ENGLISH 1102:
VICTORIAN TECHNOLOGY
AND ART
SPRING 2015
Dr. Amanda Golden
Writing and Communication Program
School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Georgia Institute of Technology
Class Times and Locations:
ENGL 1102 D 1:35 TR Skiles 171
ENGL 1102 F3 9:35 TR Skiles 317
ENGL 1102 N1 12:05 TR Skiles 156
Office: Skiles 313
Office Hours: TR 3-4:30 p.m.
[email protected]
Email is the best way to reach the instructor.
Course Website: http://victoriantechnologyandart.weebly.com/
Course Blog: http://blogs.iac.gatech.edu/victoriantechnologyandart/
Course Overview
This course will address technology, the arts, and literary expression in nineteenth-century England and the British Empire. We will begin with Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet (1998) and then read the poetry, prose, and fiction of Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel, and Oscar Wilde. Topics we will consider include the changing role of the city, the landscape, the gothic, industrialization, print culture, film adaptations, and digital archives. Students will write essays, give presentations, contribute to a class blog, and create digital projects. Members of the class will also have the opportunity to attend the “Mobilities” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference hosted by Georgia Tech in the spring.
Course Texts
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume E, The Victorian Age. Ninth Edition. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt, et al (2012). ISBN: 0393912531.
Norton Critical Edition of Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (2006). ISBN: 0719546680.
WOVENText. Georgia Tech Custom E-Book
Additional readings will be available on T-Square.
Assessment
Project 1: 20%
Project 2: 25%
Project 3: 25%
Final Portfolio: 15%
Class Participation: 15%
Assignments are due on T-Square at least thirty minutes before our class begins.
Papers must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, and double-spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides. Students must use MLA format.
Grading
All grading is holistic.
To achieve a satisfactory grade on a project, you must complete the project. Incomplete projects will receive an unsatisfactory grade.
This means students must complete every stage of a project in order to receive a satisfactory (C or better) grade on that project. Failure to complete any stage (draft, peer review, post-write reflection, etc.) of a project will result in an incomplete project and an unsatisfactory grade (D or F) on that assignment.
Similarly, since the projects are intended to build upon one another as students work toward the final portfolio, failure to complete any of the individual projects may result in an unsatisfactory grade for the course.
Late and Missed Assignments
For each day your assignment is late, the date will decrease by three points. Emergencies will be dealt with on an individual basis.
Late is still better than never when it comes to project stages and the like, however, because failure to complete the work associated with a particular stage or draft altogether would result in an unsatisfactory grade on the overall project.
Similarly, since each project builds from previous projects and failure to complete any one project may lead to an unsatisfactory grade for the course, turning a final draft in late is better than not turning it in at all.
Any assignment that is not submitted will be recorded as a 0 (“zero”) and averaged with the rest of your grades. This can damage your course average severely: For example, if you have completed five assignments with a 92 average but don’t submit a sixth assignment (which is counted as a “zero”), your overall average will be a 77.
Common Policies
Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program has common, program-wide policies regarding these areas:
Learning Outcomes
Evaluation Equivalencies
Evaluation Rubric
Attendance
Participation In Class
Non-Discrimination
Communication Center
Accommodations
Academic Misconduct
Syllabus Modifications
Dead Week
Reflective Portfolio
You can access these common Writing and Communication Program policies on T-Square here. You are required to acknowledge that you have read, understood, and intend to comply with these policies.
Attendance
Students may miss a total of three (3) classes for T/Th classes over the course of the semester without penalty.
Reasons for absences. The attendance policy does not make any distinction about the reasons for your absences. Only absences officially exempted by the Institute (e.g., due to participation in official GATech athletics, to religious observance, to personal or family crisis and excused by documentation from the Dean of Students) will not be counted among your allotted absences. These exemptions are difficult to get.
Responsibility for missed work. Students are responsible for finding out what they may have missed while absent from class and what policy the instructor has for making up missed work.
Absence penalties. Each additional absence after the allotted number deducts one-third of a letter grade from a student’s final grade. Missing six (6) classes in a T/Th course results in automatic failure of the class.
