ENGL 339 Syllabus - Spring 2003

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Instructor: Dr. Cora Agatucci
Cora's Home Page: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/
Bend campus Office: Deschutes 14; Office Hours: TBA; also by appointment
see also Cora's current Schedule: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/schedule.htm
Office Phone & Voicemail: (541) 383-7522
E-Mail: cagatucci@cocc.edu
Cora's Humanities Dept. Mailbox: Modoc 226
Humanities Dept. Fax: (541) 317-3062 (Be sure to address to: Cora Agatucci)

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RECOMMENDED COURSE PREPARATION:

	Successful completion of at least one lower division English or Humanities course.
	For EOU M.U.D./Discourse Studies students: --successful completion of ENGL 206 (Applied Literary Criticism) and --upper division standing in your EOU program

REQUIRED:

	Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. [First published: 1988.] New York: Seal Press, 1989.
	Ishiguro, Kazuo. Pale View of Hills. [First published: 1982.] Vintage- International-Random House, 1990.
	Scott, Paul. The Jewel in the Crown. [First published: 1966.] The Raj Quartet, Vol. 1. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998. and . . .

Online Course Pack / Reserve readings and In-Class Film viewings, including:

	Excerpts from *Braveheart.* Dir. Mel Gibson. (Paramount, 1995; total runtime: 177 min.)
	Episode 1 & 2 of Jewel in the Crown. Dir. Christopher Morahan & Jim O'Brien. (Granada, UK, 1984; episode 1 runtime: 200 min.)
	*Rhapsody in August.* Dir. Akira Kurosawa. (Japan, 1991; total runtime: 98 min.) and . . .
	Others as required and/or recommended: i.e. To Live & Chocolat (videotape viewings: see Course Plan)

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COURSE GRADING:

	75% - Seminar Work (Readings, Discussion Questions, Reports, Summaries, & In-Class Discussion)
	25% - Final Project

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Genre:

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Ann Charters defines genre as "a type of literary work, such as short story, novel, essay, play, or poem. The term may also be used to classify literature within a type, such as science-fiction stories or detective novels [or historical fiction]. In film, the term refers to a recognizable type of movie, such as a western or a thriller, that follow familiar narrative or visual conventions"
-Ann Charters, ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 5^th ed. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 1999. 983.

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Fiction:

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"The word fiction comes originally from Latin fingere, to fashion or to form. Fiction is usually narrative . . . ." "Narrative is the recounting of a succession of events. Many narratives are fictional, including epics and novels, but narrative can include nonfiction such as history and autobiography."
-Jack Lynch (Rutgers Univ.). "Fiction" and "Narrative,"
from Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms, 1999. March 2003.
URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/

Any student with a documented disability
(physical, learning, psychological, vision, hearing)
who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations
must inform OSU-Cascades and
Cora as soon as possible.