wits_-_2011_work_schedule_draft_-_final_draft_-_26-11-101

3 First Semester: Global Literature and Film Second Semester: English Literature in Context BOOKLISTS.. 4 Second Quarter: South African Literature.. • Tutorials begin promptly, and are d

EXPECTATIONS AND DUE PERFORMANCE 2

OUTLINE OF THE COURSES

3

First Semester: Global Literature and Film

Second Semester: English Literature in Context

BOOKLISTS

3

LECTURE AND SEMINAR TIMETABLES:

First Quarter: Indian Literature 4

Second Quarter: South African Literature 5

Third Quarter: American Literature 6

Fourth Quarter : Renaissance Literature 7

GENERAL INFORMATION:

17

Consultation Times

You must register BOTH with the Faculty of Humanities (or Law,

Commerce or Science) AND with the Department of English THIS IS VERY

IMPORTANT – Students who do not comply with this regulation may actually fail the course on a technicality This is to be avoided at all costs.

* Faculty Registration Form: listing all your subjects and modules for the year (signed by the Dean)

* Departmental Registration Form: This ensures that you are assigned to a

tutorial group

2

• Lecturers begin promptly, are well prepared and provide leading ideas about the

set texts They do not provide ‘exam fodder’

• Tutorials begin promptly, and are designed for:

o discussion of short stories or poems, facilitated by the tutor but based

on student preparation and participation

o development of skills of reasoning, analysis and essay-writing

(presentation, preparation and organisation)

o discussion of students’ questions arising from lectures

• Tests and essays are returned, marked and annotated, within three weeks of

submission

• Lecturers and tutors are available for consultation, to help with questions

relating to all aspects of the course, for two hours per week, at advertised times

• Term marks are posted before the examinations in May and October

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU

• You are required to read all set works, complete all written assignments and

attend four lectures and two tutorials per week.

• Attendance at tutorials is compulsory and registers are carefully kept If you

cannot attend a tutorial, you must provide a medical certificate or other

suitable written explanation

• Attendance at tutorials includes appropriate preparation: reading the set

text and completing any written exercises

• You must observe the courtesies of the academy If your behaviour in lectures

and tutorials is disruptive because of lateness, use of cellphones and other devices, rudeness, or inappropriate conversation, you may be asked to leave This could lead to refusal of permission to write the examination

• You must write all tests and submit all essays timeously It is your

responsibility to keep copies of your essays and marked tests Marked essays and tests that are not collected will be disposed of for re-cycling

• It is your responsibility to check your term mark in May and October and

assist in rectifying any errors or omissions without delay

• You should respect the professional status of lecturers by observing their

consultation times, as advertised, and using suitable protocols in e-mail and telephonic communication

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THE COURSE

• basic skills for analyzing various kinds of texts – poems, plays, short stories, films

and novels;

• an ability to cope with texts which make contextual demands (linguistic,

geographical and historical);

• an understanding of some of the major literary conventions and genres;

• the ability to select and use secondary material for the elucidation of texts;

• the ability to construct an argument in essay form, and to substantiate

arguments with analysis and textual evidence;

• the ability to understand and to meet the requirements of different kinds of

questions set on various kinds of texts;

• overall, an ability to read different kinds of texts and to write with fluency and

clarity that will be of use in the study of other subjects, and that will enable you to proceed to English II

4

First Semester: ENGL1003 GLOBAL LITERATURE AND FILM

How do literary and cinematic texts work? How do readers/viewers engage with books and films? Focusing on the storytelling strategies employed in prose and film

narratives, this course equips students to engage in informed analysis of both

“literary” and “popular” texts drawn from new global literatures, including Africa and Asia

First Quarter Indian Literature and Film

Second Quarter South African Literature

Vikas Swarup, Q&A/Slumdog Millionaire H.C Bosman, Mafeking Road

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Njabulo Ndabele, Fools and Other

Stories V.S Naipaul, Miguel Street Ivan Vladislavić, Portrait with Keys

E.M Forster, A Passage to India Zakes Mda, Heart of Redness

TUTORIALS: Departmental Anthology of

Indian Short Stories

TUTORIALS: Departmental Anthology of South African Poetry

Second Semester: ENGL1001 ENGLISH LITERATURE IN CONTEXT

Why is the context of a work so crucial to interpretation and understanding? How do authors interact with their historical and cultural settings? Students explore further thebreadth and diversity of literature in English, focusing on prose, plays, poetry and filmsfrom America and the Renaissance

Third Quarter American Literature

Fourth Quarter Renaissance Literature

F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby William Shakespeare, Antony and

Cleopatra Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin

American Poetry

TUTORIALS: Departmental Anthology

of Renaissance Poetry

You must bring the appropriate texts to lectures and

tutorials

6

First Quarter: Indian Literature

Mondays 8:00 – 8:45

U10U10U10U10

Mondays 12:30 – 13:15

OS1SH6OS1OS1

Q&A/Slumdog Millionaire

FIRST QUARTER TUTORIALS

Anthology of Indian Short Stories(to be distributed in class)

A Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Mondays 9:00; Thursdays 15.15 Tuesdays 11:15; Thursdays 15.15

D Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Thursdays 8:00; Tuesdays 15.15 Fridays 11:15; Tuesdays 15.15

PLEASE CONSULT THE ENGLISH I NOTICE BOARD FOR DETAILS OF YOUR

TUTORIAL GROUP, TUTOR’S NAME AND VENUE

8

Second Quarter: South African Literature

Mondays 8:00 – 8:45

U10U10U10U10

Mondays 12:30 – 13:15

OS1SH6OS1OS1

Ms Mania

Heart of Redness

Prof Titlestad

Exam briefing

SECOND QUARTER TUTORIALS

Anthology of South African Poetry(to be distributed in class)

A Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Mondays 9:00; Thursdays 15.15 Tuesdays 11:15; Thursdays 15.15

D Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Thursdays 8:00; Tuesdays 15.15 Fridays 11:15; Tuesdays 15.15

PLEASE CONSULT THE ENGLISH I NOTICE BOARD FOR DETAILS OF YOUR

TUTORIAL GROUP, TUTOR’S NAME AND VENUE

10

Third Quarter: American Literature

Mondays 8:00 – 8:45

OS4U10U10U10

Mondays 12:30 – 13:15

OS1OS1OS1OS1

THIRD QUARTER TUTORIALS

Anthology of American Poetry(to be distributed in class)

A Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Mondays 9:00; Thursdays 15.15 Tuesdays 11:15; Thursdays 15.15

D Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Thursdays 8:00; Tuesdays 15.15 Fridays 11:15; Tuesdays 15.15

PLEASE CONSULT THE ENGLISH I NOTICE BOARD FOR DETAILS OF YOUR

TUTORIAL GROUP, TUTOR’S NAME AND VENUE

12

Fourth Quarter: Renaissance Literature

Mondays 8:00 – 8:45

OS4U10U10U10

Mondays 12:30 – 13:15

OS1OS1OS1OS1

FOURTH QUARTER TUTORIALS

Anthology of Renaissance Poetry(to be distributed in class)

A Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Mondays 9:00; Thursdays 15.15 Tuesdays 11:15; Thursdays 15.15

D Diagonal (2 tutorials per week)

Thursdays 8:00; Tuesdays 15.15 Fridays 11:15; Tuesdays 15.15

PLEASE CONSULT THE ENGLISH I NOTICE BOARD FOR DETAILS OF YOUR

TUTORIAL GROUP, TUTOR’S NAME AND VENUE

14

Presentation of Essays

• Adequate margins (at least 1″ on each side of the page: left, right,

head, foot) must be left for the marker to write comments.

• Essays should preferably be typed (12 point font with 1.5 spacing) If not,

make sure that your handwriting is legible and the overall presentation is neat Essays that cannot be read cannot be marked.

• Proof-reading is essential before you submit your essay Careless

grammatical and spelling mistakes give a bad impression and compromise your work

• Essay pages must be numbered and stapled together.

• A Departmental cover sheet must be attached This cover sheet includes a

PLAGIARISM DECLARATION and without it your essay will not be marked.

• Academic essays must adhere to formal criteria, as discussed below If this

is not done, a marker may return your essay for rewriting

The Academic Essay

• Prepare for writing by reading, reflecting, and planning.

• Your GENERAL AIM should be to write a clearly expressed, logically organised

essay which focuses on the topic which you have chosen, and which conveys

your own individual thoughts and responses

• Your essay must offer an ARGUMENT for the case which you are making

Almost all essay topics require you to present an argument in favour of or

against some proposition An argument presupposes the development of a line of reasoning, so as to persuade the reader of the validity of your views.

• Effective arguments are well-supported with textual evidence However,

merely quoting from the text is not enough Careful and specific discussion and analysis of key passages is necessary to substantiate your argument.

• Analysis and interpretation of a text require you to examine how elements

such as setting, character, and plot combine and interact to form a whole.

The essay topics for each quarter will appear in your tutorial hand-out.

You must write all the assignments set.

The maximum length for each essay is 1500 words (six pages of 1.5 spacing).

The ability to write well is not a mystical talent, but a skill that is learned

and developed.

–- Betty Mattix Dietsch

Use of Sources

Certain standard procedures must be followed for the proper identification of primary and secondary sources in your essay:

TITLES:

• Titles of plays and novels must be typed in italics or underlined For example,

Romeo and Juliet or Heat and Dust This applies to all published works.

• Titles of poems, short stories, essays, and critical articles should be enclosed in single quotation marks For example, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘The Birth

Certificate’

QUOTATIONS:

• Quotations must be enclosed in double quotation marks

• Quotations in prose of not more than three or four lines may be introduced

smoothly into the flow of the paragraph

• Longer prose quotations should be set out as separate paragraphs and indented

on both sides so that they stand out clearly This does not need quotation marks

• Verse passages (from a poem or play) of a line or line and a half may be quoted without being set out separately, but two or more lines must be set out as verse.This does not need quotation marks

• Words / passages omitted from a quotation should be indicated by an ellipsis

(three dots .)