Students are expected to keep up with their own attendance record; see the instructor if you have a question about how many classes you have missed. The instructor’s record is the official record of your attendance in the class.
Course Policies
As a general rule, everyone in this class should treat everyone else with respect, and all students should follow the student code of conduct.
As your instructor, I undertake to abide by my own policies as set out below, to treat all students fairly and with respect, to create a classroom environment conducive to learning and open discussion, and to be available during reasonable hours outside of class to clarify student questions related to course projects and material.
As students in this class, you are expected to take the class seriously, to comply with the policies set out below, to complete assigned readings and work in a timely and professional manner, to create a classroom environment conducive to learning and open discussion, and to take responsibility for your own learning.
Academic Honesty
Plagiarism, or academic dishonesty, is presenting someone else's ideas or writing as your own. In your writing for this class, you are encouraged to refer to other people's thoughts and writing -- as long as you cite them.
If you are ever in doubt about whether you are citing something correctly, please contact the professor.
You must list all sources you consult in your works cited list. You must cite web pages.
In moments of crisis students sometimes make decisions that they would not otherwise make. If you find yourself in a situation that affects your work in this class, please contact the instructor.
If you engage in plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct, you will fail the assignment in which you have engaged in academic misconduct and may be referred to the Office of Student Integrity, as specified by Georgia Tech policy. I strongly urge you to be familiar with Georgia Tech’s Honor Challenge— http://www.honor.gatech.edu/ —as well as the Office of Student Integrity--http://www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/integrity/
You should be familiar with the process for academic misconduct--http://www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/integrity/academic_misconduct.php
Your projects should be appropriately documented as well as mechanically and grammatically correct. If you quote or paraphrase, please use internal, parenthetical citations (author, date, page for direct quotations) as well as an end-of-document works cited list. Visuals as well as text must be properly cited. Not providing appropriate citations is a kind of plagiarism. Professionals should be scrupulously careful about their citations.
Students who plagiarize will be dealt with according to the GT Academic Honor Code.
Except for group projects, students should complete all work for this class on their own, with collaboration limited to peer review feedback as specified in the project description.
You should always provide attribution whenever you incorporate the ideas, words, or images of another in your own work.
All work turned in for credit in this class should be work that you have done specifically for this class. Do not “recycle” old work or even new work completed for another class. If you would like to build upon previous work or work that you are doing in another class in an assignment for this one, please clear it with me first.
You should adhere to Georgia Tech’s honor code for all work related to this class.
Meeting with the Instructor
Your instructor is the most important resource in the course. Talk with her regularly—both by visiting her during office hours and by corresponding via email. Do not wait until you’re having difficulty to initiate a conversation.
Projects
During the course, you will create a range of multimodal artifacts: written, oral, visual, digital, and nonverbal. For every project, you will receive a detailed assignment sheet that includes assessment criteria.
Beyond the expenses for required books, you can anticipate modest printing, photocopying, or fabrication expenses related to a number of class projects.
Participation
Some of your required work, both individual and collaborative, will be completed in-class and for homework, all part of your participation grade, which will account for 15% of your course grade. Attendance is a separate course requirement and does not count as part of your participation grade.
These activities count for your participation grade:
Participation in class discussions
Participation in group activities
Discussions
Peer review
Short Assignments
Quizzes
You must be present, prepared, on time, and engaged in seminar discussions. All course readings must be completed before class, and you will be attentive while in class if you want to earn an A or B. Substantive contribution to discussions, active listening, and thought-provoking questions are all considered participation. Being present but doing something else on your laptop is not participation, and will result in a C or lower. Here is a rough breakdown of what you can expect for each grade:
A: Lively engagement in discussions. Applies and/or challenges readings. Engages with and/or motivates peers
B: Actively listens in class and occasionally comments. Good collaboration with classmates
C: Tends to look disengaged. Might use phone or laptop for purposes not related to class. Occasionally tardy and absent
D: Sleeps in class. Rarely pays attention and/or is disruptive. Frequently tardy or absent. Unprepared for peer review or group meetings
F: Doesn’t attend class often. Sleeps through class when present, or disengaged. Disruptive.
