Course Name	Special Topics for English Poetry
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Hyeuk Kyu Joo
	Department	English

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Explain the role of the self in English Literature and summarize the signification of                  the self in the act of reading.

2. Explain key concepts involved in Paradise Lost, which include but are never limited to:              subjectivity, anxiety and influence, good and evil, and writing as an act of (dis-)placing the         self.

3. Discuss Emerson's literary position as the architect of indigenous American values.

4. Describe the cultural context in which the listed American authors lived and identify how            it helps shape their arguments and the main characters of their works.

5. Explain the central tenets of American Romanticism.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Major reading materials will be covered by a course reader; additional reading requirements will be posted on the class cafe.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

Topics for discussion, all related to course objectives, will be posted on the class web page( http://cafe.naver.com/hyeuk001). Individual students are required to give their own responses to each of them in a timely manner. Topics are various; responses should be penetrating and concise.

Grading Scheme:

Final grade is calculated with these variously weighted assignments:

Reading Response (Web Posting)      400 pt.

Reading Quizzes                       200 pt.

Attendance                            100 pt. (one unexcused absence acceptable)

Final                                  400 pt.

COURSE SCHEDULE

* Paradise Lost in Plain English

Week 1: Introduction to Class & John Milton's Life and Paradise Lost (1674)

Week 2: Paradise Lost

Week 3: Paradise Lost

Week 4: Paradise Lost

Week 5: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Week 6: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Week 7: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Week 8: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Week 9: Edgar Allen Poe

Week 10: Edgar Allen Poe

Week 11: Walt Whitman

Week 12: Walt Whitman

Week 13: Emily Dickinson

Week 14: Emily Dickinson

Week 15: Emily Dickinson

(* This is a living plan and is subject to change upon prior notice. Changes will be announced in class and/or via the web notice)

Course Outline: This course is necessarily dedicated to perusing selected works of English canonical authors. We will approach each work methodically, looking in detail at the workings of language, as well as the structure of culture, class, gender, and religion which, to varying degrees, help to shape individual authors' life. Watching and discussing film versions of the selected works is also a possibility, if time permits.

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 751-5888; e-mail: hyeuk001@hanmail.net