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Pens and Plows – Writings of Working the Land
Course Syllabus
CSS 340 – English 340 – Fall 2009
Ecampus
Professors:
Dr. David Hannaway
Office: 125 Crop Science Building
Corvallis, OR 97339
Phone: 541-737-5863
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: by appointment
Dr. Neil Browne
Office 236 Cascades Hall
Bend, OR 97701
Phone: 541-322-3129
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: by appointment
Kimberly Hannaway, M.Ed
Office: Crop Science Building
Phone: 541-609-0939
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: by appointment
Class website: Blackboard (Ecampus)
Prerequisites: none
Course Objective:
This course presents works of literature featuring agricultural practices. Selected works of
literature from Ancient Greece through the modern era are presented and discussed for their
importance as literary works and agricultural accuracies. Students read great writings from
English and Ag Science perspectives.
The course will consist of ten units reflecting eras of literary styles:
Units: Ancient Greek, Ancient Romans, Medieval times, Renaissance, Rationalism,
Romanticism, European Realism, American Realism, European Modernism, American
Modernism.
Learning Outcomes:
Students successfully completing the course should be able to:
1. Define the principal tenets of the pastoral tradition and uses of agricultural terms and
metaphors in literature.
2. Compare the pastoral tradition with other types of agricultural writings.
3. Construct a broad historical framework in which to locate the readings.
4. Distinguish in writing at least three pastoral preoccupations in one reading.
5. Compare in writing at least two readings that share a particular feature or perspective.
6. Summarize in writing at least three pastoral preoccupations the readings share.
7. Describe how agricultural practices in literature have been modified in the successive
cultural contexts under examination in the course.
8. Evaluate the accuracy of agricultural practices presented in literary works.
Literature: assigned or optional include the following. Asterisks imply required works.
*Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Theocritus - Idyll IX
Aristotle – Poetics
*Virgil - Eclogue I, IV
Horace - Book I, Ode 38; Book II, Ode 15, Book III, Ode 16
*Boccaccio – The Decameron
Unknown – Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
Unknown – The Second Shepherd’s Play
Spenser – The Shephearde’s Calendar
*Shakespeare – As You Like It
Milton – Lycidas
*Voltaire – Candide
Taylor - Upon Wedlock and Death of Children
Goldsmith – The Deserted Village
Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, Query XIX
*Wordsworth – Michael; Sonnet XIV
*Dickenson – 130, 324, 657, 986
Keats – Ode to a Grecian Urn
Whitman – Song of Myself
Hawthorne – Rappaccini’s Daughter
Emerson – Nature
Thoreau – Walden
Flaubert – A Simple Heart
*Ibsen – A Doll House
Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd
*Twain – The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Crane – The Open Boat
Rand – Atlas Shrugged
London - The Law of Life
*Conrad – Heart of Darkness
Huxley – Brave New World
Joyce – The Dead
Kafka – Metamorphosis
Lawrence – The Odour of Chrysanthemums
Miller – Death of a Salesman
*Kozinski – Being There
Frost – The Road Not Taken; Birches; Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy
Evening; Desert Places
O’Conner – Greenleaf
Baldwin – Sonny’s Blues
Neil Browne (lead instructor) will guide students through the English terminology and literary
attributes of the selected works of literature. David Hannaway will comment on the agricultural
practices presented in the literature and guide students to develop a critical eye to science
presented in non-science writings. The English department fully supports the course’s
objectives, delivery and Dr. Browne’s involvement in the course as an online course. Kimberly
Hannaway, course developer, will assist with Blackboard delivery and student progess.
Assessment/Evaluation of student performance
The course will contain required and optional readings, quizzes, journal entries, and 3 essays.
Students are required to read each assigned (required) work.
Quizzes will check for reading comprehension of the 11 required readings. Quizzes will be
taken online and each will consist of 10, multiple-choice questions.
Journal entries and essays required within the course will be posted to the class Blackboard
website. Journal entries will consist of three phases: course notes, discussions, reader-response.
Students are expected to submit observations from the readings by Tuesday of each week.
Students will then participate in discussions until Friday, with reader-responses submitted by
midnight Sunday.