You are expected to bring your laptop and a copy of the required readings or writing assignment to each class. This is a basic requirement for a C in class participation.
Portfolio
You will work on your portfolio throughout the semester and complete it during dead week. The portfolio will include your projects and your reflections about the processes to create and revise them. 15% of course grade.
Blog Entries and Comments
Throughout the term you will post at least four blog entries on four of the six dates indicated on the syllabus. You must also comment on at least one of your peers’ blog postings on four of the six dates on the syllabus. Our blog will be limited to members of the three sections of English 1102: Victorian Technology and Art and not available to the public. The instructor will provide an assignment for the postings indicated on the syllabus, but you are also welcome to post and comment whenever you feel inspired to do so. Your blog entries must be at least 250 words and analyze quotations from the text as well as an image, sound, or video clip that you will include or indicate with a link. Blog postings provide an opportunity to shed light on the contexts that inform the texts we will read. You should build from the topics we have addressed in class and in our projects, taking the readings a step further and posing questions for your classmates to consider. The blog is also a place where you can receive feedback as you develop your projects.
Technology Policy
Technology use in-class should be related to what we are doing in class. Set your mobile phone to vibrate. Do not answer your mobile phone unless it appears to be an emergency, e.g. the call is from a child or elder care provider or a parent who would not call during class except in case of emergency. Do not engage with social media or email unless I specifically request that you do so as part of our in-class work.
Tools
We will use the following tools this term
T-Square
Google Maps
TodaysMeet
WordPress
Prezi
Jing
Voyant
Scalar
If you do not already have free user accounts for each of these services, you will need to create them. You may create pseudonymous user accounts solely for use in this class, or you can use existing accounts associated with your actual name. We will go over the basics of sharing content via these tools in class as it becomes relevant. Ultimately, however, learning how to use these tools is *your* responsibility. If you have questions, then you will need to meet with the instructor or a peer outside of class to discuss them. You can also consult any of the other IT resources available on campus.
The tools described above are those that you will definitely be required to use. In addition to these tools, you will almost certainly need to make use of others, as appropriate, to complete assigned work. For example, for your final project, you will build a collaborative online portfolio of your work for this class using whatever web design tools are at your disposal. In the event I don't specify a particular tool for a particular project, deciding which tool or tools to use, and acquiring proficiency with it/them will be your responsibility.
If you ever have questions about what tools you should use for a particular project or how to use them, you can make an appointment to discuss them with me, and you can also get help from a number of IT resources on campus.
Technology Concerns
The projects you create in this course should be creative, accurate, provocative, relevant, engaging, and rhetorically sensitive. Specific requirements for assignments will be discussed in class. Keep a copy of all assignments you turn in. Maintain a cumulative file (hard copy as well as computer file) that includes all your assignments (drafts and final versions). This file serves as a base for you to judge your improvement during the semester and to select samples for your portfolio.
Course Schedule
This is a class about composition and communication, so your participation is essential. Expect also to engage regularly in a variety of in-class activities and exercises—oral, visual, and written. Make connections between what we’re discussing in this class and what you hear elsewhere (in other classes, on websites, on social media, in news media, in conversations, etc.). Simply put, active, productive participation is worth 15% of your grade, but it will also make the class more interesting and more enjoyable.
Assignments and readings are due on the dates below.
Tues. 1/6: First Day of Class. Introductions. How the Victorians Wired the World.
Thurs. 1/8: Read Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet ch. 1 (on T-Square)
and Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless” (1902). Return last page of syllabus on T-Square. You can type your name and cut and paste the file in to a new word document.
Tues. 1/13: Read The Victorian Internet ch. 2 and 3 and Nicholas Daly, "Technology," from the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture (on T-Square).
Thurs. 1/15: Read Introduction to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume E: The Victorian Age (1024-1034) and Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde (1677-1700). You can also use the Audiobooks App.
