English
120: Introduction to the English Major
Communications
- Updates (homework, announcements, etc.)
Course Materials
- Syllabus
- Course Policies and Syllabus Addenda
- Course Reader (contents under constant revision; login and password are on the print copy of your syllabus; e-mail me if you've mislaid it)
- Moodle (where you'll submit your IWAs)
- Major Assignments:
- IWAs (Informal Writing Assignments)
- The "Lycidas" Project
- The Ballad Project
- Annotated Rye: Scrutinizing Sources as a New Historicist
- A Catcher's Toolkit (see also the Course Reader)
- Historicizing Catcher: Texts and Contexts (Final Project)
Other
- General Reference Links for English Studies
L: Alexander Pope (1688-1744) | R: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
"[H]istory does not just provide a background to the study of texts, but forms an essential part of textual meaning; conversely, texts or representations have to be seen as fundamental to the creation of history and culture."
--Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism