HEL 227 - Introduction to World Fiction
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CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Introduction to World Fiction is intended to promote an increased cross-cultural awareness and understanding through reading and responding to authors from cultures and areas throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arabic world, as well as women authors and ethnic minorities from the United States

GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:

1. Recognize ethical and moral issues that arise in literary works from different times and cultures.
2. Promote an understanding of how people's value systems develop, grow, and influence their attitudes, behaviors, and communications.
3. Refine the ability to recognize, analyze, explain, and interpret literary elements, and to present those analyses, explanations, and interpretations in a concise, logical, and persuasive way.
4. Write clear, coherent, and well-argued critical essays.
5. Develop critical thinking skills by reading short stories and a novel.

Worlds of Fiction, Second Edition, Roberta Rubenstein & Charles R. Larson, Prentice-Hall (2002), ISBN: 0130416398

Fateless, Imre Kertesz, Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson (Translator), Katharina Wilson (Translator), Chrisropher Wilson (Translator) / Paperback / Northwestern University Press / July 1992, ISBN: 0810110490

ADA STATEMENT:

CCI seeks to provide effective services and accommodations for qualified individuals with documented disabilities.   The goal of Disability Support Services (DSS) is to provide opportunities for equal access in college programs, services, and activities.  DSS assists students with disabilities in achieving their educational goals through such services as avademic and career counseling, adaptive testing, tutoring, note taking, interpreting, and test proctoring.

If you have a documented disability and wish to obtain assistance, please contact the DDS office located in Room ____ or call __________.

ACADEMIC HONESTY STATEMENT:

The College is committed to academic integrity in all its practices.  The faculty value intellectual integrity and a high standard of academic conduct.  Activities that violate academic integrity undermine the quality and diminish the value of educational achievement.

Cheating on papers, tests, or other academic qorks is a violation of College rules.  No student shall engaged in behavior that, in the judment of the instructor of the class, may be construed as cheating.  This may include, but is not limited to, plagiarism or other forms of academic dishonesty such as the acquisition without permission of tests or other academic materials and/or distribution of these materials and other academic work.  This includes students who aid and abet as well as those who attempt such behavior.

METHOD OF DELIVERY:

This is a web-based distance learning course that includes discussion, reading, and writing assignments.  Students will be expected to read assigned selections from the course text and a novel, send responses to focus questions to the instructor as email attachments, and write  three critical essays. 

METHODS OF EVALUATION:

Students will be evaluated in the following areas:

• Close reading of a variety of world fiction short stories and a novel
• Responding to questions upon completion of each close reading
• Writing two critical essays covering world fiction short stories; and
• Writing one critical essay covering assigned novel

A scoring rubric is located in Instructor's Notes.

ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE:

Weekly reading and writing assignments are expected to be completed by Friday each week.  Due dates for the critical essays are shown in Instructor's Notes as well as Assignments.

The schedule and procedure for conducting this class are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances.

MAKE-UP POLICY:

Work may be made up within a reasonable time following a due date at the instructor's discretion.  Notice must be provided to the instructor before the due date of any assignment that a student will be unable to complete the assignment.   Permission for late work will be granted at that time.  No late work will be accepted without this notification.  Chronic lateness is not acceptable.  After two late assignments are submitted, no further late work will be accepted.