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11/12 -- Elizabethan Sonneteers: Sidney (916-933); Spenser (863-878)

11/14 -- Shakespeare, Sonnets (1026-1043) (RE 5)

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11/19 -- Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I: Introduction to Spenser (614-616); 
    introduction to FQ (622-624); Spenser's Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh (624-627); 
    Canto 1 to Canto 7 (628-710)

11/21 FQ, Book I: Canto 8 to Canto 12 (710-772) (RE 6)

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11/26 FQ, II, The Bower of Blisse (772-783); III, The Garden of Adonis (826-839)

Midterm Examination (October 15) 25% of grade 
Research Exercises (due during quarter) 25% of grade
Final Examination (December 3) 30% of grade
Class participation and discussion group (4^th hour project) 20% of grade

I have created an electronic discussion group for this class. To use it, you must have an email address (though not necessarily a WSU email address) and must be able to send and receive email. The discussion group is set up with your WSU email address as a "default." All messages sent to the distribution list will go to all members of the class.

If you would prefer to use another email address instead of (or along with) your WSU address, please let me know. I will add that new address to the list. If you want to use your WSU email account but need assistance or instructions on how to access it, please see the CATS help desk in the library basement (775-4827).

This discussion group accounts for much of your writing in this class. It is also serves as the equivalent for the fourth, unmet hour for this class. Use the discussion group to converse with your classmates about the reading and discussion, to respond to my questions, to note relationships among readings, to raise your own questions or concerns, to argue points we can't always get to in class, or to alert the rest of us to an interesting find in your outside reading. Many weeks I will post questions on the readings for that week; if you can't think of anything else to write, respond to one of my questions. Alternatively, you can quote a passage from one of the week's readings and frame your own discussion around it.

In order to receive a grade of C for discussion group participation you will need to make FOUR substantive postings, (a "substantive posting" will raise and comment in depth on a new issue for discussion or it will respond in depth to an ongoing discussion). A grade of B requires SIX substantive postings, while a grade of A requires EIGHT substantive postings. Do not put your participation off until the end of the quarter. I will count no more than two entries in each of the final three weeks of the course, so if you want an A for the discussion group section of the course, you will need to post at least two substantive messages during weeks one through seven. Start early and post often!

Each student must complete four research exercises during the quarter. You will have six opportunities to do such exercises, and each exercise will let you choose between two different topics. Each assignment will ask you to use one or more important reference tools, like the Oxford English Dictionary, the Dictionary of National Biography, the Short-Title Catalogue of early printed books, and others. Some of these are available on-line. For others, you will need to use printed materials. (Print resources will be available either in the library reference section or on reserve.) Some exercises may also ask you to read additional literature beyond the syllabus.

Carefully write, edit and proofread each exercise to make sure it meets the standards of academic writing in English. Print each using a clear laser or inkjet printer. Cite all research sources you use in each exercise following the format in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

Although I have not specifically listed "Attendance" among the requirements for this course, it can count in a negative way. This TTh class meets only 20 times during this quarter—if you miss only two classes, you miss 10% of the course. Therefore, I will enforce the following policy on attendance:

One to three absences --  No penalty

Four to six absences --  Final grade drops one letter grade 

Seven or more absences --  F for course

Academic honesty is likewise essential to the fair and successful conduct of class, and dishonesty will be punished. Dishonesty includes various kinds of cheating, "plagiarism" (defined as the use of the words or ideas of another as if they were your own), and copying the work of another student in a test. Penalties for academic dishonesty can be severe; in most cases the work will receive a grade of zero.

INSTRUCTOR Henry Limouze

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