| Janice Moore Fuller serves as an
English Professor and Writer-in-Residence at Catawba College.
Below are sample syllabi from
the 2001-2002 academic year:
English 3305 Creative Writing: Poetry Dr. Janice Fuller
Spring 2002 Office: 217 Ad. Bldg.
Phone: (704) 637-4351
Office Hours: MWF, 10-2,
T 1:30-3, Th 1:30-4
Texts: Creating Poetry
The Practice of Poetry
Contemporary American Poetry (seventh edition)
back issues of the Arrowhead
Goals:
1. To define poetry and achieve a heightened awareness of the way language, silence, and space work in poetry;
2. To recognize a full range of purposes and audiences for poetry;
3. To understand the nature, evolution, and power of poetry as a means of describing and shaping human experience;
4. To understand poetry as one of the most effective ways of experiencing holistically the integrated nature of human experience;
5. To experiment with a variety of stanzaic forms and poetic shapes, including free verse;
6. To make purposeful choices in writing poetry, including creating line breaks, stanzas, and titles; punctuating verse; and using various poetic figures;
7. To develop skill in revising poetry and evaluating poetry qualitatively;
8. To develop the sensitivity in reading and listening to poetry that makes one an effective responder or critic;
9. To develop a range of approaches for responding to poetry.
Graded Activities:
A Portfolio of Poetry, including at least one new poem (or attempt at a poem) or revision of a poem for each class period (All poems included in the portfolio must be typed. The portfolio will be submitted for a grade twice during the semester. The quality of the portfolio will be discussed during individual conferences during the semester.)
Portfolio = 30% of final grade
A Chapbook, presented and explained during the final exam period (The Chapbook
will include at least some of the following features: a title, a cover, purposeful
arrangement of poems, conscious arrangement of poems on the page, sections with
titles and/or epigraphs, illustrations, a foreword, an afterward.)
Chapbook = 20% of final grade
Daily assignments (including all exercises and experiments with poems)
Daily assignments = 10% of final grade
Reading log. For the reading log, students will read one poem from Contemporary American Poetry for each class and write a paragraph (minimum of 100 words) explaining in detail what they admire about the poem.
Reading log = 10% of final grade
Participation grade (including class attendance; class discussion; required attendance at 3 of 4 poetry readings—Black Cat Reading (Feb. 5), Katharine Osborne reading (Feb. 20), Black Cat Reading (Apr. 4), Rebecca McClanahan reading (Apr. 15); extra credit for participation in other opportunities, including readings, CPCC Literary Festival (Mar. 18-20), Author’s Symposium (Mar. 6); extra credit for submission of poetry to the Arrowhead and other literary magazines, and work on the Arrowhead staff).
Participation grade = 20% of final grade
Participation in writing groups (including groups meetings for 1 - 2 hours outside of class each week and four writing group reports)
Participation in groups = 10% of final grade
NOTE: Daily assignments and writing group reports will not be accepted late. The grades for the portfolio will be lowered one letter grade for each day the portfolio is late.
Seven absences during the semester, whether excused or unexcused, will automatically result in a failing grade for the course.
NOTE: Individual conferences count as classes for the purpose of the attendance policy as well as the participation grade.
General Topics and Deadlines:
Jan. 16 Introduction to course; how to become a poet
Jan. 21 Martin Luther King holiday
Jan. 23 Definitions of poetry; line breaks; voice
Jan. 28 Getting started; imitation and parody; list poems; Sharon Olds video
Jan. 30 Discovering a subject matter; the senses; guest poet
Feb. 4 Haiku; field trip
Feb. 5 Black Cat Reading (Janice Fuller), 7:30 pm, Literary Bookpost
Feb. 6 Impure subjects; eating poems; Philip Levine video
Feb. 11 Concrete language; showing and telling; object poems
Feb. 13 "Nuts and Bolts"
Feb. 18 Sight; images; metaphors; guest poet
Feb. 20 Sound; Seamus Heaney video; PORTFOLIO DUE (INCLUDING MINIMUM OF 6 NEW POEMS OR REVISIONS)
Feb. 20 Katharine Osborne poetry reading, Tom Smith Auditorium, 7:30 pm
Feb. 25 Sound
Feb. 27 FIELD TRIPS AND INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES ON PORTFOLIOS
Mar. 4 Major/minor surgery; Introduction to workshopping; COPIES OF ONE POEM DUE
Mar. 5 No class; Author’s Symposium, 11:00, Keppel Auditorium (extra credit)
SPRING BREAK
Mar. 18 No class; CPCC Literary Festival (extra credit)
Mar. 20 Workshop
Mar. 25 Masks; voices; black sheep poems; COPIES OF POEM FOR WRITING GROUP DUE; COPIES OF WORKSHOP POEM DUE