Tues. 1/20: Blog Posting 1 Due. Finish Jekyll and Hyde (1700-1719) and read Stephen Arata, "The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde," from Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle (on T-Square). In class, films of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920s) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955).
Thurs. 1/22: Read George Eliot, “The Lifted Veil.” Review Quotation and Citation Procedures in WOVENText and Sample Essays (on T-Square). Incorporating Quotations Video. MLA Format Video.
Tues. 1/27: Blog Posting 2 Due. Finish “The Lifted Veil.” See also the "Industrialism: Progress or Decline" and "The 'Woman Question': The Victorian Debate About Gender" sections of the Norton Anthology.
Thurs. 1/29: Read excerpt from Janet Murray, Strong Minded Women (on T-Square).
Tues. 2/3: Read Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Lady of Shalott” (1161-1165), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Aurora Leigh" (1138-1143), and Emily Brontë poems (1128-1134). Brontë Juvenilia. "Lady of Shalott" song by Loreena McKennitt. Read ch. 3 of WOVENText, "Multimodal Synergy."
Thurs. 2/5: Read Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market” (1496-1507), Charles Dickens, "From Old Lamps for New Ones" (1465-1466), John Ruskin, "From Pre-Raphaelitism" (1468-1470), William Michael Rossetti, "[The Pre-Raphaelite Manifesto]" (1470), and Elizabeth Prettejohn, "Introduction," from the Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites (on T-Square). The Pre-Raphaelites. The Rossetti Archive.
Tues. 2/10: Project 1 Rough Draft Due. In Class Peer Review.
Thurs. 2/12: Read Imogen Hart, "The Designs of William Morris" from The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites and introduction to Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture (on T-Square). William Morris Documentary. William Morris Archive.
Tues. 2/17: Project 1 Final Draft Due. In Class Reflections.
Thurs. 2/19: Read Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface and ch. 1-3. Wilde Documentary.
Tues. 2/24: Blog Posting 3 Due. Read Dorian Gray, ch. 4-9.
Thurs. 2/26: Read Dorian Gray, ch.10-14.
Tues. 3/3: Blog Posting 4 Due. Skim Dorian Gray ch. 15-19 and read ch. 20. Read Michael Patrick Gillespie, "Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde's Novel" and Donald L. Lawler, "Oscar Wilde's First Manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray" in the Norton Critical Edition.
Thurs. 3/5: Film of Dorian Gray. Read Jonathan Goldman, ch. 1 from Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity (on T-Square). Skype conversation in 12:05 and 1:35 classes with Dr. Goldman, author of Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity. Email the instructor with a question for the discussion by 5pm on Wednesday, March 4.
Tues. 3/10: Film of Dorian Gray.
Thurs. 3/12: Project 2: Rough Draft Due. In Class Peer Review.
Tues. 3/17: No Class: Spring Break.
Thurs. 3/19: No Class: Spring Break.
Tues. 3/24: Project 2: Final Draft Due. In Class Reflections.
Thurs. 3/26: Read Flora Annie Steel, The Potter's Thumb, ch. 1-5. See also section of the Norton Anthology, "Empire and National Identity."
Tues. 3/31: Blog Posting 5 Due. Read The Potter's Thumb, ch. 6-10.
Thurs. 4/2: Project 3 Presentations: Groups 1, 2, and 3.
Tues. 4/7: Project 3 Presentations: Groups 4, 5, and 6.
Thurs. 4/9: Project 3 Presentation: Group 7 and Reflections in Class.
Tues. 4/14: Portfolio Workshop.
Thurs. 4/16: INCS “Mobilities” Conference (April 16-19).
Blog Posting 6 Due by 11pm on Sunday, April 19.
Tues. 4/21: Portfolio Workshop.
Thurs. 4/23: Last Day of Classes. Portfolio Workshop.
Portfolios Due on T-Square During Final Exam Periods.
9:35 section (F3) portfolios are due by Tuesday April 28 at 10:50am.
12:05pm section (N1) portfolios are due by Thursday April 30 at 2:20pm.
1:35 section (D) portfolios are due by Thursday April 30 at 5:40pm.
