Literature 280
Finding the Beat Path: The Road from the
Transcendentalists to the Beat Poets
Instructor:
Andrea Karn
E-Mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: I hold
my office hours in The Learning Place. See the link on the Student Page for my
available times.
Course Description:
This course will be very reading and writing intensive. The
student will uncover the link between the Transcendentalists and the Beat Poets
by reading and researching about their lifestyles, religious practices,
literary habits, and philosophical movements. The student will also discover
their social perceptions at the time of their inception, and how this has, or
hasn't, changed today. To learn about the theoretical teaching approach that this class will be experiencing, please read my teaching philosophy. Also, look ahead at the schedule for the semester.
Text and Materials:
-The Beat Reader,
Anne Charters
-On the Road, Jack
Kerouac
-Howl and Other Poems,
Allen Ginsberg
-Naked Lunch,
William Burroughs
-The
Transcendentalists: A Reader, Joel Myerson
-The Tao of Pooh-Benjamin
Hoff
-Norton Critical
Edition (3rd edition), Norton
Attendance
Requirements:
Your successful completion of the course, as well as your
mastery of the material, depends on regular attendance and on diligence in
completing the assignments both in and out of class. However, it is understood
that students may have to miss class due to illness and/or unforeseeable
scheduling conflicts. Therefore, six absences during the semester are
permitted, but after the sixth absence the student will be withdrawn from the
class. If you are no more than twenty minutes late, this will count as a 1/2
class absence. In addition, you are responsible for obtaining you own missed
work. Please contact me as soon as possible if you have missed a class, so you
know what needs to be done and won't fall behind. Writing assignments and tests
are scheduled well in advance; therefore, you are responsible for completing
these tasks on time.
Academic Honesty:
Each student must be honest and do his/her own work.
Students caught cheating will receive a zero on the test or assignment on which
they cheated.
Student Evaluation
Criteria:
TestsThere
will be four tests throughout the semester, and each is worth 100 points.
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Grades
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