NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 散文選讀(3003)
(Eng.) Prose
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher JUDY,RONALD
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2026-SPRING
Course Description This course is intended as a survey of the prose essay form from Montaigne to contemporary authors like David Foster Wallace and Rachel Kushner
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods

topic Discussion/Production
Discussion
Lecturing
Written Presentation
Attendance
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Montaigne, ”Of Cannibals”
Week 2 Samuel Johnson, ”On Idleness”
Week 3 Nietzsche, ”On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”
Week 4 Hazlitt, ”On the Pleasures of Hating | Essay 1 due
Week 5 Thoreau, ”Walking”
Week 6 Virginia Woolf, ”A Room of One’s Own” (1929)
Week 7 James Baldwin, ”Stranger in the Village” (1953)
Week 8 MIDTERM essay (2)
Week 9 Joan Didion, ”Slouching Toward Bethlehem” (1968)
Week 10 Anthony Bourdain, ”Food is Sex” (1999)
Week 11 Hunter S. Thompson, ”The Song of the Sausage Creature” (1995)
Week 12 Rachel Kushner, ”Girl on a Motorcycle” (2001 | Essay 3 due
Week 13 David Foster Wallace, ”This is Water” (2009)
Week 14 Joelle M Abi-Rached, ”Gaza and the End of History”
Week 15 Review
Week 16 FINAL in-class essay
self-directed
learning
   01.Participation in professional forums, lectures, and corporate sharing sessions related to industry-government-academia-research exchange activities.
   02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.

Evaluation
4 essays (25% each)
Textbook & other References
My reader: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PIk72WqE22pMm4ZCGDEGlvMCRLxlwF-H/view?usp=sharing
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
https://post-literal.blogspot.com
Office Hours
Thurs 10am-12pm
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL)
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Update Date, year/month/day:2026/01/22 10:41:14 Printed Date, year/month/day:2026 / 3 / 10
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