• When a quotation itself includes a quotation, you should use single quotation marks (‘ ’) for the whole and double quotation marks (“ ”) for the inner

quotation

You must be scrupulous about quoting accurately, and in the case of

poetry, you must follow the exact lineation of the original.

DOCUMENTATION AND REFERENCES

• If you quote repeatedly from a particular set text, acknowledge your reference once fully, as shown below

• After that, references to novels can be indicated by a page number in

parenthesis (for example, p 123)

• References to short poems can be marked by line numbers in parenthesis (for example, lines 97–101)

• For plays, you should list act, scene and line numbers in parenthesis (for

example, I.ii.57–59 or 1.2.57–59) This is a reference to Act 1, Scene 2, lines 57–

59 of a particular play

REFERENCE LIST:

• The last page of your essay must contain a COMPLETE list of the works you have consulted for your essay

• The list is alphabetical, beginning with the first letter of the author’s SURNAME

• When you include a direct or an indirect quotation from a critic, you MUST

acknowledge it Each entry in your bibliography will consist of the following:

1 Author’s name

2 Title of work

3 Publication details

16

Book:

Smith, John The Joys of Literature London: Angel Press, 2001.

Journal article:

James, Belinda, ‘The Art of Writing’, English Studies in Africa 12 (2005): 123–45.

Article from an anthology (i.e a collection):

Bryce, Kyle, ‘Rhetoric and Argument’ Writing for Enjoyment Ed A.B Green

Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2000

Electronic and Online Sources:

H Potter ‘Playing Quidditch Like a Pro’ Sports in LaLa Land, 4 July 1999 Available URL: http://www.lalaland.com.sports/int/1999.html

(Ensure that you type the URL correctly, since mistyping the online location will be considered a referencing error.)

PLAGIARISM AND COLLUSION:

• It is of the utmost importance that you acknowledge your sources, whether of general information or critical opinions

• Plagiarism can happen unintentionally if you don’t keep track of your sources, but you will nonetheless be penalised for the unacknowledged use of another writer’s ideas

• The penalties for plagiarism are severe: a plagiarised essay will receive a mark

of 0 In serious cases, you will be sent to the University Disciplinary Committee

and may face suspension from the University

• To avoid these penalties, you should be fully aware of the forms which plagiarismmay take:

 It involves offering as your own words (without quotation marks) sentences or passages which have been taken from another

source, or offering these passages as your own with minimal alterations (that is, changing the sequence of ideas) Even if there is a general acknowledgement of sources, or a specific acknowledgement of a source in a footnote, this mode of writing will be construed as plagiarism

 Taking over leading ideas or an argument from another writer can also amount to plagiarism, if the debt is not acknowledged and if you are merely using a ‘scissors-and-paste’ technique instead of engaging in independent thinking.

18

Plagiarism is the ‘failure to acknowledge the ideas or writing of another’ or ‘presentation of the ideas or writing

of another as one’s own’ and should be read to cover intentional and unintentional failure to acknowledge the ideas of others In this context ‘others’ means any other person, including a student, academic, professional, published author or other resource such as the Internet The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg believes that failing to acknowledge the use of ideas of others constitutes an important breach of the values and conventions of the academic enterprise.

–- Senate Policy on Plagiarism

efforts’ and must represent your own unique endeavour Essays which are clearly the products of collusion can be given no mark.

How Do I Avoid Plagiarism?

Definition of plagiarism: “the reproduction of someone else’s words, ideas, or findings,

and presenting them as one’s own without proper acknowledgment.”

(www.latrobe.edu.au/transition/uni-speak.html)

Analysing literary texts is about your own thoughts and engagement with the material,not lifting the ideas of others and hoping they will think for you Plagiarism is simply a form of academic theft To avoid this crime, make sure you follow these rules:

1 Never use the ideas of someone else (published author, friend, foe, or

anonymous internet blogger) and pretend that they are yours

2 Never copy-and-paste from websites

• Acknowledge every source you use by including a bibliography or reference list in every assignment you submit

• Use quotation marks to indicate a direct quote.

• When paraphrasing, explicitly state where the idea comes from (See pp.9-10 in this handbook for referencing guidelines.) Summarising the words of someone else is plagiarism, unless you acknowledge the source of your information

For example:

i The Sparknotes version:

“In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover aconch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys Once assembled, the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way

to be rescued They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group.”

ii “Jane Smith’s” version:

While a war is going on, an airplane taking some schoolboys from England is shot down over a tropical island that is deserted Ralph and Piggy, two of the boys, discover

a shell called a conch on the sand, and Piggy decides it can be used to call the other boys by using it as a horn Once they assemble, the boys appoint a leader and devise

a way to be rescued They choose Ralph as their leader, and he chooses another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will find food for the rest of the group

While a few words have been changed in the second version, the basic structure of the

sentences and the ideas come from Sparknotes Just because you change a few words,

or alter the order of these in a sentence, does not mean this is now acceptable to pass off as your own work (Plagiarising in this way is common, but very easy to notice

20