Syllabus
Professor Dana Milstein: English 2800
email: danamilstein@nyc.rr.com phone: (917) 628-6599
Office Hours: On AIM Mondays 11-midnight and by appointment. Screen name: drdanamilstein
Required Provided Materials: Blog: http://gw2800milstein.blogspot.com/
(IMPORTANT: You will need to set up a free gmail email address at www.gmail.com in order to post responses on the various blogs. Each online lesson is created on its own blog requires individual registration; therefore, you will receive multiple invitations and must accept ALL of them in order to post throughout the semester.)
Tentative Schedule
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1/28 Jan First day of classes hand out syllabi
2/2 introductions, discussion of comedy
2/4 Lysistrata Part 1
2/9 Lysistrata Part 2
2/11 library (writing a script)
2/16 Performing Scripts
2/18 Feb no classes
2/23 Odyssey Books IX and X
2/25 online 1: Odyssey Books XXI-XXIII
3/2 Art of Courtly Love: Ovid, Capellanus, Castiglione
3/4 library day
3/9 Medea
3/11 online 2: 1001 Nights
3/16 Canterbury Tales Miller’s Tale and Prologue
3/18 take-home essay 1
3/23 The Decameron
3/25 peer review (essay 1 due 3/28 via email)
3/30, 4/1 no class
4/6 Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
4/8 library day
4/13 writing a comic script
4/15 online 3: Tale of the Genji
4/20 performance of scripts
4/22 library day
4/27 Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
4/29 online 4: Designing a college education
5/4 individual presentations
5/6 final library day
5/11-5/13 Final Presentations
Rubric and Policy: This class is experimental – part of it will be conducted online; therefore, you have the leisure to complete online materials at times outside our regular course meetings. In-class meetings will NOT be lecture based—you must come to class prepared to boisterously discuss the readings!
1. Participation: We will use a traditional blog for online meetings. For each online meeting, you must A) respond to the provided questions in a post of 150-200 words and B) respond to two of your peers using the COMMENTS feature in their Posts (of 50-100 words each). Your participation grade will be computed using three factors: A) Responses must be posted/ commented for all class sessions within 72 hours of the reading date on your syllabus, B) Your responses must be quality, not quantity, based and must demonstrate an effort to use at least spell/grammar check in Word. I expect short paragraphs that further the discussion and offer feedback/ suggestions to your peers and demonstrate that you have read the assigned text, C) Flaming and spam will not be tolerated.
2. All work in the form of activities and exams MUST be submitted electronically within 24 hours of the due date. Ten points will be deducted each day the assignment is late. These points cannot be added with extra credit or revisions.
3. All students must attend class in person on the designated Class Meetings.
4. All students will participate in a group presentation, which can be prepared during normal class hours, or during hours of your choosing. You will conduct this preparation in a professional manner; we will cover details at a later date.
Grade Distribution:
In-class Participation/ Online Responses: 35%
Group Presentation: 15%
Individual Presentation: 10%
Exams: 20% each, totaling 40%
Note: Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated. If you encounter a brick wall in your writing, or are having personal problems, email me immediately to set up a private appointment, and we will find a resolution that works for you.
