutenberg online (and scroll down considerably until you find Part III):

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm

Week 7: 2/28-3/5:

Read the Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660).

Read from John Donne’s works: “The Flea,” “The Good-Morrow,” “The Sun Rising,” “A

Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “Holy Sonnet 10,” “Meditation 17.” Also read the

lecture on Donne.

Post comments on Donne’s works in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on the assigned poetry and prose by Donne.

Week 8: 3/6-3/12:

Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Read Ben Jonson’s “Inviting a Friend to Supper” and “To

Penshurst”; read George Herbert’s “The Altar” and “Easter Wings”; read Robert

Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” and “Upon Julia’s Clothes”; read

Richard Lovelace’s “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” and “To Althea, from Prison”; and

read Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.” Read also the corresponding lecture.

Post comments on the selected poems from the 17

century in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on the poems by Jonson, Herbert, Herrick,

Lovelace, and Marvell.

Poetry Analysis Essay due Monday of week 8, March 7, by 8 a.m. Submit your

Poetry Analysis in the Week 8 Turnitin Assignment link in Eagle Online.

Oral Report Video due on Wednesday, March 9, by 8 a.m. in the Oral Report Video

Assignment link in Week 8 in Eagle Online.

Power Point Presentation (accompanying the Oral Report Video) due on

Wednesday, March 9, by 8 a.m. in the Turnitin link in Week 8 in Eagle Online.!

SPRING BREAK: MARCH 13-19

Week 9: 3/20-3/26 (March 25-26—Spring Holiday): !

Read John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books 1-6 (the first half of the poem). (Also, check

out the selections for Paradise Lost in Context, at Norton Topics Online—see

www.wwnorton.com/nael.) Read the corresponding lecture.

Post comments on Paradise Lost (Books 1-6) in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on Paradise Lost, Books 1-6.

Read the instructions file on writing the Research Paper (due April 18). You should be

finished with reading Gulliver’s Travels (begun in Week 6).

Week 10: 3/27-4/2 (March 27—Spring Holiday):

Read John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books 7-12.

Post comments on Books 7-12 of Paradise Lost in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on Paradise Lost, Books 7-12.

Week 11: 4/3-4/9:

(Note: Tuesday, April 5, is the last day to drop with a grade of W prior to 4:30 PM.

If a student decides to drop or withdraw from a class upon careful review of other

options, the student can drop online prior to the deadline through his/her HCC

Student Center. HCC and/or instructors may drop students for excessive

absences without notification. However, do NOT assume that you will

automatically be dropped for excessive absences.)

Read the Introduction to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785).

Read John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel and the corresponding lecture.

Post comments on Absalom and Achitophel in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel.

Work on the Research Paper Rough Draft.

Week 12: 4/10-4/16:

Read the lecture on Gulliver’s Travels (which you should have begun reading in Week

6).

Post comments on Gulliver’s Travels in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on Gulliver’s Travels.

Work on revising the Rough Draft of the Research Paper.

Peer Analysis of Research Paper: Complete a Peer Analysis (required) in the Group

Forum set up in Eagle Online in Week 12.!

Week 13: 4/17-4/23:

Read Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and the corresponding lecture.

Post comments about The Rape of the Lock in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.

RESEARCH PAPERS DUE Monday of Week 13, April 18, BY 8 AM! Submit your

research paper in the Week 13 Turnitin Assignment link in Eagle Online.

Week 14: 4/24-4/30:!

Read the selections from Dr. Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language,

“The Preface to Shakespeare,” and Lives of the Poets, “Milton” [Paradise Lost] and

“Pope.” Also, read the selections from James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson,

LL.D. Read the lecture on Johnson and Boswell.

Post comments about the readings from Johnson and Boswell in the Discussion forum.

Write a Reader-Response Journal entry on the assigned readings by Johnson and

Boswell.

Week 15: 5/1-5/7: !

Reader-Response Journal due Monday of Week 15, May 2, by 8 AM!

Write your final examination essay (see the Final Examination file in Eagle Online for

instructions).

Saturday, May 7: Final Examination due. Submit your Final Examination (as .doc,

.docx, or .rtf file format) in Eagle Online in the Week 15 Turnitin link NO LATER THAN 8

AM. There will be NO extensions for ANY reason.

Week 16: 5/8-5/14:!

Look at your graded final examination in Eagle Online, as well as the Participation grade

for the semester and your course grade average in “Grades.” Note the “Grade

Percentages” used to calculate the course grade in this Syllabus (above), under

Course Policies.