ù College of the Canyons English 280: Women’s Literature ù Tues/Thurs 11:00am-12:20pm BONH (Bonelli Hall) 309 Instructor: Rebecca Chmiel, MSc

ù Contact Information ù

: By website: rebeccachmiel.weebly.com 6 Office Hours: Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:30 pm

. By email: Rebecca.Chmiel@canyons.edu P 1:1 appointment: By request

ù Course Materials ù

Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek (translated by Martin Chalmers)

Printed copies of additional readings

Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa

E-portfolio at Pathbrite

ù English 280 Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives ù

Course Description: Surveys literature written by women from diverse cultural backgrounds throughout various literary periods.

By the end of this semester, students will be able to:

1. Appraise the contributions and relevance of women’s literature. 2. Apply multiple perspectives to analyze and interpret women’s literature.

Specific objectives include: v Analyze an author’s use of

diction, tone, setting, character, figurative language, and other elements of fiction, poetry, or drama and relate those elements to the theme and the literary and/or social/historical context of a given work;

v Compare and contrast two or more writing styles of women authors;

v Analyze authors, their works, the chief characteristics of their writing, and their relationships to the literary period;

v Compare and contrast literary works across historical periods;

v Assess the insights of a literary theme; v Prepare a close reading of a dramatic,

fictional, or poetic passage.

* Disclaimer: This semester, you will be reading works that include controversial language and ideas. These ideas include issues surrounding religion, race, gender, sex, violence, and more. By remaining in the course, you agree to read and attempt to understand all required texts. Reading critically does not mean that you agree with everything you read. In addition, you agree to discuss them respectfully with your instructor and classmates.

ù Attendance and Lateness Policy ù College of the Canyon’s attendance policy is very clear. It states that “Students are expected to attend class on a regular basis… Any student absent for any reason, for more than one time than that class meets in one week, may be dropped from the class, providing the withdrawal deadline for the semester/ term has not passed.” Attendance will

be recorded in the first 5 minutes of class and coming late is counted as half an absence. You cannot pass this class without attending class regularly because we do things in class designed to help build your understanding.

ù English 280 Information and Policies ù

Background: Throughout this course we will be reading works by and about women. The primary focus we have is to build critical thinking skills through connecting with the things we read and applying them to real life issues. Additionally, students of all genders are welcome in English 280! The course will include criticisms and analyses of patriarchal systems, but it isn’t a class about hating men. Finally, the works we read will be challenging for a multitude of reasons that range from the style of the writing to the ideas that the writing is responding to. Please feel free to come see me during office hours or make an appointment whenever you wish. Believe it or not, I’m personally invested in your successes as well.

Course Philosophy: It basically boils down to two key ideas. The first is that anyone is capable of becoming a great reader or writer with enough effort; the second is that people learn in different ways and no one way of learning is better or more desirable than another. You will see these ideas in the assignments you receive as well as the activities we do in class. You can all be successful in this class, and in writing, but you have to do the work. If you find that you’re struggling with writing assignments, please reach out to me or get help from The Learning Center. Course Format: This class will not be dominated by lectures because it is a course designed to help you improve your reading, writing, and thinking skills in reference to women’s literature. Rather than lectures, we will primarily do activities that require your participation. This implies that a) without having completed the assigned reading ahead of time you may not be able to adequately contribute, and b) that you need to be prepared and willing to work with your classmates. However, it also means that you have to be present. Being present can be difficult when texts, Facebook messages, pictures of that party last night, and other things pop up, which is why you are not allowed to have you cell phone out in class. If there is an extenuating circumstance where you really need to be near your phone, please let me know ahead of time.

Technology: Technology will be an integral part of improving the overall class experience. You should be checking your email regularly, staying on top of changes to the class website, downloading/printing online materials, updating your Pathbrite as much as you need to, and submitting typed assignments. In class you may bring a laptop or tablet but you can only use it for class-related things. If you abuse your laptop/tablet, you’ll lose your chance to use it!

Email: Please do not email me class work unless you have been explicitly instructed to as I won’t consider it submitted. Email should be used for questions, to arrange appointments, and to communicate information you’d like me to have

immediately. The college’s email policy requires that all our email communications take place through the college’s server, which means that you must use your My Canyons email account.

Academic Integrity: VIOLATIONS OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to, the following actions: cheating on an exam, plagiarism, working together on an assignment, paper or project when the instructor has specifically stated students should not do so, submitting the same term paper to more than one instructor, or allowing another individual to assume one's identity for the purpose of enhancing one's grade.We will briefly discuss plagiarism and correct citations in class. It is your responsibility to review notes/resources about citation, visit the TLC, and ask questions before an assignment is due. Any student who submits work in violation will be reported to the Dean. Be sure to review the college’s official academic integrity polity, which is located on the last page of the syllabus.Any and all cases of confirmed plagiarism will receive a 0% for the assignment and may be cause for removal from class.

