Survey IV—Twentieth-Century English Literature – אוניברסיטת חיפה
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Course Description:
The course is designed to acquaint students with some of the major voices of English literature in the 20th century in their historical contexts. We will read a broad selection of essays, poetry, fiction and drama and discuss questions of canonicity, ideology and literature, and the impact of social and cultural changes on modes of literary representation.
Weekly Schedule
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Weighting of Assignments
Midterm: 20%
Final Exam: 80%
Course Policies:
In order for you to get the most out of this class:
- Attend all scheduled classes and arrive on time.
- Remain up-to-date with the reading and arrive at class ready to participate.
- Use laptops only for taking notes on material covered in class OR for researching topics relating to our classroom activity.
- Keep cell phones, iPhones, Blackberries, pagers, iPods etc. switched off during class.
- Communicate with me to address any concerns or to request clarification of material we cover in class. Take as much care with your email communications as you do with written assignments. Be sure to write clearly and to proofread and edit your messages. Avoid abbreviations and other texting shortcuts. Please remember that in email messages, as in your verbal communication with your instructor, your tone should be self-possessed and respectful.
- Let me know immediately if you have any problem that is preventing you from performing satisfactorily in this course.
Academic Integrity:
The following forms of academic dishonesty are unacceptable:
- Plagiarism: The use and submission of another’s words or ideas without providing appropriate acknowledgement.
- Improper Collaboration: Inappropriate sharing of work on an assignment that was intended as an individual assignment, or students working together, beyond the degree of permissible collaboration set out by the instructor.
- Assisting Others in Dishonest Behaviour: Helping or attempting to help another person commit an act of Academic Dishonesty by providing material, information or other assistance.
Description of Plagiarism and its Penalties (from the English Department website):
The policy of the Department of English is to treat any act of plagiarism with severity. A student's ignorance of plagiarism, either in general or in any of its particular aspects, is no excuse or defense. Neither are a student's benign intentions an acceptable excuse.
Penalties can include failing the course, or a complaint to the University Disciplinary Committee. A repetition of plagiarism at any time during the student's studies in the Department is grounds for permanent dismissal from the English Department.
The following are all acts of plagiarism:
- Use of any idea or observation – whole or in part – from another book, website or person without giving credit for it to that book or person, either in the bibliography or in a footnote. If a specific idea or observation is borrowed, mere general mention in the bibliography without pinpointing the idea or place is not sufficient. Either a footnote or a parenthetical reference must be used.
- If the exact words of another source – a book, website, or person – are used, both footnotes/ parenthetical references and quotation marks around those words quoted exactly must be used. Simply giving a citation in the bibliography, or even only a footnote, even if it is precise, is not sufficient. The absence of quotation marks is also a form of plagiarism.
Although the use of a single word which another source suggests need not usually be quoted, significant phrases or clauses borrowed verbatim from another source must be identified as such. Changing a word or a few words in a sentence or paragraph, or rearranging the order of the words in a sentence or paragraph does not alter the fact that both idea and words have been taken from another source in a significant manner. The passage thus must be referred to as an item of bibliography, and all the words borrowed from the source must be put in quotation marks if plagiarism is to be avoided. - Plagiarism does not consist simply of use of the words or ideas in a published book or article. Similar use of another student's paper – in whole or part – must be treated as bibliography and, if appropriate, quoted as outlined in #2 above.
- Similarly, oral help from another person should be given similar credit either in a footnote/endnote or in the bibliography, as the case warrants. The failure to document another person's supplying or augmenting an idea or words, is also a form of plagiarism
To conclude: Read the texts, take part in the classes, do your own work and we’ll all have a wonderful time!
