Willy Conley & The Flying Words Project
(A Film & Literature Analysis) |
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ENG 49091
Senior Seminar |
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LAST UPDATED: 11/18/09 |
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Dr. Carol L. Robinson
Assistant Professor of English
Kent State University Trumbull
Emails: clrobins@kent.edu
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Fall 2009
Aug 31, 2009 - Dec 13, 2009
10:00 am - 11:15 pm Tuesdays & Online Weekly
Enter the course CYBERROOM:
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Username and password required to enter the cyberroom.
Please email me (clrobins@kent.edu)
just before at the very start of the semester to receive your username and password.
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Course Focus
The written word became established in English literature during the Middle Ages, and that establishment has been rivaled by contemporary electronic media (and celluloid origins) since the mid-1800s. But does the advancement and change of communication technology signal a final leap from the Middle Ages? Semiotic and linguistic analyses allow us to appreciate how meaning translates from one medium to another, such as how spoken English is adapted into written English, or a written work is adapted into film. Such analyses also allow us to appreciate how meaning translates from one language into another, such as from Old English into Modern English or from American Sign Language into English. Indeed, such analyses raise questions about both the diverse and similar natures of rhetoric, prose, poetry, drama, and performance from one dimension to another, such as from stage to page, page to stage, page to film, or stage to film. It is under this tent of inquiry that we will appreciate the works of:
Members of the class will also be marginally involved in the KSU Trumbull Theatre production of Conley’s FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN & CHILD (a modernized English/ASL adaptation of the medieval morality play, Everyman) and have an opportunity to have lunch or dinner with the play's author.
This course will be taught in a hybrid (partially in classroom, partially online) structure. It serves as the final requirement for English Literature majors; however, it may be taken for credit with permission by the instructor (restrictions apply), or may be audited by anyone.
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Strongly Recommended Texts
 A Handbook to Literature 11th Edition (Paperback) William Harmon & Hugh Holman. Prentice Hall, 2008. ISBN-10: 0136014399; ISBN-13: 978-0136014393
No Walls of Stone: An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers (Hardcover), Jill Jepson (Editor) Gallaudet University Press, 1992. ISBN-10: 156368019X; ISBN-13: 978-1563680199
Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology. John Lee Clark (Editor) Gallaudet University Press, 2009. ISBN-10: 1563684136; ISBN-13: 978-1563684135
Deaf American Literature: From Carnival to the Canon (Hardcover). Cynthia Peters. Gallaudet University Press, 2000. ISBN-10: 1563680947; ISBN-13: 978-1563680946
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature. H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Heidi M. Rose, and Jennifer L. Nelson (Editors). University of California Press, 2006. ISBN-10: 0520229762; ISBN-13: 978-052022976
Talking Hands. Fox, Margalit. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-7432-4713-9
Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook. Lois Bragg, Ed. NYU Press. ISBN-10: 0814798535; ISBN-13: 978-0814798539
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Assignments & Grades
Online Forum (50%)
The central online discussion group is the Senior Seminar Forum; however, you will also be required to participate in the Everyman for Everyone forum. (Both forums are located at
http://houndingproductions.net/bb/. ) You do not need to use your KSU email address to subscribe to this group; however, you MUST INFORM ME OF YOUR USERNAME so that I can grade your participation. Entries will be graded for each set's collective depth of thought (they will be measured together, not individually), including in terms of how well they reflect having read the texts, having viewed the films, having taken notes from class lecture and discussion, having drawn from and responded to other entries made to the Forum, as well as overall critical analysis. Current grades and feedback on your Forum participation work will be posted as part of your mid-term grade update and as part of your final grade update.
Researched Analytical Essay Project (50%)
Students must first turn in a proposal, complete with annotate bibliography, which is worth 50 points. The final paper must be 20-25 pages long (300 points). Toward the end of the semester, all students are required to present a condenced (20 minute) version of their research projects (and the presentation is worth 50 points). Completed drafts of the research projects must be posted one week prior to the presentation, and everyone is required to read to respond to each project presentation. Each student must propose a research project that constructively contributes to the literary and/or cinematic analysis of works by Willy Conley, Peter Cook and/or the Flying Words Project. The project involves the following:
PROJECT PROPOSAL (5%): This is a 300-500 word proposal describing, in great detail, the focus of your project, including preliminary questions you plan to explore, a preliminary annotated bibliography of quality sources, both primary and secondary, and a plan for further research and analysis. To properly annotate your bibliography, you will need to have read/viewed your sources completely.