Disabilities and Accommodations: Our college is committed to creating a learning environment that meets the needs of its diverse student body. If you anticipate or experience any barriers to learning, discuss your concerns with me. In addition to

speaking with me, the following resources are available to ensure an opportunity to learn in an inclusive environment that values mutual respect. To learn more about accommodations, visit DSPS in Seco Hall, 103, use their phone number (661) 362-3341/ TTY: (661) 362-3726 or website: http://www.canyons.edu/offices/dsps/

ù Course Requirements and Grading ù Assignment Formatting and Submissions: Submit all assignments in MLA format. MLA format guides can be found online, in Rules for Writers, and in MLA handbooks. Always use 12 pt. Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and double-spacing. Include the submission date, your name and student ID, and other necessary identifying information. Your work must be submitted in class in hardcopy form but may also be requested in electronic form. The ASG computer lab (Student Center 124 and CCC 204) provides 15 pages of free printing every day for students.

Grading Formula:

Ø 15 Reading Responses………………….....150 pts. Ø 4 Student Choice Assignments……………100 pts. Ø 6 Literary Criticism Summary/ Responses....90 pts. Ø 1 Oral Report……………………………...50 pts. Ø E-Portfolio………………………………...150 pts.

Ø Unit 1 Paper……………………………….120 pts. Ø Unit 2 Paper……………………………….160 pts. Ø Unit 3 Paper……………………………….200 pts. Ø 2 Peer Reviews……………………………..30 pts. Ø Final Exam……………………………........150 pts.

*To earn an A (90%) you must have 1,080+ points. To earn a B (80%), you must have 960 points. To earn a C (70%), you need 840 points, and a D (60%) will be given for 720-600 points. Under 600 points will be an F.

**Please note: I very rarely round grades up. In the case of students who are within rounding areas, I will reflect on overall effort and growth throughout the course to decide whether to round up or not.

Making Up Work: You will not be able to make up in-class activities, quizzes, or oral reports that you are absent for barring a very, very good reason. The only way to be receive an opportunity for making it up is if you have a doctor’s note for the day of the class that shows a valid reason. Ear aches and upset tummies aren’t good enough.

Late Assignments: Due dates for each assignment will be delivered alongside the assignment. Should you require an extension you must request one before the deadline. Work that is not submitted within 10 minutes of class starting will be counted as late. All late work will be penalized 1 letter grade (10%) for each class day late. If you must miss a class on the day something is due, you should let me know ASAP so we can arrange a mutually acceptable submission date.

ù Important Dates ù

Week 4, 9/13: Unit 1 Essay Due Week 10, 10/25: Unit 2 Essay Due Week 14, 11/24: Thanksgiving; No Class! Weeks 13-14: Oral Reports Week 16, 12/6: Unit 3 Essay Due Week 16, 12/6: Finalized E-Portfolio Due Week 16, 12/8: English 101 Final Exam

ù Course Schedule ù

As with all things in life, this syllabus IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Date Schedule Check when done

8/23 In this class: Course Introduction, Getting to Know You, Syllabus Review, Course Expectations For the next class:

Take Multiple Intelligence test Print article for next day’s class

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8/25 In this class: MI test results, Close Reading Skills, e-Portfolio, Oral Report For the next class: Print and Read (P&R) extract from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and “Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Liễu Hạnh in Vietnamese History”

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Unit 1: Traditions and The History of Women 8/30 In this class: Women’s Roles in Ancient Times

For the next class: P&R extract from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, “Masculinity in the New Testament and Early Christianity”, and “Mummy of Tattooed Woman Discovered in Peru Pyramid” Complete reading response entry

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9/1 In this class: Gender Performativity in Different Cultures For the next class: P&R Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “The Queen of the Pigeons” Complete reading response entry

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9/6 In this class: Medieval Times and Women; A Look at Fairy Tales For the next class: P&R “Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife”, “Fain Would I Wed”, “Bluebeard”, and “Speech to the Troops at Tillbury Complete reading response entry

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¨ 9/8 In this class: Elizabethan England and Women

For the next class: P&R “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”, and “Ain’t I A Woman?” Complete reading response entry Complete ‘Nature vs. Nurture’ literary criticism summary/ response

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Unit 2: The Rise of the Woman (Writer) 9/13 In this class: Unit 1 Essay Due; The “Woman Question”

For the next class: P&R “Feminist Criticism” Part 1, Excerpt from Frankenstein, “Defining the Canon”, and “Infection is in the Sentence” Complete reading response

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9/15 In this class: The Rise of the Woman Writer: The Issue of Canon 1 For the next class: P&R “Feminist Criticism” Part 2, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, and “Canons to the Left of Us, Canons to the Right” Complete reading response

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9/20 In this class: The Madwoman Thesis and The Issue of Canon 2 For the next class: P&R “I Stand Here Ironing”, “The Story of an Hour”, Excerpt from “The Rise of the Domestic Woman” and “Professions for Women” Complete reading response

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¨ 9/22 In this class: The Angel in the House

For the next class: P&R “Marxist Criticism” Part 1, “Girl”, “Everyday Use”, “Two Kinds” and “I Want a Wife” Complete reading response Complete ‘The Canon’ Literary Criticism Summary/ Response

