Literary Criticism and Theory · English And Comparative Literature
About a book or movie a week with the occasional article. If you are smart and a good BSer, you can get away without completing a book or two. Weekly courseworks postings until she forgets to put up the question for too many weeks in a row Essays. We had 3 because she didn't assign us any until halfway through but I think she originially said she would assign 5. They were other random written assignments on the syllabus that she did not assign us to do
The reading depends on what your class decides . Other than that, you have to write one 500-word posting on the board every week, and do a final project of your choosing. The postings aren't graded -- your final grade is basically based on how MANY postings youve done, not how good they are. Easy and enjoyable A if you put in the effort.
Completely manageable, one discussion board post per week and 4 essays
4-5 page essay every other week, 1 in class essay. 1 required revision and other revisions allowed.
Response papers weekly, unless she had assigned a longer paper due the same week (I believe there were 3 or 4 of those...only about 4 pages each). Lots of reading, both primary and critical texts, but that's what you get in a once a week 4 credit course. And you can skim some of the criticism if necessary and still manage.
reasonable reading, a paper about every month. spend time on the paper to get the most out of the class.
HEAVY. Weekly reading responses... and they aren't casual, she expects an essay as well as 5 harshly graded papers.
Insane. But totally worthwhile. And from what I hear not that much more than other sections of the class.
I started out loving this class but I DO NOT feel that way now! Spiegel is unorganized. While the other sections were reading literary favorites and writing essays, we were discussing memory the ENTIRE semester. We read books, articles, and watched movies about memory and history. It seems to be her expertise which she then applies to every course that she teachers - whether it is this course or a film course, I have a feeling that the syllabi are very similar. We were supposed to have weekly courseworks postings but she stopped those because she kept forgetting to put up prompts and questions for us to discuss. She didn't assign us any essays to write until halfway through the semester so we had to rush in 3 essays instead of having them spread out thanks to Spiegel's unorganized and chaotic nature. And then is the grading. It took her a VERY long time to give us our grades for the first paper. We were graded harshly and everyone in the class said that they were surprised by her harsh and rather rude comments and grades. This could partly be because it was our first grade all semester and she told us that we were all doing better than we ended up doing on the paper. On the same note, I asked her if I should rewrite a draft of my essay and she said it was not necessary and that I would do very well on the paper. Well, she lied. I did not do very well and it is not just that I…
PROFESSOR SHARPE IS MY HERO. I really, seriously want him to adopt me. I took Lit Crit with him to fulfill a req for the English major. I was dreading it, but because of Prof Sharpe I looked forward to it every week. He lets you create your own syllabus as a class, and grade yourself as a student (within reason), and his grading system is based on effort rather than merit. So it's kinda like a "create-your-own" class. And it's awesome. We chose books to read so they were random, but all really good, and I learned SO MUCH in this class! He knows tons about literary theory, and actually, everything. By the end of the class we would ask him random questions 'cause we figured out he always knows the answer. Plus, if you go to him during office hours he's incredibly nice, helpful, and accomodating. He gave me a book to read and helped me with a paper from another class. Take this class with Sharpe!