The Tragedy Of Macbeth Act 2 Selection Test A
Chieko Boteler
Since the course now will be conducted fully online, I have ordered only one text through the UBC Bookstore, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as a Broadview Press e-book (Broadview e-books are very reasonably priced and include great supplementary materials). Through Canvas, I will provide links to online texts of public domain required readingsand put other material on Library Course Reserve in full-text online format.
All but one of the principal texts in the course are romantic comedies. Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) starts as comedy but abruptly transforms into tragedy at the mid-point, Pride and Prejudice (Austen) presents romantic comedy in the form of a novel of manners, while The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) gently satirizes romantic comedy as a genre. In contrast, in Into the Wild (Krakauer) a young man appears to choose Wilderness as a substitute for relationship, with tragic consequence. There will also be a selection of poetry. Except for Pride and Prejudice, the readings are relatively brief and commensurate with what the human brain can absorb during six short weeks of warm and sunny weather.
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to some of the skills of literary study, including the techniques of close reading. There will be two marked in-class close-reading poetry assignments, one near the beginning of the course and one near the end.
Through the study of selected examples of poetry, fiction, and drama, this course will introduce students to the fundamentals of university-level literary study, and furnish them with the skills to think and write critically about literature. Students will be taught the basic concepts of genre and form in literature and methods of literary analysis in order to prepare them for future courses (in English and other disciplines) which require close reading, critical thinking, open discussion, and analytical writing. The emphasis in this section will be on Canadian authors and their works.
Attendance: Because English 110 is conducted as a participatory, hands-on course, regular and punctual attendance is mandatory. To succeed in this course, students must attend every class, on time, and well prepared, participate co-operatively in group work, and consistently contribute to the initiating and sustaining of small-group and class discussions. Please register for this course only if you are able to make this commitment.
You will be asked to write short essays in this course. You will be invited to ask rich and provocative questions about literary texts, find and analyze research sources and write good, clear arguments. Lively engagement is a basic requirement of this course!
This section of English 110 will introduce students to basic elements of university-level literary study by examining a wide range of works in three genres: poetry, prose fiction, and drama. These works are of various literary eras and by authors from diverse cultural backgrounds. Students will be taught methods of literary analysis that should enable them to read each work with care, appreciation, and (one hopes) enjoyment.
Our Literature class has three Units, all in dialogue with each other: a Unit on gender, a Unit on race and class, and a Unit on place (and rootedness, postnationalism, dislocation, naming, and bounding).
In this course, we will consider how contemporary Global Anglophone literatures depict the entanglements that can impede dominant cultural narratives of identity. Our focus will be on three recent novels by David Chariandy, Mohsin Hamid, and Sally Rooney, assessing how factors like race, gender and class affect characters as they attempt to secure a future good life for themselves. We will frame these longer works in relation to critical debates about the marketing, reading, and terminology of Global Anglophone literature in the context of globalization. Supplementing the longer works on the course with short fiction by writers like Ted Chiang, Lee Maracle, Shani Mootoo, and Zadie Smith, we will investigate questions of identity and place such as: how are Vancouver, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada located in the world? What does it mean for queer and refugee subjects to define their place in the world? And how does technology increasingly lead us to see ourselves and others differently, or even in the plural? These and others questions of identity that our course texts raise will help us set the existential doubts about the world that climate change and now COVID-19 pose in relation to other longstanding challenges many face in placing themselves in the world.
English 301 98A involves the study of principles of written and online communications in business and professional contexts; it includes discussion of and practice in the preparation of abstracts, proposals, applications, reports, correspondence and online communications: emails, texts, Web Folio and networking.
English 301 is offered as a fully online course. The use of a computer and ready access to an Internet connection are required. This is a Guided Independent Study course with required teamwork; there is no synchronous content, though there are firm in-term deadlines for readings and assignments.
This course should be of interest to students in a variety of disciplines such as commerce, science, education, and the health sciences. It may also be of interest to students in Arts Co-Op and other Co-Op programs.
The English 321 course provides an introduction to English grammar and its use in everyday communication. We take a descriptive stance when considering the rules of grammar, starting with the study of words and their parts, proceeding to word classes, phrases and clauses, and concluding with the different communicative functions that grammatical structures can perform when we package information in particular ways. This course equips students with skills to identify and describe the effects of derived or deviant structures in various communicative situations and provides a strong basis for further study of the English language and of literary and non-literary stylistics as well as for teaching English. The course includes numerous exercises analyzing sentences and chunks of discourse. There are four short collaborative assignments, two monthly tests, and a final exam counting 30% of the final grade. The prescribed books are Brjars & Burridge (2010) and Leech, Deuchar and Hoogenraad (2006). More details are available on the course website on canvas.ubc.ca.
All students will be expected to write the final exam with Proctorio (a remote proctoring service) in their own personal space. You will need a Windows or Mac desktop or laptop computer that has a working microphone and webcam to use Proctorio.
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to English phonology, morphology, parts of speech, and lexical (word) meaning. We start by studying the smallest units of language, speech sounds, and work our way up to larger structures until we reach the level of words and their meanings. Students are required to become proficient in phonetic transcription, including becoming familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet as it pertains to present-day varieties of English. The course is offered from a descriptive perspective, an approach not situated exclusively in any specific linguistic theory. There are three collaborative assignments, six quizzes, and a final exam counting 40% of the final grade. The prescribed book is Brinton & Brinton (2010). More details are available on the course website on canvas.ubc.ca.
Whether we take Edith Cushing or Abraham Van Helsing at their word, the 19th-century Gothic revival certainly emphasized possibilities for terror and horror in tales of the supernatural. However, these interventions of spectral and un-dead beings often take place in the recognizable present; they speak to its anxieties. Perhaps they speak to ours as well, given our recent fascination with Neo-Victorian representations of the 19th century, such as Penny Dreadful, From Hell, Crimson Peak, etc. We will bring a chill to summer evenings as we examine stories addressing issues of gender and sexuality; class, race, and culture; realism and the supernatural; urban and rural settings, all in a century known for developments in science and technology, social upheaval, and a veneer of respectability, yet with monsters lurking in closets and under beds.
Since the course now will be conducted fully online, any texts ordered will be in e-book/digital format. Through Canvas, I will provide links to online texts of public domain required readings and will put other material on Library Course Reserve in full-text online format.
As well as introducing students to these strands of contemporary ecological thinking, this course will prompt students to consider what reading, writing, and teaching theory and criticism can contribute to the environmental humanities broadly conceived as both an intellectual and an activist enterprise. Evaluation will be based primarily on conventional writing and reading assignments and classroom discussion on theory and literature (the reading list will be available prior to course beginning). But the course will also involve some experiential learning, including campus walks and talks, pedagogical reflection and praxis, and other creative engagements.
BA English allows you to choose from a diverse and extensive range of modules, covering works across time, cultures, genres and geographies. Offering more than 40 modules from across a thousand years of English, American and global literature, English at Royal Holloway is a particularly wide-ranging subject which allows you to develop your passions, debate cutting-edge ideas, and to pursue, if you wish, your own creative writing.
The flexibility of this course encourages discovery. We have expertise in all the major literary periods and you will encounter many new literary worlds and new ways of understanding familiar ones, from the Knights of the Round Table to contemporary literature on global questions like migration or the environment. Most importantly, you will discover your own voice as a writer in an environment which places particular value on independence of mind and intellectual creativity. We are also proud of our educational expertise, offering small group teaching, a special programme of study that introduces you to university level study when you join us, and individual attention at all stages of your degree. We want to ensure that you are confident, happy and academically successful.
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