Schedule for English 300  F2004 from Sept 9-Dec. 17

This schedule is primarily to identify broad subject areas, test dates, holidays, and the general vicinity of presentations. It is subject to radical revision.

Sept. 9: Norton Anth: Introduction & Plato: Ion, Chap VII of Republic; Review of Idea of Order at Key West. Four Elements of Total Literary Situation. The Function of Criticism: Matthew Arnold. Walter Pater.
Sept. 14. Plato: Ion, Chap VII, X of Republic. Aristotle’s Poetics. The Platonic Dilemma and the Aristotellian Solution.
Sept. 16. The Poetics (continued).
Sept. 21: Longinus’ “On the Sublime.” Subjectivity.
Sept. 23: Longinus (continued)   Medieval Four Levels. Read Dante; Sidney and Johnson
Sept 28: Sidney and Johnson (continued): the Romantics: Coleridge, Shelley, et. Al.
Sept. 30:The Romantics (continued); Victorians; Arnold and Pater

Oct. 5:  Moderns: Woolf, Eliot, Formalism.
Oct. 7: Moderns continued.
Oct. 12: Quiz # 1
Oct. 14: Modern: Woolf & Eliot
Oct. 19: Archetypes: Northrop Frye
Oct. 21: Deconstruction: Derrida et al.
Oct. 26: Individual critics I.
Oct. 28: Individual critics II.

Nov. 2: No class: Election Day
Nov. 3: Individual critics III
Nov. 9 Questions of the Canon. Meet in groups to review Bookmark. Read selections in text related to Canon and Tradition.
Nov. 11: No Class: Veteran’s Day
Nov. 16: The Canon (Continued)
Nov. 18: The Canon (continued)
Nov. 23 Quiz # 2
Nov. 30: Group Presentations  Groups 1-3

Dec. 2: Group Presentations: Groups 4-6
Dec. 7: Individual Presentations 3 minutes max. 1-20
Dec. 9: Individual Presentations 3 minutes max  21-40
Dec. 13-17: Final Exams   Final Exam for English 300: Dec. 17th. 2-350.

Each student is expected to read assignments from the text, perform satisfactorily on two quizzes and a final, participate in group projects, review and revise the MSU Top 100 Bookmark, keep a written on-line journal demonstrating a full engagement with the themes and issues of the class, participate in class discussion, attend class, and prepare a 3-5 page final paper related to the theme “Literary Criticism and the Well-Lived Life.” Each student will be expected to bring to bear on the theme insights derived from his/her assigned critic, topics, and from class discussions and interactions with others and reading of other on-line journals. Points; Quiz 1-100; Quiz 2- 100; Final: 50;  Miscellaneous: 50; Term Paper: 100; online journal: 150; Presentations and Projects: 50. Total: 600.