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Lit and Visual Culture
Lit and Visual Culture
BTAN22002BA
Fall semester, 2015
The essays will not be evaluated on the basis of what your tutor’s position
is in a certain issue, so feel free to elaborate your own ideas—but do it in a
sophisticated way.
If the percentage for the essay and the end-term does not add up to 50%,
the final grade cannot be achieved, the course is failed.
Neither in-class essays, nor end-term tests can be rewritten. If the essay is
two short, or too badly written, and receives a very low percentage, the
student will have to write a very good end-term test in order to get a
grade for the course. Unlike exams, both the essay and the end-term
assess how students have been studying during the entire semester. If the
mark for the essay and the end-term does not add up to 50 %, the final
grade for the course will be 1. Only vocabulary tests can be rewritten, as it
is described above.
GRADING POLICY
Overall Grade
percentag s
e
87-100% 5
75-86% 4
63-74% 3
51-62% 2
0-50 % 1
(N.B. NO GRADE CAN BE OBTAINED UNLESS ALL THE COURSE
COMPONENTS ARE FULFILLED)
Setting
James Joyce: “Araby”*
“The Gunfighter” (short film)
4 05/06 Narration
Oct
How I Met Your Mother: “The Goat,” “How I Met Everyone
Else,” “Last Cigarette Ever”
Selected news stories
5 12/13 Irony
Oct
David Sedaris: “Us & Them,” “Remembering My
Childhood on the Continent of Africa”
6 19/20 Introduction to Gender Studies
Oct
Caitlin Moran: How to Be a Woman (excerpt)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
7 26/27 Consultation Week. (No class)
Oct
8 02/03 IN-CLASS ESSAY
Nov
Texts marked with an * can be found in Kennedy’s Fiction. The rest of the
material will be made available online.