Early submissions are encouraged.
VICTORIAN TECHNOLOGY
AND ART
SPRING 2015
Dr. Amanda Golden
Writing and Communication Program
School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Georgia Institute of Technology
Class Times and Locations:
ENGL 1102 D 1:35 TR Skiles 171
ENGL 1102 F3 9:35 TR Skiles 317
ENGL 1102 N1 12:05 TR Skiles 156
Office: Skiles 313
Office Hours: TR 3-4:30 p.m.
[email protected]
Email is the best way to reach the instructor.
Course Website: http://victoriantechnologyandart.weebly.com/
Course Blog: http://blogs.iac.gatech.edu/victoriantechnologyandart/
Course Overview
This course will address technology, the arts, and literary expression in nineteenth-century England and the British Empire. We will begin with Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet (1998) and then read the poetry, prose, and fiction of Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel, and Oscar Wilde. Topics we will consider include the changing role of the city, the landscape, the gothic, industrialization, print culture, film adaptations, and digital archives. Students will write essays, give presentations, contribute to a class blog, and create digital projects. Members of the class will also have the opportunity to attend the “Mobilities” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference hosted by Georgia Tech in the spring.
Course Texts
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume E, The Victorian Age. Ninth Edition. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt, et al (2012). ISBN: 0393912531.
Norton Critical Edition of Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (2006). ISBN: 0719546680.
WOVENText. Georgia Tech Custom E-Book
Additional readings will be available on T-Square.
Assessment
Project 1: 20%
Project 2: 25%
Project 3: 25%
Final Portfolio: 15%
Class Participation: 15%
Assignments are due on T-Square at least thirty minutes before our class begins.
Papers must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, and double-spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides. Students must use MLA format.
Grading
All grading is holistic.
To achieve a satisfactory grade on a project, you must complete the project. Incomplete projects will receive an unsatisfactory grade.
This means students must complete every stage of a project in order to receive a satisfactory (C or better) grade on that project. Failure to complete any stage (draft, peer review, post-write reflection, etc.) of a project will result in an incomplete project and an unsatisfactory grade (D or F) on that assignment.
Similarly, since the projects are intended to build upon one another as students work toward the final portfolio, failure to complete any of the individual projects may result in an unsatisfactory grade for the course.
Late and Missed Assignments
For each day your assignment is late, the date will decrease by three points. Emergencies will be dealt with on an individual basis.
Late is still better than never when it comes to project stages and the like, however, because failure to complete the work associated with a particular stage or draft altogether would result in an unsatisfactory grade on the overall project.
Similarly, since each project builds from previous projects and failure to complete any one project may lead to an unsatisfactory grade for the course, turning a final draft in late is better than not turning it in at all.
Any assignment that is not submitted will be recorded as a 0 (“zero”) and averaged with the rest of your grades. This can damage your course average severely: For example, if you have completed five assignments with a 92 average but don’t submit a sixth assignment (which is counted as a “zero”), your overall average will be a 77.
Common Policies
Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program has common, program-wide policies regarding these areas:
Learning Outcomes
Evaluation Equivalencies
Evaluation Rubric
Attendance
Participation In Class
Non-Discrimination
Communication Center
Accommodations
Academic Misconduct
Syllabus Modifications
Dead Week
Reflective Portfolio
You can access these common Writing and Communication Program policies on T-Square here. You are required to acknowledge that you have read, understood, and intend to comply with these policies.
Attendance
Students may miss a total of three (3) classes for T/Th classes over the course of the semester without penalty.
Reasons for absences. The attendance policy does not make any distinction about the reasons for your absences. Only absences officially exempted by the Institute (e.g., due to participation in official GATech athletics, to religious observance, to personal or family crisis and excused by documentation from the Dean of Students) will not be counted among your allotted absences. These exemptions are difficult to get.
Responsibility for missed work. Students are responsible for finding out what they may have missed while absent from class and what policy the instructor has for making up missed work.
Absence penalties. Each additional absence after the allotted number deducts one-third of a letter grade from a student’s final grade. Missing six (6) classes in a T/Th course results in automatic failure of the class.
