1/17/2025 8:30:42 PM	ENGL 2 Course Outline as of Spring 2025	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ENGL 2	Title:  INTRO TO THE NOVEL
Full Title:  Introduction to the Novel
Last Reviewed:3/13/2023

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Students will read, analyze, and interpret novels that represent the history, diversity, and evolution of the novel as a literary and cultural form.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Students will read, analyze, and interpret novels that represent the history, diversity, and evolution of the novel as a literary and cultural form.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1981
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Fall 1981
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Analyze the elements of the novel form: narration, point of view, structure, plot, character, theme, style, diction, and metaphorical language.

2. Identify and apply several methods for reading and interpreting novels.

 

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Read, analyze, and interpret novels that represent the history, diversity, and evolution of the novel as a literary and cultural form.

2. Distinguish the literary and cultural inheritance drawn from the works studied and from the novel as a genre.

3. Recognize and critique the narrative elements that allow for interpretation and evaluation of any novel.

4. Interpret the connection between an individual novel and the particular time and place from which it arises.

5. Use secondary and critical material in the study of literary texts.

Topics and Scope

I. Precursors to the Novel

     A. The oral tradition

     B. Narrative and epic poetry

     C. Short fiction

II. The Early Novel

III. The Rise of the Novel

     A. The eighteenth century

     B. The early nineteenth century

IV. The Rise of the Middle Class and the Novel as a Cultural Medium

V. The Rise of Modernist Novels

VI. The Rise of Postmodern Novels

VII. Review the Elements of Fiction as Applied to the Novel

VIII. Schools of Criticism

     A. Reader-response criticism

     B. Marxist criticism

     C. Feminist criticism

     D. New historicist criticism

     E. Psychoanalytical criticism

IX. Literary Research

     A. Use of academic library databases

     B. Modern Languages Association (MLA) Documentation

Assignments:

1. Readings of varying lengths, including novels and literary criticism (50-100 pages/per week)

2. Response journals: reaction to readings, videos, lectures, novels, and literary criticism

3. Annotated bibliography

4. Short critical response papers (1-2, 500-1,000 words each)

5. Paper including extensive library research with complete and correct MLA documentation (1500 to 2000 words)

6. Group and/or individual presentations about particular works, authors, schools of criticism, time periods, or literary styles

7. Objective exam(s) and/or quiz(zes)

8. Participation in class discussions

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 40 - 50%
Response journals; short critical response papers; research paper
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 20 - 30%
Group and/or individual presentations
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 10 - 20%
Objective exam(s) and/or quiz(zes)
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 10 - 20%
Participation in class discussion; group and/or individual presentations

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

The Theory of the Novel. McKeon, Michael. Johns Hopkins, 2000 (classic).

The Novel: History, Geography, Culture, Vol. 1. Moretti, Franco. Princeton, 2007 (classic).

The Novel: Forms and Themes, Vol. 2. Moretti, Franco. Princeton, 2007 (classic).

How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies.Parker, Robert Dale. Oxford University Press, 2008 (classic). 

Emma. Austen, Jane. Bedford/St.Martin's, 2002 (classic).

Nat Turner. Baker, Kyle. Abrams. 2006 (classic).

Giovanni's Room. Baldwin, James. Dial Press. 1956 (classic).

Funhome: A Family Tragicomic.  Bechdel, Alison. Mariner, 2006 (classic).

Jane Eyre. Bronte, Charlotte. W. W. Norton, 2000 (classic). 

The Best that We Could Do. Bui, Thi. Abrahams, 2018.

Parable of the Sower. Butler, Octavia E. Grand Central Publishing, 2019.

Waiting for the Barbarians. Coetzee, J.M. Penguin, 1999 (classic). 

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Crane, Stephen. Penguin, 2000 (classic). 

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Diaz, Junot. Riverhead Books. 2007 (classic).

The Sentence. Erdrich, Louise. Harper Perennial, 2022.

Madame Bovary. Flaubert, Gustave. Dover, 1996 (classic). 

The Portrait of a Lady. James, Henry. Oxford, 1998 (classic).

The Fifth Season. Jemison, N.K.. Orbit, 2015 (classic).

The Known World. Jones, Edward P. Amistad, 2006 (classic).

March. Lewis, John. Topshelf, 2013 (classic).

The Spoon River Anthology. Masters, Edgar Lee. University of Illinois Press 1992 (classic).

V for Vendetta. Moore, Alan. Vertigo, 1990 (classic).

House Made of Dawn. Momaday, N. Scott. Harper 1977 (classic).

If You Tell. Olsen, Gregg. Thomas & Mercer 2019.

Frankenstein. Shelley, Mary. Dover Publications, 1994 (classic).

A Cool Million. West, Nathanael. Farrar, 1961 (classic).

Mrs. Dalloway. Woolf, Virginia. Harvest, 1990 (classic).

We. Zamyatin, Yevgeny. Harper Voyager, 1983 (classic).

Instructor prepared materials

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