Mar. 27 Point of view; 13 ways of looking; workshop
Apr. 1 Workshop
Apr. 3 Traditional forms; guest poet; GROUP REPORT #1 DUE; COPIES OF NEW POEM DUE
Apr. 4 Black Cat Reading (Irene Honeycutt), 7:30 pm, Literary Bookpost
Apr. 8 Traditional forms
Apr. 10 Free verse; line breaks
Apr. 15 Free verse; shaping and titles; GROUP REPORT #2 DUE; COPIES OF NEW POEM DUE
Apr. 15 Rebecca McClanahan reading, Tom Smith Auditorium, 7:30 pm
Apr. 17 Family photograph poems; PORTFOLIO DUE (MINIMUM OF 6 NEW POEMS OR REVISIONS)
Apr. 22 Sources of inspiration; supernatural and unconscious
Apr. 24 Creating a chapbook; GROUP REPORT #3 AND COPIES OF NEW POEM DUE
Apr. 29 Surrealist games; publishing poetry
Apr. 29 Class Poetry Reading, Tom Smith Auditorium, 7:30 pm (required attendance)
May 1 Photojournalist poems; GROUP REPORT #4 DUE
FINAL EXAM (SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1:00-3:00)--PRESENTATION OF CHAPBOOK
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Biogeography and Literature of Islands
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SPRING 2002
BIOL 3510H,
ENGL 3360H,
HON 2903H
INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Steve Coggin
Office: 204 Shuford Science Building
Hours: MWF 10-11
Phone: 704- 637-4110
e-mail: scoggin@catawba.edu
Dr. Janice Fuller
Office: 217 Administration Building
Hours: MWF 10-12, T Th 1:30-3:00
Phone: 704-637-4351
e-mail: jfuller@catawba.edu
OBJECTIVE: To explore the parallels between literary themes and biological issues regarding islands.
GOALS: Students taking this class will
1. Examine the differences in the ways two disciples approach islands,
2. Explore the ways islands are handled in literature and discover some common themes, including negative and positive attitudes toward primitivism; views of nature as malevolent or benevolent; alienation and solitude; transformation and regeneration; insularity and incest; the diaspora and islands; islands and orality; and post-colonialism, hybridity, and cultural "authenticity,"
3. Explore the biological issues associated with islands, including islands and their role in evolutionary theory; the mechanics and consequences of life on islands; islands and conservation,
4. Allow students to experience islands first-hand from a literary and biological perspective. (This goal will be achieved through a one-week stay during Spring Break at a biological station on the island of Jamaica.)
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Hughes, R. A High Wind in Jamaica
Melville, H. Billy Budd, Sailor and other Stories
Proulx, A. The Shipping News
Shakespeare, W. The Tempest.
Quammen, D. The Song of the Dodo.
Walcott, D. Omeros.
ATTENDANCE: Attendance is expected and highly recommended.
GRADING:
1. Short written responses to readings - 4 x 2 page papers, 20%.
2. Take home questions on scientific content, 20%.
3. Journal and projects on field trip - Journal, personal reflection, conclusion - connection with larger patterns, relationship between species, habitats, ecosystems, ecological context, overall relationship with Theory of Biogeography, 25%.
4. Major paper on The Shipping News. Due final exam day, 3-5 pages, 15%
5. Participation, 20%
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES:
Jan 17 Why islands? Quotations about islands
Jan 22 Why islands? Islands and literary themes
Jan 24 Biogeography & Evolution - MacArthur and Wilson pp 3-18, Quammen pp 11-13, 139-141
Jan 29 Biogeography & Evolution - Quammen pp 385-393, 410-436
Jan 31 Biogeography & Evolution - Take-home questions
Feb 5 The Tempest - Paper due – Which literary themes? Which features of biogeography?
Feb 7 The Tempest
Feb 12 Galapagos – Darwin - Quammen pp 217-234,
Feb 14 Galapagos – Melville - Encantadas - Sketches 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, Galapagos film (paper due)
Feb 19 Galapagos - Dillard "Life on the Rocks"
Feb 21 Caribbean Poetry – Post-colonialism – Islands as sites of conquest
Feb 26 Caribbean Poetry
Feb 28 Expectations for trip
Mar 5 A High Wind in Jamaica – Paper due
Mar 7 A High Wind in Jamaica
Mar 9-16 Trip to Jamaica
Mar 19 Madagascar – Quammen – lemurs pp 501-545
Mar 21 Madagascar – Effect of humans
Mar 26 Madagascar – Oral tradition, story-telling
Mar 28 Madagascar – Angano Angano (a film)
Apr 2 Extinction – Quammen - Dodo pp 261-275
Apr 4 Extinction – Quammen - Lovejoy pp 464-487
Apr 9 Extinction - Tasmanians pp 353-381
Apr 11 Omeros - Books 1 and 2
Apr 16 Omeros - Book 3, summaries Books 4 and 5, pp 174-182, 213-219,
Book 6
Apr 18 Omeros – Book 7 - Paper due
Apr 23 The Shipping News
Apr 25 The Shipping News
Apr 29 The Shipping News
May 7 1:00-3:00 pm - Take-home exam on The Shipping News due and discussion.
