A Brief Handbook. This course aims at encouraging students to explore and appreciate a variety of literary genres, such as the short story, the poem, the play, and the novel. So we will read and discuss a wide variety of literary texts, with special emphasis on the technical language commonly used in literary criticism, such as narration, point of view, setting, symbolism, etc. Also in our discussions of these texts, we will pay special attention to the kinds of social values that they represent. Major Assignments 1.
Attendance is absolutely mandatory.
Three unexcused absences will make your total grade for the semester automatically drop by one letter grade. And each unexcused absence that will follow will cost you 10 points. This means that you will fail the course automatically if you miss eight classes, no matter what grades you will earn for your papers. Also if and when you miss a class, you are entirely responsible for getting information from your classmates in order to catch up with the rest of the class. Because I will be taking attendance at the beginning of every class period, you must be on time for class.