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9/27 In this class: Race and Heritage in America For the next class: P&R “Marxism Criticism” Part 2, “Lisbeth”, and “Post-colonialism”

¨ ¨ ¨ 9/29 In this class: Preparing to Read Cracking India

For the next class: Read chapters 1-8 Cracking India Complete ‘The Canon’ Literary Criticism Summary/ Response

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10/4 In this class: Analyzing Cracking India 1 For the next class: Read chapters 9-18 Cracking India

¨ 10/6 In this class: Analyzing Cracking India 2

For the next class: Read chapters 19-25 Cracking India

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10/11 In this class: Analyzing Cracking India 3 For the next class: Read chapters 25-end Cracking India

¨ 10/13 In this class: Analyzing Cracking India 4

For the next class: P&R “Bending Bodies, Borders, and Desires” and Excerpt from “Of ‘Other’ Histories” Complete reading response Complete Literary Criticism Summary/ Response

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10/18 In this class: Discussing Critical Ideas about Cracking India For the next class: Print a draft and rubric to bring to class

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10/20 In this class: Peer Review Process For the next class: P&R “The Lottery” and “Psychanalysis” Part 1 Complete reading response Complete ‘Post-Colonialism’ Literary Criticism Summary/ Response

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Unit 3: Writing Back 10/25 In this class: Unit 2 Essay Due; Writing Back!

P&R “Cassandra”, “When I Was Ms. Dow”, “The Sex Which is Not One”, and “Psychoanalysis” Part 2 Complete reading response

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10/27 In this class: The ‘Woman Question’ Continues For the next class: P&R “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Greedy Choke Puppy” Complete reading response

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11/1 In this class: Rethinking What It Means to be a Woman: Subverting Expectations For the next class: P&R “The Chrysanthemums”, “A Woman on a Roof”, and “Psychoanalysis” Part 3 Complete reading response

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11/3 In this class: The Female Body Part 1 For the next class: P&R “The Goblin Market”, “Fleur”, and “Rape Fantasies” Complete reading response

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11/8 In this class: The Female Body Part 2 For the next class: P&R “Riding the Red”, “Once Upon a Time”, and Angela Carter’s 3 wolf stories Complete reading response

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¨ 11/10 In this class: Rethinking What It Means to be a Woman: Subverting Traditions

For the next class: Read Women as Lovers pgs 1-34 Complete ‘Psychoanalysis’ Literary Criticism Summary/ Response

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11/15 In this class: Women as Lovers P.1 For the next class: Read Women as Lovers pgs 34-104

¨ 11/17 In this class: Women as Lovers P. 2

For the next class: Read Women as Lovers pgs 104-138

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11/22 In this class: Women as Lovers P. 3 For the next class: Read Women as Lovers pgs 138-end Print a draft and rubric for peer review

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11/24 Thanksgiving- No Class!!! 11/29 In this class: Women as Lovers P. 4; Peer Review

For the next class: Check that e-Portfolio is completed Complete ‘Marxism’ Literary Criticism Summary/ Response

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12/1 In this class: Oral Reports For the next class: E-portfolio finalized and completed

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12/6 In this class: Finals Prep; E-Portfolio Due; Essay #3 Due For the next class: Study for the final

12/8 FINAL EXAM!!! DON’T BE LATE!!!!

COC Statement and Policy on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Approved by Academic Senate in May, 2010

Students are expected to do their own work as assigned. At College of the Canyons, we believe that academic integrity and honesty are some of the most important qualities college students need to develop and maintain. To facilitate a culture of academic integrity, College of the Canyons has defined plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Due process procedures have been established when plagiarism or academic dishonesty is suspected. At COC, we define plagiarism as follows: Plagiarism is the submission of someone else’s work or ideas as one’s own, without adequate attribution. When a student submits work for a class assignment that includes the words, ideas or data of others, without acknowledging the source of the information through complete, accurate, and specific references, plagiarism is involved. This may include dual submissions of a similar work for credit for more than one class, without the current instructor’s knowledge and approval. To be specific, below are some of the situations that will be considered plagiarism at COC:

v Use information from any source, online or in print, in one’s own writing without acknowledging the source in the content and in the reference page of the assignment;

v Simply list the sources in the reference page, without parenthetical citations in the body of the essay; v Take more than one printed line of words consecutively from the source without putting quotation marks

around them, even though the student has put the author’s name in the parentheses or in the reference page; v Turn in work done for other classes, regardless how big or small the assignment may be, without the current

instructor’s approval—this is considered “self-plagiarism,” which is a form of academic dishonesty; or, v Turn in work by another student, even by accident.

In addition, COC has strict rules against using electronic devices during exams without the instructor’s approval. To be specific, absolutely no cell phones or any electronic devices can be on the desk or in sight during test or exam without the instructor’s approval. The presence of electronic devices in sight during exams may be considered as intention to cheat and will be processed as a form of academic dishonesty. Cases of alleged academic dishonesty, such as plagiarism or cheating, will be referred to the Dean of Student Services for investigation.