English 5H F2001 Syllabus Sept. 4: course introduction Sept. 6: Homer, Odyssey, Books 1, 8, and 9. See Odyssey reading notes in the back of the Fagles translation AND PS’s reading notes for these specific Books, linked to the English 5H web-page. Sept. 11: Odyssey, Books 10+11. See Odyssey reading notes for these Books, linked to the Engl5Hweb-page. Sept. 13: Odyssey, Books 18+19.. See Odyssey reading notes for these Books. Sept. 14 (Friday): first short paper due, 2pp., questions, observations, and commentary on a short passage of your own choosing from the Odyssey. LPAC 206, 5pm. Sept. 18: Odyssey, Books 20+21. See Odyssey reading notes for these Books. Sept. 20: Odyssey, Books 22+23. See Odyssey reading notes for these Books. in-class handout: “In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World” book review [xerox]. Sept. 24 (Monday): (optional) view movie Ghost Dog, 7:30pm, place TBA. [This movie is optional due to violence.] Sept. 25: discuss Ghost Dog and “In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World” book review xerox; ALSO, Odyssey paper due in class, 4-5pp. Include a Works Cited giving full bibliographic info on your Odyssey edition. Sept. 27: Charles Johnson, Middle Passage, Entries 1-3 Oct. 2: Middle Passage, Entries 4-6 Oct. 4: Middle Passage, Entries 7-9 Oct. 9: concluding discussion of Middle Passage; second 2pp. paper due in class, on a passage from the Johnson novel Oct. 11: Arabian Nights, Prologue [the story of Kings Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier’s Daughter; Tales of the Ox and Donkey and the Merchant and his Wife]. in-class handout: “Shahrazhad in the West” book review. FALL BREAK Oct. 23: Arabian Nights, Shahrazad’s tales (finish selected readings); discuss “Sharazhad in the West” book review xerox. Oct. 25: Arabian Nights conclusions; discuss Pandora; Le Guin, Always Coming Home readings #1 (see Pandora link and Le Guin reading assignments) Also of interest: an interview with Le Guin; plus a book review of Always Coming Home by Danny Yee Oct. 30: Always Coming Home readings #2 Nov. 1: Always Coming Home readings #3 Nov. 6: Always Coming Home readings #4 (students select their own passages to read). Due in class: creative writing assignment on Always Coming Home, to be discussed & read aloud Nov. 8: Oscar Wilde, “...Instructions to the Over-Educated” and “The Critic as Artist: A Dialogue,” Part I Nov. 13: Wilde, “The Critic as Artist: A Dialogue,” Part II Nov. 15: Wilde, Dorian Gray, “Preface” and chs. I-IV Nov. 20: Dorian Gray, chs. V-XII. Nov. 22: Thanksgiving; no class Nov. 27: Dorian Gray, chs. XIII-XX Nov. 29: Wilde, conclusions. Nov. 30 (Friday): second longer paper due, 5-6pp., on Johnson, Arabian Nights, Le Guin, OR Wilde. Include a Works Cited giving full bibliographic info. 5pm, LPAC 206. Dec. 4: Steve Martin, Patter for the Floating Lady Dec. 6: Steve Martin: Picasso at the Lapin Agile: student-led performance and discussion groups Dec. 11: Steve Martin: Picasso at the Lapin Agile: student-led performance and discussion groups, continued; conclusion to course Dec. 17 [Monday]: final longer paper due, 4-6pp. double-spaced, plus a Works Cited. You may discuss a work not yet covered by a longer paper. Or you may write a comparative paper, so long as you discuss the topic with me ahead of time. If your comparative paper considers work(s) on which you’ve already written. use different evidence and make new points. Due LPAC 206, 5pm. Final exam: date and format to be announced ahead of time