Students are expected to keep up with their own attendance record; see the instructor if you have a question about how many classes you have missed. The instructor’s record is the official record of your attendance in the class.
Course Policies
As a general rule, everyone in this class should treat everyone else with respect, and all students should follow the student code of conduct.
As your instructor, I undertake to abide by my own policies as set out below, to treat all students fairly and with respect, to create a classroom environment conducive to learning and open discussion, and to be available during reasonable hours outside of class to clarify student questions related to course projects and material.
As students in this class, you are expected to take the class seriously, to comply with the policies set out below, to complete assigned readings and work in a timely and professional manner, to create a classroom environment conducive to learning and open discussion, and to take responsibility for your own learning.
Academic Honesty
Plagiarism, or academic dishonesty, is presenting someone else's ideas or writing as your own. In your writing for this class, you are encouraged to refer to other people's thoughts and writing -- as long as you cite them.
If you are ever in doubt about whether you are citing something correctly, please contact the professor.
You must list all sources you consult in your works cited list. You must cite web pages.
In moments of crisis students sometimes make decisions that they would not otherwise make. If you find yourself in a situation that affects your work in this class, please contact the instructor.
If you engage in plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct, you will fail the assignment in which you have engaged in academic misconduct and may be referred to the Office of Student Integrity, as specified by Georgia Tech policy. I strongly urge you to be familiar with Georgia Tech’s Honor Challenge— http://www.honor.gatech.edu/ —as well as the Office of Student Integrity--http://www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/integrity/
You should be familiar with the process for academic misconduct--http://www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/integrity/academic_misconduct.php
Your projects should be appropriately documented as well as mechanically and grammatically correct. If you quote or paraphrase, please use internal, parenthetical citations (author, date, page for direct quotations) as well as an end-of-document works cited list. Visuals as well as text must be properly cited. Not providing appropriate citations is a kind of plagiarism. Professionals should be scrupulously careful about their citations.
Students who plagiarize will be dealt with according to the GT Academic Honor Code.
Except for group projects, students should complete all work for this class on their own, with collaboration limited to peer review feedback as specified in the project description.
You should always provide attribution whenever you incorporate the ideas, words, or images of another in your own work.
All work turned in for credit in this class should be work that you have done specifically for this class. Do not “recycle” old work or even new work completed for another class. If you would like to build upon previous work or work that you are doing in another class in an assignment for this one, please clear it with me first.
You should adhere to Georgia Tech’s honor code for all work related to this class.
Meeting with the Instructor
Your instructor is the most important resource in the course. Talk with her regularly—both by visiting her during office hours and by corresponding via email. Do not wait until you’re having difficulty to initiate a conversation.
Projects
During the course, you will create a range of multimodal artifacts: written, oral, visual, digital, and nonverbal. For every project, you will receive a detailed assignment sheet that includes assessment criteria.
Beyond the expenses for required books, you can anticipate modest printing, photocopying, or fabrication expenses related to a number of class projects.
Participation
Some of your required work, both individual and collaborative, will be completed in-class and for homework, all part of your participation grade, which will account for 15% of your course grade. Attendance is a separate course requirement and does not count as part of your participation grade.
These activities count for your participation grade:
Participation in class discussions
Participation in group activities
Discussions
Peer review
Short Assignments
Quizzes
You must be present, prepared, on time, and engaged in seminar discussions. All course readings must be completed before class, and you will be attentive while in class if you want to earn an A or B. Substantive contribution to discussions, active listening, and thought-provoking questions are all considered participation. Being present but doing something else on your laptop is not participation, and will result in a C or lower. Here is a rough breakdown of what you can expect for each grade:
A: Lively engagement in discussions. Applies and/or challenges readings. Engages with and/or motivates peers
B: Actively listens in class and occasionally comments. Good collaboration with classmates
C: Tends to look disengaged. Might use phone or laptop for purposes not related to class. Occasionally tardy and absent
D: Sleeps in class. Rarely pays attention and/or is disruptive. Frequently tardy or absent. Unprepared for peer review or group meetings
F: Doesn’t attend class often. Sleeps through class when present, or disengaged. Disruptive.
