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English (ENGL) 212

Poetry and Plays (Revision 3)

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Delivery Mode: Individualized study online or grouped study

Credits: 3

Area of Study: Humanities

Prerequisite: None. Students are strongly urged to take ENGL 211.

Precluded Course: ENGL 210. (ENGL 212 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for ENGL 210).

Centre: Centre for Language and Literature

ENGL 212 has a Challenge for Credit option.

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Overview

ENGL 212 introduces forms of poetry, with a wide variety of examples from Shakespeare to Atwood, examining themes, structure, style, and imagery.

In the second unit, the course introduces the elements and forms of drama, and provides an historical perspective on the development of drama, with reference to three plays: a tragedy from the sixteenth century, a tragi-comedy from the early twentieth century, and a modern comedy.

Outline

Unit 1: Poetry

Unit 2: Plays

Evaluation

To receive credit for ENGL 212, you must submit all of these assignments to pass English 212, and require an overall grade of “D” (50 percent) and at least 50 percent on the final examination to pass the course. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

Essay 1 Essay 2 Essay 3 Exam Total
10% 25% 25% 40% 100%

The final examination for this course must be taken online with an AU-approved exam invigilator at an approved invigilation centre. It is your responsibility to ensure your chosen invigilation centre can accommodate online exams. For a list of invigilators who can accommodate online exams, visit the Exam Invigilation Network.

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Ibsen, Henrik. Four Major Plays. Trans. James McFarlane and Jens Arup. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1998.

Murfin, Ross, and Supryia M. Ray. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: New York: Bedford / Martin's, 2009.

Shakespeare, William. Othello. 2nd revised ed. New York: Penguin Signet Classic, 1998.

Stott, Jon C., Raymond E. Jones, and Rick Bowers, ed. The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry. 5th ed. Toronto: Nelson, 2012.

Other materials

The course materials include two study guides, a student manual, and two CDs: Cohen, Leonard. The Best of Leonard Cohen. Don Mills, ON: CBS Records, 1975 and McKennitt, Loreena. The Visit. Stratford, ON: Quinlan Road, 1994.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the ENGL 212 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least 50 per cent on the examination, and a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) overall.

Critical Essay Exam Total
50% 50% 100%

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

Opened in Revision 3, January 8, 2008.

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Last updated by SAS  07/07/2014 16:42:09