Three critical essays are required for successful completion of the course. The first is an
analytical essay (analysis of one reading from the first half of the term) of 800+ words. The
second essay is a comparative essay (a researched comparative analysis of two or more readings,
one must be a novel from the approved list. The third essay is an evaluation of agricultural
practices discussed in the selected readings. Additionally, students’ analysis and synthesis skills
will be evaluated in the second essay of 1200 words as it must include research material.
The American Psychological Association (APA) or Modern Language Association (MLA)
format is required of all written work.
Formula for Final Grade
Quizzes (11 quizzes)
=20%
Journal (participation in 10 discussions)
=10%
Analytical Essay (an analysis of one reading of 800+ words)
=20%
Comparative Essay (a researched comparative analysis of 2 readings, 1200 words) =30%
Essay of 800+ words evaluation of agricultural practices within the literary works =20%
Total
100%
Late essays, except those with valid excuses, are subject to severe grade penalties. (“Late”
means that an essay has not been posted by midnight Friday of the week in which an essay is
due.) Students should let the professor know about extenuating circumstances in advance unless
they find themselves in genuinely unforeseen crises (e.g. an auto collision or death in the family).
Attendance for this class will be defined two journal entries/week. Missing entries will be
assessed zero points. Student grades will be based upon performance and not effort. Effort will
be partially reflected in the quality of work that students submit.
Grading Scales
Grades are based on the percentage of maximum points accumulated and assigned according to
the following:
A
A-
94-100%
90-93%
B+
B
B-
86-89%
83-85%
80-82%
Assignment
Due Date
Quizzes
Weekly, 2 due in
week 5
Weekly, 2 due in
week 5
Week 4 Friday
midnight
Week 9 Friday
midnight
After Wk 6 before
Finals Week
Journal entries
Analytical essay
Comparative essay
Evaluation of Ag
practices essay
Total Words
C+
C
C-
76-79%
73-75%
70-72%
D+
D
D-
66-69%
63-65%
60-62%
Number
required
11
Number of
Words
N/A
Grade value
11
>50 X 11 =550
10%
1
>800
20%
1
>1200
30%
1
>800
20%
3,350
100%
20%
COURSE SCHEDULE- LECTURES - ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES
Week
1
-
2
Lecture
Introduction to course
Writings of the ancient world
Ancient Greek
Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
Ancient Romans
Virgil, Horace, Boccaccio
3
Medieval times
Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, Sir Gawain,
Everyman, Julian of Norwich
4
Renaissance
Shakespeare, Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson,
Raleigh, Spenser, Sidney,
5
Rationalism
Descartes, Pascal, Bayles, Montesquieu,
Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau
6
Romanticism
Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Poe,
Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, Lamb,
Austen
7
European Realism
Adams, Alger, Baum, Bellamy
8
American Realism
Chesnutt, Crane, James, Twain, Wharton
Required reading
Other readings are required but
student may select works within
each era.
Reading &
Assignment
Oedipus Rex
Journal entry 1
Quiz 1
Ecologue I, IV
The Decameron
Journal entry 3
Quiz 3
As You Like It
Candide
Michael
Sonnet XIV
Dickenson – 130, 324, 657, 986
A Doll House
The Man Who Corrupted
Hadleyburg
Eurp
9
10
European Modernism
Barnes, Beckett, Brooke, Chesterton,
Conrad, Doyle, Eliot, Forester, Graves,
Greene
American Modernism
Cather, Crane, Bishop, Dos Passos,
Faulkner, Ferber, Cummings, Chandler,
Miller; Frost; O’Connor; Baldwin
Journal entry 2
Quiz 2
Answer questions in
chapter 2
Journal entry 4 and 5
Quiz 4
Analytical essay due
Friday at midnight
Journal entry 6
Quiz 5, 6
Journal entry 7
Quiz 7
Evaluation essay due
Friday midnight
Journal entry 8
Quiz 8
Journal entry 9
Heart of Darkness
Journal entry 10
Quiz 10
Comparative essay
due Friday midnight
Being There
Journal entry 11
Quiz 11
Students with Disabilities
"Accommodations are collaborative efforts between students, faculty and
Disability Access Services (DAS). Students with accommodations approved through
DAS are responsible for contacting the faculty member in charge of the course
prior to or during the first week of the term to discuss accommodations.
Students who believe they are eligible for accommodations but who have not yet
obtained approval through DAS should contact DAS immediately at 737-4098."
-Link to Statement of Expectations for Student Conduct, i.e., cheating policies
http://oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/achon.htm