		English 5H Requirements • Regular attendance: more than 3 unexcused absences over the course of the semester will hurt your grade. To get an excused absence (sickness, family emergency, etc.) you need to get a note from the Health Center and/or the Dean’s office; please try to let me know ahead of time through yourself or a friend if you know you’ll miss class. • Come to class having studied the readings and other materials assigned for that day and thought of particular issues and passages you’d like to focus on • Participation in class discussions and other class activities, including listserv discussions prior to class (see below). • Completion of writing assignments on time. Late papers and other writing will be penalized. Completion of any assigned revisions to papers may also part of the course requirements. Assigned writing for English 5H will mostly be of three kinds: class list-serv discussions. each student is required to post a substantive comment on the assigned reading for English 5H on the class list-serv at least once a week. Postings may be responses to other comments or autonomous opinions and observations. Class members use list-serv lists in their regular email programs; no passwords are needed. Send to wisp@swarthmore.edu the following request in the body of the email, not the subject-line: english5h@swarthmore.edu [.] Then check your mail again and the updated discussion archive for the class should be downloaded to yur email program. Note: replies to classlist messages will be sent to the entire class. 3 short papers, some exchanged with classmates and commented upon in writing. Due dates are on syllabus. 3 papers of medium length (~4-6pp), double-spaced, due on the dates indicated on syllabus. There will also be an open-book 3-hour Final Exam scheduled by the Registrar • Grading: Quality of class participation counts 25%; Final Exam 25%; Papers 50% (the papers will count the most here but I will also evaluate your other writing). Poor attendance and class participation and late papers will negatively affect your grade, just as poor written work will. Clear improvement in your writing over the course of the semester will help your final grade, as will thoughtful class participation.

		A note about academic honesty and plagiarism: All writing that you turn in for this English class should be yours alone and done solely for this course. When you are borrowing ideas and language from others it is your responsibility to acknowledge these sources accurately; anything less constitutes plagiarism and severe penalties may be involved (including flunking the course and suspension for a semester)—regardless of whether you “intended” to plagiarize or not. For more information, see the Swarthmore English Literature Department’s Web Page: (www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/english). Students should also consult the Swarthmore College Student Handbook’s section on Academic Freedom, Responsibility, and Misconduct, relevant for all your classes at Swarthmore. Plagiarism penalties do not mean you should be afraid of consulting with others (a Writing Center person, fellow students, me) or of borrowing good ideas from others: it is very simple to acknowledge these with a “thank you” at the end of a paper, or a footnote and a bibliography. I will be happy to confer with you about any issues involving citing sources or plagiarism if you have questions. English 5H will not emphasize or require extensive reading and citing of secondary sources; our main focus will be on the primary sources on the syllabus and emphasizing how to quote and cite effectively these sources as you discuss them. Skills To Be Emphasized in English 5H Include: Discussion skills: • how to ask better questions • arguing with others fairly: making distinctions and supporting your claims • supporting others: making connections and finding common ground • leading discussion: how to use your own ideas to help others discover theirs Writing skills: • how to move from a hypothesis to a thesis • handling evidence (being more thorough and more skeptical and more detailed in your arguments; learning how to use quoted evidence most effectively, especially guiding a reader through a quotation rather than merely presenting it) • using counterarguments and other rhetorical skills • improving grammar, syntax, vocabulary, paragraph structure, and organization • revision skills • how to do basic page and bibliographic citations for written work in the Humanities FURTHER HELP WITH WRITING ASSIGNMENTS FOR ALL YOUR CLASSES MAY BE AVAILABLE AT THE WRITING CENTER IN THE FIRST FLOOR OF TROTTER. IT IS STAFFED BY TRAINED STUDENTS.

		English 5H / PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST / Schmidt TTh 11:30-12:35 Fall 2001 BOOKORDER The Odyssey by Robert Fagles Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction) List Price: $14.95 Paperback - 541 pages 1 edition (November 29, 1999) Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140268863 NOTE: PLEASE PURCHASE THIS TRANSLATION. IT IS THE BEST CONTEMPORARY TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH. also: Jim Jarmusch, Ghost Dog [movie] Middle Passage [novel] by Charles R. Johnson List Price: $12.00 Paperback - 224 pages (July 1998) Scribner; ISBN: 0684855887 The Arabian Nights, [excerpts] by Husain Haddawy (Translator), Muhsin Mahdi (Editor) Hesiod [excerpts on Pandora] Always Coming Home [novel] by Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, and George Hersh List Price: $14.95 Paperback - 525 pages (February 5, 2001) Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520227352 Complete Works of Oscar Wilde : Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays by Oscar Wilde, Vyvyan B. Holland (Designer) List Price: $25.00 Paperback - 1216 pages (September 1989) HarperCollins (paper); ISBN: 006096393X WE WILL FOCUS ON 'DORIAN GRAY' AND SELECTED ESSAYS Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile [and other plays] Format: Paperback, 160pp. ISBN: 0802135234 Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Pub. Date: August 1997