English 1102: Rhetoric and Composition II
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Syllabus / Spring 2002
Instructor: Dr. Janice Fuller
Office: Administration Building 217
Telephone: 637-4351
Office Hours: MWF 10-12; T 1:30-3; TH 1:30-4
Texts: Jacobus, A World of Ideas (sixth edition); Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz, Everything’s an Argument; Troyka, Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers (5th edition); Inherit the Wind
Course Goals: The goal of this course is to enhance general writing skills and to cultivate skills in public writing. In the course, students will learn to use various means of persuading an audience and will learn to analyze and evaluate the arguments they encounter in a variety of communities, including academic ones.
Course Objectives: After successful completion of this course, students will be able to
1) Generate clear, well-organized, effective arguments using three types of persuasive strategies--logos, ethos, and pathos,
2) Analyze audiences in order to tailor arguments to their values and assumptions,
3) Develop valid reasons in support of a claim and anticipate and counter opposing reasons that may be used to refute the claim,
4) Locate, record (by quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing), and document information from a range of print and electronic sources as well as incorporate and synthesize the information into their own writing as support for a claim,
5) Recognize the types of claims presented in persuasive writing,
6) Identify the underlying assumptions and the structure of an argument, including chains of reasons, in persuasive writing,
7) Evaluate the use of logos, ethos, and pathos and recognize logical fallacies in persuasive writing,
8) Analyze a work of literature for its ideas,
9) Use an effective individualized writing process,
10) Revise their essays, using a range of strategies, including feedback elicited from peers,
11) Edit their own writing for recurring errors and demonstrate through their writing a functional mastery of the conventions of standard written English.
Course Requirements and Grading:
Unit I paper 15%
Unit II research paper 25%
Unit III paper 15%
Journal, daily grades, 15%
Class participation 15%
Final examination 15%
Grading Scale:
A 93-100
A- 90-92
B+ 88-89
B 83-87
B- 80-82
C+ 78-79
C 73-77
C- 70-72
D+ 68-69
D 63-67
D- 60-62
F Below 60
Policies for Attendance and Assignments:
Attendance:
*Students are required to attend class, bringing all necessary materials with them.
*As the catalog directs, when a student misses 10 class meetings (either excused or unexcused absences), the instructor may assign a failing grade for the course.
*Habitual lateness may result in each lateness being counted as an absence.
Excused and Unexcused Absences:
*Normally, excused absences will be granted for illness, death in the immediate family, and authorized representation of the college. Student must consult with the professor to have the absence excused.
*Excessive unexcused absences (more than three per semester) will result in a reduction of the student's participation grade.
*The student alone bears the responsibility of initiating discussions with the professor to learn what was missed when he or she was absent.
Late and Missed Assignments:
*In-class work may not usually be made up.
*The grade for any late assignment is lowered one letter grade for each week day that the assignment is late. (Assignments are due at the beginning of the class period.)
Southern Women Writers on Film
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English 3360H Spring 2001
Honors 13503H Instructors: Dr. James Epperson, Dr.
Janice Fuller
MF, 1-1:50
W, 1-3
Required Texts: The Member of the Wedding, Rich in Love, The Golden Apples, Three by Flannery O’Connor, The Color Purple, In Country
Course Description:
The course will examine the works of 20th Century Southern women, focusing on the literary
features evident in the works and the ways those features are transformed as the works are
adapted for film. The course will consider Southern female fiction writers and the ways their
works present the South and rely on Southern literary traditions and conventions. It will
also consider how film adaptation alters these works, their literary features, and their
portrayals of Southern experience.
