Papers received after the due date will be docked one letter grade for each succeeding class meeting. Plagiarism is a major breach of the responsibility of students and scholars and is unacceptable in any community of learning. If a student is found to have cheated on a test or plagiarized written work, he or she will automatically fail the course. Grades will be based on the quality of the work submitted, with consideration being given to improvement throughout the semester and to participation in class. The grade you receive will be my judgment of how well you meet these criteria.
Regular attendance is essential to success in the course.
Because both faculty and students find late-comers distracting, make every effort to be on time. For many of you, this will be the last literature course you will ever take. For this reason, it is important that your interest in and understanding of literature be expanded by this course. I assume that you studied a significant amount of both poetry and drama before entering college. In this class we want to build on that experience, the goal being to make you a lifelong lover of literature in its various forms, to enhance your understanding of literature as one of the indispensable treasure of a liberal education.