The Sense of Time and Place

Movies are available from the Reserve Room on 24 hour reseve and in AV on the 4th floor of the Library for viewing in AV while it is open. There will be open showings on Sunday evening from 7-9 In Mudd 050

I expect you to attend class. I take attendance. We have 39 meetings during the semester, it isn't that hard to show up. I expect you to keep track of your own attendance as well; "I didn't realize I'd missed that many classes" is not an excuse.

You're allowed 2 unexcused absences, which are absences for reasons other than illness or family emergency. "I forgot, I hadn't read the material, I was working on a paper for another class, I'm in a production of The Sunshine Boys and we had rehearsal, my fish was depressed, I don't do Mondays etc. etc. etc." are not excusable absences. After the 2 allowed unexcused absence your grade starts to go down.

After a total of 7 unexcused absences, you will have missed 20% of the course. After a total of 7 unexcused absences, don't bother to come back because you've just No Entry-ed the course.

Academic or emergency incompletes are yours to take if you want, as long as you are in good standing in the course. You don't need to tell me the story, unless you want to; I trust that you wouldn't take an incomplete without a good reason. "Good Standing" means that you have completed all the work assigned for the first module and at least some of the work for the second

• Attendance at Writing Workshops is required
• Written work must be handed in on time.
• Late essays will be accepted at the discretion of the instructor
• All work must be accepted in order to get credit for the course.
• All writing assignments are judged on the quality of expression as well as content; for our purposes, quality of expression and thought are equally important.

Essay #1 a critical essay of @1500 words

proposal due end of week 4

draft due end of week 5

final version due the day before Fall Break

Essay # 2 critical essay of @1500 words

proposal due Monday, week 12

draft due week 13

final version due the end of Reading Period

The choice of topic for these essays is open; you may write on a particular work or do a comparative essay.

• Essays must be typed, double-spaced, stapled together, with pages numbered.
• Backs of previously used paper are fine for drafts; final version should be printed on both sides of the sheet.
• Essays must have a title, though they don't have to have a cover sheet.
• References should be in the following form: (Wordsworth, "Preface" p. 2) in the body of the text

Everyone will do two brief presentation (about five minutes) with a partner during the course of the semester. The presentation will begin with questions, circulated via the list serve the day before class. The presenters will explain why these seem like important or interesting questions to them, how they devised them, and what they were trying to accomplish by looking at the work through this particular lens.

For the presentation each pair should meet and discuss what the work and what issues, questions, or problems each of them finds most interesting. Each pair can/should meet with me.

Presentations will be judged on the quality of presentation as well as content; thus mumbling, shuffling of papers, general chaos and incoherence count against you.

You'll write a short essay (about 600 words) for every fourth class session; you'll be assigned to a group of 4 for this rotation. These essays will be sent to everyone in the class via a listserve. Short essays are due by 6 pm the day before class (thus if you have an essay for Wednesday you need to post it by 6 pm Tuesday.)