You are expected to bring your laptop and a copy of the required readings or writing assignment to each class. This is a basic requirement for a C in class participation.
Portfolio
You will work on your portfolio throughout the semester and complete it during dead week. The portfolio will include your projects and your reflections about the processes to create and revise them. 15% of course grade.
Blog Entries and Comments
Throughout the term you will post at least four blog entries on four of the six dates indicated on the syllabus. You must also comment on at least one of your peers’ blog postings on four of the six dates on the syllabus. Our blog will be limited to members of the three sections of English 1102: Victorian Technology and Art and not available to the public. The instructor will provide an assignment for the postings indicated on the syllabus, but you are also welcome to post and comment whenever you feel inspired to do so. Your blog entries must be at least 250 words and analyze quotations from the text as well as an image, sound, or video clip that you will include or indicate with a link. Blog postings provide an opportunity to shed light on the contexts that inform the texts we will read. You should build from the topics we have addressed in class and in our projects, taking the readings a step further and posing questions for your classmates to consider. The blog is also a place where you can receive feedback as you develop your projects.
Technology Policy
Technology use in-class should be related to what we are doing in class. Set your mobile phone to vibrate. Do not answer your mobile phone unless it appears to be an emergency, e.g. the call is from a child or elder care provider or a parent who would not call during class except in case of emergency. Do not engage with social media or email unless I specifically request that you do so as part of our in-class work.
Tools
We will use the following tools this term
T-Square
Google Maps
TodaysMeet
WordPress
Prezi
Jing
Voyant
Scalar
If you do not already have free user accounts for each of these services, you will need to create them. You may create pseudonymous user accounts solely for use in this class, or you can use existing accounts associated with your actual name. We will go over the basics of sharing content via these tools in class as it becomes relevant. Ultimately, however, learning how to use these tools is *your* responsibility. If you have questions, then you will need to meet with the instructor or a peer outside of class to discuss them. You can also consult any of the other IT resources available on campus.
The tools described above are those that you will definitely be required to use. In addition to these tools, you will almost certainly need to make use of others, as appropriate, to complete assigned work. For example, for your final project, you will build a collaborative online portfolio of your work for this class using whatever web design tools are at your disposal. In the event I don't specify a particular tool for a particular project, deciding which tool or tools to use, and acquiring proficiency with it/them will be your responsibility.
If you ever have questions about what tools you should use for a particular project or how to use them, you can make an appointment to discuss them with me, and you can also get help from a number of IT resources on campus.
Technology Concerns
The projects you create in this course should be creative, accurate, provocative, relevant, engaging, and rhetorically sensitive. Specific requirements for assignments will be discussed in class. Keep a copy of all assignments you turn in. Maintain a cumulative file (hard copy as well as computer file) that includes all your assignments (drafts and final versions). This file serves as a base for you to judge your improvement during the semester and to select samples for your portfolio.
Course Schedule
This is a class about composition and communication, so your participation is essential. Expect also to engage regularly in a variety of in-class activities and exercises—oral, visual, and written. Make connections between what we’re discussing in this class and what you hear elsewhere (in other classes, on websites, on social media, in news media, in conversations, etc.). Simply put, active, productive participation is worth 15% of your grade, but it will also make the class more interesting and more enjoyable.
Assignments and readings are due on the dates below.
Tues. 1/6: First Day of Class. Introductions. How the Victorians Wired the World.
Thurs. 1/8: Read Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet ch. 1 (on T-Square)
and Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless” (1902). Return last page of syllabus on T-Square. You can type your name and cut and paste the file in to a new word document.
Tues. 1/13: Read The Victorian Internet ch. 2 and 3 and Nicholas Daly, "Technology," from the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture (on T-Square).
Thurs. 1/15: Read Introduction to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume E: The Victorian Age (1024-1034) and Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde (1677-1700). You can also use the Audiobooks App.
