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 2024-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 N
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 literary texts. They will learn the tactics of essay writing and paper delivering for formal occasions such as conferences and seminars.Its ultimate goal is to prepare students for advanced literary studies, in particular the genre of fiction.
Discussion
Other
Lecturing
topic Discussion/Production
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Written Presentation
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Week 2 Ambrose Bierce “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (pp78-84)
Week 3 Group-1 presentation
Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper”(pp 327-338)
Week 4 Group-2 Presentation
Herman Melville “Bartleby the Scrivener (pp511)
Leo Marx Melville’s Parable of the Walls” (pp 931-934)
Week 5 Group-3 Presentation
Eudora Welty “A Worn Path” (pp 839-845) (Welty, An Interview” P898 & ”Susan Dodd on ’A Worn Path’ p921)
Week 6 Group-4 Presentation
Margaret Atwood “Death by Landscape” (pp 28-40)
Week 7 Mid-term Exam
Week 8 Students present their mid-term Essays.
Week 9 Group-5 Presentation
Frank Kafka “The Metamorphosis” (399-433) (p885 & p920)
Week 10 Group-6 Presentation Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People” (pp622-636)
Author in Depth; Flannery O’Connor (pp968-972)
Week 11 Group-7 Presentation
Leo Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Hyich” (pp765-804)
Tolstoy “What Is Art” (pp895-897)
Gary Saul Morson “The Reader as Voyeur” (pp933-936)
Week 12 Group-8 Presentation
John Steinbeck “The Chrysanthemums” (pp749-756)
Week 13 Group-9 Presentation
Guy de Maupassant “An Adventure in Paris” (pp 493-498) (pp 887-888)
Week 14 Overall Review
Week 15 Final Exam
Week 16 Students present their final papers.
Week 17 Students check grades.
Week 18 Students participate in academic events or cultural activities on or off campus.
Evaluation
30% Attendance & Participation
20% Group Presentation
25% Mid-term exam
25% Final exam
Attendance Policies:
1. Arrival 5 minutes after the class starts is counted as tardiness; arrival 20 minutes after the class starts is counted as one absence.
2. For tardiness, one point is deducted from your final grade; for absence, five points are deducted from your final grade.
3. 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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