Survey of American Literature II

2014/2015

Syllabus

Instructors:
dr.sc. Biljana Oklopi
biljana.oklopcic@gmail.com
Denis Kuzmanovi
denis.kuzmanovic@gmail.com
Office Hours:
Texts:

To be announced or by appointment

Anthology of American Literature, volume II, eighth edition

Week 15 End-term exam

Course Requirements
Students are required
to attend lectures and classes regularly
to be punctual because you will be given pop quizzes at
the beginning of the class
to read all the required material for the designated class
to participate in the tutorials
to hand in their OWN work on time

Reading Assignments
Week 1 Introduction

Grading Policy

Week 2
Whitman, Song of Myself, Song of the Open
Road, Chanting the

89-100%
76-88.9%
70-75.9%
63-69.9%
55-62.9% D
Below 55% F

Square Deific, O Captain, My Captain

Week 3 Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper; Anderson, Godliness
Week 4 Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, London,
The Law of Life
Week 5

Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Week 6

Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Week 7

Midterm exam

Week 8

Pound, Selected Poetry, Eliot, The Wasteland

Week 9

Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Week 10

Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Week 11

Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Week 12

Kerouac, Ginsberg, Snyder, Selected Poetry

Week 13 Plath, Sexton, Rich, Selected Poetry

Week 14

Roth, Everyman

A
B
C
C

Your grade will consist of the following component (single majors):

class participation: 20%

essay: 30%
mid-term exam 25% + end-of-term exam 25% OR
comprehensive written exam 50%

Your grade will consist of the following component (double majors):

class participation: 20%

mid-term exam 40% + end-of-term exam 40% OR
comprehensive written exam 80%