Syllabus & Class Overview

Required Components

General Class Information (Note:  attendance at first meeting is required for class membership)

   Instructor Name and Contact Information:  Francis Leo Daugherty

Subject Area and Catalog Number: Humanities ISHU 3254

Year and Term:  Summer 2014 (regular term)

Class Title:  Great Modern Poetry and Poetics

Level: Undergraduate

Credit Type:  Humanities

Class Description:  The title says it all.  We will read the great English-language poetry of the twentieth-and twenty-first centuries, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickenson, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and many others. Students will choose about half the poets and poems at the first meeting on June 3 2014.

Required Text:  Ramazani et al, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2-volume boxed set, 3^rd ed.  ISBN ISBN 978-0-393-32429-7

Learning Outcomes: Students will learn as much as possible in one course about the great English-language poetry from Walt Whitman through the present.

Assessment Components:  Mid-term examination, final examination, journal-keeping, active engagement with readings, faithful attendance, active participation

Delivery Mode Expectations: Classroom (face-to-face), with one possible Internet session.

Required Technical Resources and Technical Components:  None

 

Class Specific Information

Class Instruction and Activities: Seminar-based, small-group discussion based

Class Requirements:  See above under “Assessment Components”

Evaluation Standards and Assessments:  See above under “Assessment Components”

Class Schedule:  Tuesdays from 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. with one Saturday morning class, date TBA

Communication & Student Response Time:  Students are expected to be in daily- available email contact

Assignments: A detailed syllabus will be handed out at the first class meeting on June 3 2014.  All readings are from the required text(s) named above.

Resources:  Normal

Grading:  Student participation, collaboration and journal maintenance, one-half; mid-term examination, one-fourth, final examination, one-fourth.  Both examinations will be open-book take-home exercises with no time constraints other than a one-week turnaround time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Specifications: Computer Hardware:

• Computer with basic audio/video output equipment
• Internet access (broadband recommended)
• Microsoft Word

Technical Support Contacts:

• Login/Password: scpshelpdesk@virginia.edu
• UVaCollab: collab-support@virginia.edu
• BbCollaborate (Elluminate) Support: http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com
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• U.Va. and SCPS Policies
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Purpose Statement: The central purpose of the University of Virginia is to enrich the mind by

stimulating and sustaining a spirit of free inquiry directed to understanding the nature of the

universe and the role of mankind in it. Activities designed to quicken, discipline, and enlarge the

intellectual and creative capacities, as well as the aesthetic and ethical awareness, of the members

of the University and to record, preserve, and disseminate the results of intellectual discovery and

creative endeavor serve this purpose. In fulfilling it, the University places the highest priority on

achieving eminence as a center of higher learning.

 

Content and Discourse in Professional Education Courses: Students are expected to discuss issues respectfully and to honor differing points of view.  Disrespectful behavior, verbal and nonverbal, will not be tolerated.

SCPS Grading Policies: Courses carrying a School of Continuing and Professional Studies subject area use the following grading system:  A+, A, A-; B+, B, B-; C+, C, C-; D+, D, D-; F.  S (satisfactory) and U (unsatisfactory) are used for some course offerings. For noncredit courses, the grade notation is N (no credit). Students who audit courses receive the designation AU (audit). The symbol W is used when a student officially drops a course before its completion or if the student withdraws from an academic program of the University. Please visit SCPS Grades for more information.

 

Attendance: Students are expected to attend all class sessions. Instructors establish attendance and participation requirements for each of their courses. Class requirements, regardless of delivery mode, are not waived due to a student's absence from class. Instructors will require students to make up any missed coursework and may deny credit to any student whose absences are excessive. 

 

SPECIAL NOTE:  Attendance at first meeting on June 3 2014 is required for admission to course unless waived by instructor by pre-arrangement.

 

University Email Policies: Students are expected to check their official U.Va. email addresses on a frequent and consistent basis to remain informed of University communications, as certain communications may be time sensitive. Students who fail to check their email on a regular basis are responsible for any resulting consequences.

 

University of Virginia Honor System:  All work should be pledged in the spirit of the Honor System at the University of Virginia. The instructor will indicate which assignments and activities are to be done individually and which permit collaboration. The following pledge should be written out at the end of all quizzes, examinations, individual assignments and papers:  “I pledge that I have neither given nor received help on this examination (quiz, assignment, etc.)”.  The pledge must be signed by the student. For more information please visit http://www.virginia.edu/honor.

 

Special Needs: It is the policy of the University of Virginia to accommodate students with disabilities in accordance with federal and state laws. Any SCPS student with a disability who needs accommodation (e.g., in arrangements for seating, extended time for examinations, or note-taking, etc.), should contact the Student Disability Access Center (SDAC) and provide them with appropriate medical or psychological documentation of his/her condition. Once accommodations are approved, it is the student’s responsibility to follow up with the instructor about logistics and implementation of accommodations. Accommodations for test taking should be arranged at least 14 business days in advance of the date of the test(s). Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact the SDAC: 434-243-5180/Voice, 434-465-6579/Video Phone, 434-243-5188/Fax. Further policies and statements available: U.Va. Department of Student Health

For further policies and statements about student rights and responsibilities, please see U.Va  Website (http://www.scps.virginia.edu/audience/students)

Class Overview for SIS:  Great Modern Poetry and Poetics

The title says is all.  We will read the great English-language poetry of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.  Students will choose at least half the poems and at the first meeting.  The textbook is Ramazani, Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 2-vol. boxed set, 3rd ed.

Note:  Attendance at first meeting required.