Tues. 1/20: Blog Posting 1 Due. Finish Jekyll and Hyde (1700-1719) and read Stephen Arata, "The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde," from Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle (on T-Square). In class, films of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920s) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955).
Thurs. 1/22: Read George Eliot, “The Lifted Veil.” Review Quotation and Citation Procedures in WOVENText and Sample Essays (on T-Square). Incorporating Quotations Video. MLA Format Video.
Tues. 1/27: Blog Posting 2 Due. Finish “The Lifted Veil.” See also the "Industrialism: Progress or Decline" and "The 'Woman Question': The Victorian Debate About Gender" sections of the Norton Anthology.
Thurs. 1/29: Read excerpt from Janet Murray, Strong Minded Women (on T-Square).
Tues. 2/3: Read Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Lady of Shalott” (1161-1165), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Aurora Leigh" (1138-1143), and Emily Brontë poems (1128-1134). Brontë Juvenilia. "Lady of Shalott" song by Loreena McKennitt. Read ch. 3 of WOVENText, "Multimodal Synergy."
Thurs. 2/5: Read Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market” (1496-1507), Charles Dickens, "From Old Lamps for New Ones" (1465-1466), John Ruskin, "From Pre-Raphaelitism" (1468-1470), William Michael Rossetti, "[The Pre-Raphaelite Manifesto]" (1470), and Elizabeth Prettejohn, "Introduction," from the Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites (on T-Square). The Pre-Raphaelites. The Rossetti Archive.
Tues. 2/10: Project 1 Rough Draft Due. In Class Peer Review.
Thurs. 2/12: Read Imogen Hart, "The Designs of William Morris" from The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites and introduction to Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture (on T-Square). William Morris Documentary. William Morris Archive.
Tues. 2/17: Project 1 Final Draft Due. In Class Reflections.
Thurs. 2/19: Read Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface and ch. 1-3. Wilde Documentary.
Tues. 2/24: Blog Posting 3 Due. Read Dorian Gray, ch. 4-9.
Thurs. 2/26: Read Dorian Gray, ch.10-14.
Tues. 3/3: Blog Posting 4 Due. Skim Dorian Gray ch. 15-19 and read ch. 20. Read Michael Patrick Gillespie, "Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde's Novel" and Donald L. Lawler, "Oscar Wilde's First Manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray" in the Norton Critical Edition.
Thurs. 3/5: Film of Dorian Gray. Read Jonathan Goldman, ch. 1 from Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity (on T-Square). Skype conversation in 12:05 and 1:35 classes with Dr. Goldman, author of Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity. Email the instructor with a question for the discussion by 5pm on Wednesday, March 4.
Tues. 3/10: Film of Dorian Gray.
Thurs. 3/12: Project 2: Rough Draft Due. In Class Peer Review.
Tues. 3/17: No Class: Spring Break.
Thurs. 3/19: No Class: Spring Break.
Tues. 3/24: Project 2: Final Draft Due. In Class Reflections.
Thurs. 3/26: Read Flora Annie Steel, The Potter's Thumb, ch. 1-5. See also section of the Norton Anthology, "Empire and National Identity."
Tues. 3/31: Blog Posting 5 Due. Read The Potter's Thumb, ch. 6-10.
Thurs. 4/2: Project 3 Presentations: Groups 1, 2, and 3.
Tues. 4/7: Project 3 Presentations: Groups 4, 5, and 6.
Thurs. 4/9: Project 3 Presentation: Group 7 and Reflections in Class.
Tues. 4/14: Portfolio Workshop.
Thurs. 4/16: INCS “Mobilities” Conference (April 16-19).
Blog Posting 6 Due by 11pm on Sunday, April 19.
Tues. 4/21: Portfolio Workshop.
Thurs. 4/23: Last Day of Classes. Portfolio Workshop.
Portfolios Due on T-Square During Final Exam Periods.
9:35 section (F3) portfolios are due by Tuesday April 28 at 10:50am.
12:05pm section (N1) portfolios are due by Thursday April 30 at 2:20pm.
1:35 section (D) portfolios are due by Thursday April 30 at 5:40pm.
Early submissions are encouraged.