ROUGH DRAFT (10%): This will be due toward the end of the semester. It will be posted on a Wiki and later subjected to peer evaluation.
WIKI PEER EDITING EVALUATION (5%): Each student must provide a quality evaluation of a partner's work, as presented in rough draft form on the Wiki and in presentation form.
FINAL DRAFT (25%): The final paper must be 20-25 pages long.
PRESENTATION (5%): Each student will make a class presentation (no more than 20 minutes) of the research project.
More information on this project is forthcoming.
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Students with Disabilities
Kent State University recognizes its responsibility for creating an institutional climate in which students with disabilities can succeed. In accordance with university policy, if you have a documented disability, you may request accommodations to obtain equal access and to promote your learning in this class. Please contact the disability coordinator on campus, Elaine Shively, office 242E in the Learning Center, Classroom/Administration Building, (330) 675-8932 or eshively@kent.edu. After your eligibility for accommodations is determined, you will be given a letter, which when presented to instructors, will help us know best how to assist you.
A Note on Plagiarism
Plagiarism & Cheating: Cheating and plagiarism constitute fraudulent misrepresentation for which no credit can be given and for which appropriate sanctions are warranted and will be applied. The university affirms that acts of cheating and plagiarism by students constitute a subversion of the goals of the institution, have no place in the university and are serious offenses to academic goals and objectives, as well as to the rights of fellow students.
"Cheat" means to intentionally misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of academic work so as to accrue undeserved credit, or to cooperate with someone else in such misrepresentation. Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
1. Obtaining or retaining partial or whole copies of examinations, tests or quizzes before these are distributed for student use;
2. Using notes, textbooks or other information in examinations, tests and quizzes, except as expressly permitted;
3. Obtaining confidential information about examinations, tests or quizzes other than that released by the instructor;
4. Securing, giving or exchanging information during examinations;
5. Presenting data or other material gathered by another person or group as one's own;
6. Falsifying experimental data or information;
7. Having another person take one's place for any academic performance without the specific knowledge and permission of the instructor;
8. Cooperating with another to do one or more of the above;
9. Using a substantial portion of a piece of work previously submitted for another course or program to meet the requirements of the present course or program without notifying the instructor to whom the work is presented; and
10. Presenting falsified information in order to postpone or avoid examinations, tests, quizzes, or other academic work.
“Plagiarize” means to take and present as one’s own a material portion of the ideas or words of another or to present as one’s own an idea or work derived from an existing source without full and proper credit to the source of the ideas, words, or works. As defined, plagiarize includes, but is not limited to:
a. The copying of words, sentences and paragraphs directly from the work of another without proper credit;
b. The copying of illustrations, figures, photographs, drawings, models, or other visual and nonverbal materials, including recordings of another without proper credit; and
c. The presentation of work prepared by another in final or draft form as one's own without citing the source, such as the use of purchased research papers.
Academic Sanctions, From Section D
The following academic sanctions are provided by this rule for offenses of cheating or plagiarism. Kent campus instructors shall notify the department chairperson and the student conduct office each time a sanction is imposed. Regional campus instructors shall notify the regional campus dean and the student conduct officer each time a sanction is imposed. Regional campus student conduct officer shall notify the Kent student conduct office each time a sanction is imposed by a regional campus Instructor. The following academic sanctions are provided by this rule for offenses of cheating or plagiarism. In those cases the instructor may:
1. Refuse to accept the work for credit; or
2. Assign a grade of "F" or zero for the project, test, paper, examination or other work in which the cheating or plagiarism took place; or
3. Assign a grade of "F" for the course in which the cheating or plagiarism took place; and/or;
4. Recommend to the department chair or regional campus dean that further action specified in the rule be taken. The department chairperson or regional campus dean shall determine whether or not to forward to the academic dean or to the vice president for the extended university a recommendation for further sanction under this rule. Please see University Policy for more information.
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Carol L. Robinson
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