Expectations: Students who complete ENGL 1101 ought to be able to plan, draft, and revise short pieces of prose exhibiting competence proper to a college-educated person. For this special topics section, students will also demonstrate in writing a significant engagement with some of the dialogues of Plato and other ancient philosophical pieces. In addition, since this English class is part of UGA’s core liberal arts curriculum, students ought to exhibit to some extent the virtues proper to a free person.
Each student should attend all class meetings, should read carefully all of the texts assigned for each class period, and should have on hand the appropriate texts.
Evaluation: Grades for this course will be a composite of five written assignments and a portfolio compiled at the end of the semester. The score on each assignment will award its percentage of these point totals to the final grade:
Paper 1 5
Paper 2 15
Paper 3 20
Paper 4 20
Portfolio 30
In addition, up to ten points will come to each student for participation in WebCT discussions, participation in peer revision exercises, and other seemingly arbitrary but ultimately character-building practices.
Absences: Because writing skills develop slowly over time, and because freedom is developed and not purchased, students’ regular attendance is essential in English Composition. Consequently, on the fourth absence, no matter what the reason, students can expect to be dropped either with a W or a WF before the midpoint of the semester and with a WF after midpoint. |
Writing Center (Park Hall 66) and the <emma> Computer Lab (Park Hall 117): All First-year Composition students are eligible for free tutorial services in the Writing Center. All First-year Composition students are also eligible to use the <emma> Computer Lab during all open hours.
Academic Honesty: The policy regarding Academic Honesty in First-year Composition can be found in First-year Composition at UGA. Further information about the “UGA Academic Honesty Policy” can be found at the web site of the Office of the Vice President for Instruction: <http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/>
Access Policy: Students with special needs are invited and encouraged to discuss them with the instructor.
Texts:
Plato, The Republic. Oxford World’s Classics
The St. Martin’s Handbook, 5th ed. (STM)
First Year Composition at UGA, 2006-2007.
Other materials to be printed from WebCT
Paper Submission
Because EMMA portfolios will make up nearly a third of each student’s grade, the teacher will expect each student to upload each draft of each paper to the EMMA database.
Contact Information
If you need to reach me, an email to ngilmour@uga.edu will likely reach me quickest. If you need to see me some time other than my office hours, do not hesitate to talk to me before or after class or email me and set up an appointment. My office phone number is also posted on the UGA English Department web site. |
Daily Schedule
For each class day’s entry, the assignment indicates that which each student should complete before class begins. For every reading assignment, bring to class two written discussion questions should discussion lag. These may be clarification questions for the instructor but would serve better if they were open-ended, big-question kinds of questions. The instructor reserves the right to check any student’s discussion questions, and missing discussion questions will reflect poorly on the participation/ revision part of the final grade.
Read until the section break or the italicized summary on the assigned last page of each assignment.
August 16 (Wednesday)
Intro to the Discussion: Liberal Arts and Four Kinds of Freedom
Distribute partial syllabi
Discussion: Liberals and Republicans and how words change
August 18 (Friday)
Discussion: Freedom as Telling One’s Own Story
Intro to the Portfolio
Intro to assignment 1
August 21 (Monday)
Read FYC at UGA
Quiz over FYC at UGA
Interviews
SMH chapters 2 and 5
Upload an initial draft of your biography and an image to emma some time this week
August 23 (Wednesday)
EMMA Orientation: Class meets in Park 118
August 25 (Friday)
Plato’s “Apology” (WebCT)
August 28 (Monday)
Xenophon’s “Apology” (WebCT)
SMH chapter 27
August 30 (Wednesday)
Plato’s “Crito” (WebCT)
SMH chapters 33 and 48
September 1 (Friday)
Peer Revision Day: Upload papers to EMMA 24 hours before your class period and bring written comments on each group member’s draft to class
September 4 (Monday)
Labor Day: Celebrate the Working Class by Taking a Day Off
September 6 (Wednesday) Paper 1 Due
Take about an hour to skim introduction to Republic (xi-lxii)
SMH chapters 11 and 13
September 8 (Friday)
Republic 1-24
September 11 (Monday)
Republic 24-43
September 13 (Wednesday)
Republic 44-56
SMH chapters 24-26
September 15 (Friday)
Republic 57-69
September 18 (Monday)
Republic 70-95
September 20 (Wednesday)
Republic 95-114
SMH chapters 6 and 64
September 23-27: No regular class meeting: Upload a draft of paper 2 to EMMA 24 hours before your revision meeting and show up on the second floor of the SLC for group meeting at your appointed time
September 29 (Friday) Paper 2 Due
Library Orientation: Meet in SLC 368
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October 2 (Monday)
Republic 115-132
October 4 (Wednesday)
Republic 133-143
October 6 (Friday)
Republic 143-158
October 9 (Monday)
Midpoint Withdrawal Deadline
Republic 159-176
October 11 (Wednesday)
Republic 176-189
October 13 (Friday)
Republic 190-207
October 16 (Monday)
Republic 207-219
October 18 (Wednesday)
Republic 219-226
October 20 (Friday)
Republic 227-249
SMH chapters 18-20
October 23 (Monday)
Peer Revision Day: Upload papers to EMMA 24 hours before your class period and bring written comments on each group member’s draft to class
October 25 (Wednesday) Paper 3 Due
Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government”(WebCT)
October 30 (Monday)
Republic 250-264
November 1 (Wednesday)
Republic 264-276
November 3 (Friday)
Republic 277-302
November 6 (Monday)
Republic 302-319
November 8 (Wednesday)
Republic 320-343
November 10 (Friday)
Republic 344-363
November 13 (Monday)
Republic 363-379
SMH chapters 43-45
November 15 (Wednesday)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book one (WebCT)
SMH chapters 46-47
November 17 (Friday)
Peer Revision Day: Upload papers to EMMA 24 hours before your class period and bring written comments on each group member’s draft to class
November 20 (Monday) Paper 4 Due
Milton, “On Education” (WebCT)
November 27 (Monday)
SMH chapter 50
November 29 (Wednesday)
Peer Revision Day: Upload one revised paper for your portfolio to EMMA 24 hours before your class period and bring written comments on each group member’s draft to class
December 1 (Friday)
Peer Revision Day: Upload a draft of your reflective essay to EMMA 24 hours before your class period and bring written comments on each group member’s draft to class
December 4 (Monday)
Peer Revision Day: Upload a piece of writing for revision to EMMA 24 hours before your class period and bring written comments on each group member’s draft to class
December 5 (Tuesday)
PORTFOLIOS DUE 6:00 PM
December 6 (Wednesday)
TBA |
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