NCHU Course Outline

Course Name	(中) 小說導讀(2043)
	(Eng.) Introduction to Fiction
Offering Dept	Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type	Elective	Credits	3	Teacher	鄭朱雀
Department	Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate	Language	English	Semester	2025-FALL
Course Description	This course equips undergraduates with the terms and tactics to understand forms and contents of fiction so that they are able to express their thoughts fluently both in spoken and written forms. They, too, learn the rules of academic writing so as to prepare themselves for advanced studies.
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
The course aims to strengthen students’ speaking and writing abilities in articulating their views of literature. They will learn the tactics of essay writing and paper delivery for formal occasions such as conferences and seminars. Its ultimate goal is to prepare students for advanced literary studies.			Discussion Other Lecturing topic Discussion/Production	Attendance Oral Presentation Assignment Written Presentation
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content Week 1 Mid-Autumn Festival Week 2 Introduction The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction Week 3 Group-1 Presentation Eudora Welty “A Worn Path” (pp 839-845) (Welty, An Interview, P898 & ”Susan Dodd on ’A Worn Path’ p921) Week 4 Group-2 presentation Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper”(pp 327-338) Week 5 Group-3 Presentation Margaret Atwood “Death by Landscape” (pp 28-40) Week 6 Group-4 Presentation Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People” (pp. 622- 636) Author in Depth; Flannery O’Connor (pp968-972) Week 7 Group-5 Presentation Bharati Mukherjee ”The Management of Grief (pp 922-923) Week 8 Review of previous stories. Mid-term Exam Week 9 Students present their mid-term Essays. Week 10 Group-6 Presentation Frank Kafka “The Metamorphosis” (399-433) (p885 & p920) Week 11 Group-7 Presentationerman Melville “Bartleby the Scrivener (pp. 511) Leo Marx Melville’s Parable of the Walls” (pp 931-934) Week 12 Group-8 Presentation Leo Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” (pp. 765- 804) Tolstoy “What Is Art” (pp. 895- 897) Gary Saul Morson “The Reader as Voyeur” (pp933-936) Week 13 Group-9 Presentation John Steinbeck “The Chrysanthemums” (pp749-756) Week 14 Group-10 Presentation Guy de Maupassant “An Adventure in Paris” (pp 493-498) (pp 887-888) 12/2 Week 15 Final Exam Students present their final answers. Week 16 Students check grades and give suggestions. self-directed learning    02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.    03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.    05.Participation in various workshops organized by different departments of NCHU.
Evaluation
20% Attendance 20% Contribution 20% Group Presentation 20% Mid-term exam 20% Final exam Attendance Policies: 1. Arriving 5 minutes after the class starts is considered tardiness; arriving 20 minutes after the class begins is considered one absence. 2. For tardiness, one point is deducted from your final grade; for absence, five points are deducted from your final grade. 3. A make-up exam will only be given if you can justify your absence on the exam day. 4. All leaves must be proven with valid documents.
Textbook & other References
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction Eds. Richard Bausch and R. V. Cassill. ISBN978-0-393-93776-3 Textbook available at Caves Bookstore on campus
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Office Hours
Wednesday 10-12am
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