| Text: Ten On Ten ed. Robert Atwan Description
This course focuses on literary
nonfiction--essays, memoirs, profiles, or criticism that aspires not only
to inform but also to employ language aesthetically and to prompt
reflection on experience.
Students will explore, through
literature and critical theory, the following questions: What is literary
nonfiction? How are works of literary nonfiction crafted, read and
interpreted? How are they different from and similar to other forms of
literary expression? How does form affect interpretation?
Course
Goals
Instructors intend that students taking Nonfiction courses
will
* understand the concept of literary genre
* identify dominant
features of literary nonfiction
* build a familiar vocabulary of basic
critical terms for analyzing literature
* demonstrate the ability to
analyze specific works of literary nonfiction on the basis of the above
abilities
Evaluation
Final grades will be figured
approximately in this way: 60% for the three exams, 20% for the notebooks,
and 20% for the exercises and quizzes.
Final letter grades will be
assigned as follows:
| A 93%-100% |
C 73%-76% |
| A- 90%-92% |
C- 70%-72% |
| B+ 87%-89% |
D+ 67%-69% |
| B 83%-86% |
D 63%-66% |
| B- 80%-82% |
D- 60%-62% |
| C+ 77%-79% |
F 0%-59% |
Policies
You are expected to be in class and participating.
It will not be possible for you to do well on the exams and in the course
unless you come to class, take notes, and review for the exams. In
addition, there will be several unannounced quizzes that can only be
turned in during specific class sessions.
Office hours
I
will give you my office hours in class. If you need to contact me, phone
the main switchboard at 398-5411 and ask to be connected to my office. Or
call 398-5699 and enter 5840. You can leave a voice-mail message if I am
not there. My home phone is 351-8029 (Iowa City). My cell phone number is
621-6649. My e-mail address is
dom@domfranco.com
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