Instructor: James H. Donelan

Email: donelan@writing.ucsb.edu
Monday, Wednesday 3:30-4:45, Girvetz 1119
Enroll No.: 45120
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00-1:50, Wednesday 1:00-1:50 or by appointment.
Office: Girvetz 1310

Texts: Wolfson and Manning, The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2A
Barnet and Cain, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature
A reader available at Graphikart in Isla Vista

Books are available at the UCen book store.

Course Description: The course will allow students to refine their skills in scholarship and writing in several humanistic disciplines. Students will address the issues of evidence, interpretation, and critique within each individual discourse and as part of a general understanding of the humanities.

Requirements: The course requires regular attendance, active participation in class discussion and activities, and timely completion of all assignments, including reading journal entries, in-class essays, a short essay on literature (5-6 pages), an annotated bibliography, and one longer essay on a subject of your choice (8-10 pages). Students will also give an oral presentation on a topic related to the longer essay.

In addition, please do your best to observe the following rules:

• Good, clean printing on all assignments: no draft-output setting or faint cartridges.
• Use twelve point Times New Roman or Garamond type and standard line length and spacing. Do not alter typographical elements in order to change the length of the paper.
• Papers should be no longer or shorter than the length assigned and submitted on time.
• Papers should be delivered to my mailbox in South Hall by noon on the date due or in class the same day. Late papers will result in grade reductions.
• Never hand in a paper without proofreading it carefully.
• Your classmates and your instructor depend on your presence in class and your full participation. Do not miss class unless you must.
• All university regulations regarding academic dishonesty will be enforced.

I: Literature: English Romanticism

9/24
Introduction and Logistics

9/26
Barnet/Cain, Chapters 1-4
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book I, 365.
Writing: Reading journal entry

10/1
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book VI, 389.
Hartman, "Via Natualiter Negativa"
Writing: Reading journal entry

10/3
Barnet/Cain, Chapters 5-8.
Liu, "The History in ‘Imagination’"
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume II, Chapters 1-9, 853-883.
Need help with research?

10/8
Barnet/Cain, Chapter 11.
Darlington, "Reclaiming Dorothy Wordsworth’s Legacy"
D. Wordsworth, Grasmere Journals, 462-467. 
Writing: Essay Outline.

10/10
Barnet/Cain, Chapters 15-16.
Percy Shelley, "Adonais," 675.
Writing: Essay Draft.

10/15
Keats, "Ode to a Grecian Urn," 775.
Draft Revision Workshop

10/17
Library Visit, 1575 Davidson Library

10/19
Essay on Poetry Due  Literature Essay Topics

II: Philosophy: Hegel and German Idealism

10/22
Excerpt from Hegel for Beginners
Hegel, Introduction to The Phenomenology of Spirit
Writing: Reading journal entry.

10/24
Hegel, excerpt from The Philosophical History of the World
Writing: In-class essay on philosophy.

III: History

10/29
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 58.
Paine, Rights of Man, 76.
Writing: Prospectus Due; Reading journal entry.

10/31
Clarkson, "The History...of the Abolition...of the African Slave-Trade...,"181.
Writing: Annotated Bibliography Draft

11/5
Equiano, "Narrative..." 151.
Writing: Annotated Bibliography Due; In-class essay on history.

IV: Music: Beethoven

11/7
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3
Burnham, "Beethoven’s Hero"
In-class: Progress Report.

11/12    Veterans' Day--No Classes

11/14
Beethoven continued.
Writing: Outline Due; In-class essay on music.

V: Art: Blake, Friedrich, and Turner

11/19
Blake, Songs of Innocence, 110.
Writing: Reading journal entry.

11/21
Vaughan, "Friedrich"
Writing: Reading journal entry.

11/26
Kroeber, "Wordsworth and Turner"
Writing: In-class essay on art.

11/28
Writing: Rough Draft Due
Group draft readings.

12/3
Oral Presentations. 

12/5
Final Class. Evaluation and assessment of class.

12/10
Final Essay Due.