Course Objectives:
1. To test the validity of various definitions of Southern writers and Southern women writers,
2. To apply these definitions to specific Southern novels and short stories,
3. To understand the differences between the structure of fiction and the text and form of film,
4. To appreciate the choices a screenwriter must make in adapting a work of fiction to the film medium,
5. To consider the effects of the adaptation process on the Southernness of a work.
Course Requirements:
1. Six one- to two-page papers on a novel or short story. (Each paper will explore which features of Southern women writers the novel or short story exhibits. It will also examine similarities between the novel or short story and other works discusses in the course.) Papers=25% of course grade
2. Six one- to two-page papers on a film adaptation. Papers=25% of course grade
3. An 8- to 10-page paper describing a plan for adapting to film one or more of the short stories in Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples. Paper=25% of course grade
4. Take-home final exam (three to five pages in length) arguing whether or not The Accidental Tourist is a Southern work. Exam=15% of course grade
5. Participation=10% of course grade
Extra credit will be awarded for attendance at the Black Cat Readings, the Gail Godwin reading, and the Central Piedmont Community College Literary Festival.
Note: Class attendance is essential to success in this course.
Schedule of Classes:
Jan. 17 - brief Southern biographies written in class; tentative definitions of Southern
Jan. 19 - definitions of Southern women writers
Read: excerpts from The Female Tradition in Southern Literature and Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens
Jan. 22 - more definitions of Southern women writers
Read: excerpts from Dirt and Desire
Jan. 24 - Lucinda Williams’s music and features of Southern women writers; introduction to Carson McCullers
Read: “Delta Nights”
Jan. 26 - discussion of Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding
Read: all of The Member of the Wedding
Due: paper on the novel
Jan. 29 - discussion of The Member of the Wedding
Jan. 31 - discussion of “The Film Text and Film Form”; showing of the film The Member of the Wedding
Read: “The Film Text and Film Form”
Feb. 1 - Black Cat Reading: Keith Flynn, 7:30, Literary Bookpost (extra credit)
Feb. 2 - discussion of the film
Due: paper on the film
Feb. 5 - discussion of the film
Feb. 7 - discussion of Josephine Humphreys’s Rich in Love
Read: all of Rich in Love
Due: paper on the novel
Feb. 9 - discussion of Rich in Love
Feb. 12 - Josephine Humphreys reading from and discussing Rich in Love followed by showing of film Rich in Love, all in Tom Smith Auditorium
Feb. 14 - discussion of the film; introduction to Eudora Welty
Due: paper on the film
Feb. 16 - discussion of “Shower of Gold” and “June Recital” from Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples
Read: “Shower of Gold” and “June Recital”
Feb. 19 - discussion of “Sir Rabbit” and “Moon Lake”
Read: “Sir Rabbit” and “Moon Lake”
Feb. 21 - discussion of “The Wanderers”; introduction to Flannery O’Connor
Read: “The Wanderers”
Feb. 23 - discussion of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
Read: introduction to The Christ-Haunted Landscape and all of Wise Blood
Due: paper on the novel
Feb. 26 - discussion of Wise Blood
Feb. 28 - showing of the film Wise Blood
Mar. 2 -discussion of the film
Due: paper on the film
Mar. 1 - Black Cat Reading: Tony Abbott, 7:30, Literary Bookpost (extra credit)
Mar. 5 - discussion of Doris Betts’s “The Ugliest Pilgrim”
Read: “The Ugliest Pilgrim”
Due: paper on the short story
Mar. 7 - showing of the film Violet (an adaptation of “The Ugliest Pilgrim”)
Mar. 9 - discussion of the film
Due: paper on the film
Mar. 19 - discussion of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Read: all of The Color Purple
Due: paper on the novel
Mar. 21 - Gail Godwin reading at 11:00 in Keppel Auditorium (extra credit)
No regular class
Mar. 23 - discussion of The Color Purple
Read: essays by Alice Walker (TBA)
Mar. 26 - Central Piedmont Community College Literary Festival (extra credit)
No regular class
Mar. 28 - showing of the film The Color Purple
Mar. 30 - discussion of the film
Due: paper on the film
Apr. 2 - discussion of the film
Apr. 4 - conferences on film adaptations of short stories from The Golden Apples
Apr. 5 - Black Cat Reading: Debbie Daniel and Phillip Gardner, 7:30, Literary Bookpost (extra credit)
Apr. 6 - discussion of Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country
Read: all of In Country
Due: paper on the novel
Apr. 9 - discussion of In Country
Apr. 11 - showing of the film In Country
Apr. 13 - Easter break
Apr. 16 - discussion of the film
Due: paper on the film
Apr. 18 - discussion of the film
April 19-20 - individual conferences on papers on film adaptation
Apr. 20 - No regular class
Apr. 23 - presentations about film adaptations of stories from The Golden Apples
Due: papers on film adaptations
Apr. 25 - presentations
Apr. 27 - presentations
Apr. 30 - course evaluation; explanation of exam
Read: excerpts from The Accidental Tourist
May 2 - showing of the film The Accidental Tourist
Final exam discussion of take-home exams on The Accidental Tourist
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