English 2122.01 schedule, summer 2025
Updated 6/17/25
This schedule is tentative.
Focus |
Dates |
Readings |
Assignments |
Introduction(s) |
May 21-23 |
– Course syllabus – MGA English Dept. Definition of Plagiarism |
– Syllabus quiz (D2L quiz) |
Drop/Add ends |
May 22 | ||
First-Generation Romantics |
May 23-31 |
– The
Romantic Era William Blake overview William Wordsworth overview Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Second-Generation Romantics |
June 1-8 |
Mary
Wollstonecraft overview Percy Bysshe Shelley overview John Keats overview |
|
Victorian Poetry | June 8-15 | – Nuggets Elizabeth
Barrett Browning overview Alfred,
Lord Tennyson overview Robert
Browning overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections |
Victorian fiction |
June 15-22 |
Robert Louis Stevenson headnote 886-87 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Literary Terminology test (D2L quiz) |
Midterm exam | June 22-23 | About the midterm | – Midterm exam (D2L quiz) |
Withdrawal deadline |
June 25 | Last day to withdraw with "W" grade |
|
Aesthetic movement & Early Modernism |
June 23-29 |
Oscar Wilde overview Joseph Conrad overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Writing Matters test (D2L quiz) |
Modernism | Jun 29-July 7 |
Virginia Woolf overview James Joyce overview T.S. Eliot overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections |
Postmodernism | July 7-13 | Samuel Beckett overview Beckett headnote 1372-73 Handout: Happy Days |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections |
Contemporary poetry | July 13-16 | W. H. Auden headnote 1429-30 "Musée des Beaux Arts" 1433-34 "The Unknown Citizen" 1436-37 Philip Larkin headnote 1451 "Church Going" 1452 "Ambulances" 1454-55 "This Be the Verse" 1456 Seamus Heaney headnote 1486-87 "Digging" 1487-88 "The Forge" 1488 "Punishment" 1490-91 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections |
Reading Days |
July 17-18 | Exam prep |
– Possible critical response |
Final exam |
July 19-20 |
|
– Final exam (D2L quiz) |