Syllabus

**Spring 2011 **
 * FLE 140(4): English Literature I **

Instructor: Res. Assist. Bengü Taşkesen Course Section: 4 Office: DBE E-222 Phone: 210 36 67 Office Hours: Monday, 16:30-17:15, or by appointment. E-mail: taskesen@metu.edu.tr

Throughout their education, undergraduate students are required to use analytical reading and critical thinking skills, besides developing a familiarity with the contemporary English speaking cultures. This course aims to enable the students to become familiar with English literature from the Medieval Age to the Restoration Period, improve their knowledge and their appreciation of literary texts; enhance their analytical skills and their understanding of certain cultural and social elements in British culture. For this purpose, students will closely study selected samples of poetry, prose, fiction and drama.
 * Course Description **

After taking the course, students will: · have improved their command of English; · have improved their knowledge of English Literature, · have improved their critical thinking skills through class discussions of texts; · be able to analyze poems and other literary works; · be familiarized with certain social and cultural elements in British culture; <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">· cultivate their appreciation of literature.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Course Objectives **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A course pack containing the following texts will be provided by the instructor for photocopying:
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Course Materials **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Medieval English <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extracts from //Beowulf// (Anonymous) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Lanval// by Marie de France <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extract from //Piers Plowman// by William Langland <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extracts from //The Canterbury Tales// by Geoffrey Chaucer <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“The Three Ravens” <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extract from //Morte Darthur// by Sir Thomas Malory <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">16th Century <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Utopia// by Sir Thomas More <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“They Flee From Me” by Sir Thomas Wyatt <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“On Monsieur’s Departure” and <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Letter to Henry III, King of France” by Queen Elizabeth <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sonnet 54 by Edmund Spenser <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extracts from //Astrophil and Stella// by Sir Philip Sidney <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sonnets 116 and 130, //Romeo and Juliet// by William Shakespeare <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">17th Century <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“The Flea”, Song (“Go and Catch a Falling Star”) and “Meditation 17” by John Donne <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“On My First Daughter”, “Song: To Celia”, “To Heaven” by Ben Jonson <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, “Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“A Married State” by Katherine Phillips <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extract from //The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World// by Margaret Cavendish <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“When I Consider How My Light is Spent”, “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont” by John Milton, overview of Milton’s Works <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Overview of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">18th Century (Restoration) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Song from Marriage à la Mode”, Extract from “Mac Flecknoe”, “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”, Extract from //An Essay on Dramatic Poesy// by John Dryden <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extract from //Oroonoko or The Royal Slave// by Aphra Behn <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extract from //The Pilgrim’s Progres//s by John Bunyan <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extract from “Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Ode on the Death of A Favourite Cat”, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Evaluation and Grading **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pop quizzes 10% <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Term Paper 15% <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Midterm 30% <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Final 40% || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">90-100 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">85-89 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">80-84 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">75-79 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">70-74 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">65-69 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60-64 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">50-59 AA <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">49 and below AA ||
 * **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Evaluation ** || **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grading ** ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Attendance and participation 5 %