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WELCOME TO ENGLISH 102!

Section # 1275 Professor: Kristina Yegoryan, MAFALL 2015 Email: lavc_yegoryan@yahoo.comClass Location: BJ (Business Journalism) 103 yegoryk@lavc.eduClass Day/Time: Mon./Wed. 9:40am-11:05am Office: LARC 229 Course Web: http://english102lavcfall15.weebly.com/ Office hours: Mon. 12-1 and 3-4 Tue.12-2

Walk in 5-10m /by appointments 20-30m

Course Description and Requirements

English 102, Reading and Composition II, is designed to prepare you to analyze, interpret, and evaluate poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. You will learn about historical evolution of literature, major movements influential for the study of literature, literary theory, and you will be able to read critically and apply your theoretical knowledge to analyze and evaluate different forms of literature.

Prerequisite: Appropriate skill level demonstrated through the Englishplacement process or satisfactory completion of English 101 with a gradeof C or better. This course cannot be taken for Pass/No Pass.

Required Texts and Materials:

Course Reading Books:

1. Title: Poststructuralism (A Very Short Introduction) Author: Catherine Belsey Publication Info: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0-19-280180-7 Available at LAVC Bookstore and at Amazon.com

2. Title: Slow Man Author: J.M. Coetzee Publication Info: Penguin Books, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-14-303789 Available at LAVC Bookstore and at Amazon.com

3. Title: Sweet Machine Author: Mark Doty Publication Info: HarperCollins Publication 1998. ISBN: 0-06-095256-3 Available at LAVC Bookstore and at Amazon.com

4. You also need to read: Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” (tragedy) Laura Bohannan’s “Shakespeare in the Bush” (scholar article)

is on the course web/PowerPoint section Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (book or the movie) Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (short story) is on the course web/PowerPoint section

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You will also consider other assigned readings, videos/Ted speeches posted on the class web Movies

You will need to watch a min of 2 movies from this list for critical analysis

Jane Champion’s “ The Piano” Danny Boyle’s “ Trance” 2013 British psychological thriller  Christopher Nolan’s “ The Prestige” Gary Ross’ movie (or novel by Suzanne Collins) “The Hunger Games” James McTeigue’s “V for Vendetta” Neil Burger Neil Burger’s (or trilogy fiction by Veronica Roth ) “Divergent”

Student Learning Outcome As a result of completing this course:

1. students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate various forms of literature.

2. students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and evaluate forms of literary criticism, looking at a given work from several critical perspectives.

Course Objectives/Students ExpectationsWill be determined with students on the first day of class! Each student writes his/her expectations for this course.

Academic Calendar LAVC Fall 20158/31/15 – 12/20/15

Important days and Holidays

9/11: Last day to Add 9/13: Drop w/o ‘W’ 9/7: Labor Day 9/11: Veteran’s Day11/22: Drop w “W”11/26-29: Thanksgiving

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12/14-20: Finals THE OUTLINE OF THE COURSE

Literature: What is literature? Why is it important? The purpose of literature. What is literature and what is not? Noble Prize for Literature

Genres of Literature Tragedy / Comedy/ Tragycomedy Satire/ Drama / Romance / Epic

Major Forms that we will read/consider during this course Poetry

Novel Short Story Play (Scholarly article)

Important Historical Periods Beginning of Literature Old and Middle English Renaissance

Elzabethan era (16th cent.) / Shakespearean era Restoration Period (17th cent) / Age of Enlightenment (18th cent.)

Romanticism (early 19th cent.) / Victorian era (late 19th cent.) Modernism/PostModernism (20th century)

Important Intellectual Movements influencial for the study of literature Femenism Postcolonialism Post-structualism and Post-moderism Romanticism

Literary Theory/ Theoretical schools and Critical Readings Russian Formalism vs New Criticism

Structualism: sign/signifier and signified: Ferdinand de Saussure Sense, Sensation, and Meaning: Julia Kristeva Deconstruction and Dialectcs: Jacques Derrida

Author’s intent: Roland Barthes, Ian Barnard Ideology, Myth, and Power: Marx, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault

Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan Gender Writing Rhetoric, Reading/Writing Conection Literary Terms

Course AssignmentsPresentationsIn-class individual and group assignments3 Poem AnalysisQuizes on the assigned readingsMid-TermFinal Paper