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課程概述 |
1. Content: Literary Elements
This introductory course to literature is a one-year required course designed for first-year students at DFLL and covers three literary genres: fiction, poetry and drama. The main focus of this course is two-fold. On the one hand, it aims at familiarizing students with the basic elements of each of the three genres and preparing the students for more advanced literature courses such as survey or genre courses in the future. One-third of the second semester is devoted to examining elements of poetry (weeks 1-7), and the remaining weeks to exploring drama (weeks 8-15).
2. Forms:
On the other hand, this course aims at training students’ cognitive skills, particularly analytical skill. Therefore, besides teacher-centered lectures that shall demonstrate how to understand, appreciate and analyze a text intensively, there will be time for small group discussions in class and three types of writing assignments, including “Response”, “In-Class Writing” and “Essay.” And for the section on drama, students are required to work in a group for giving an oral report to familiarize other students with the assigned text. Worksheets with study questions are provided to guide and focus students’ attention to important issues. Students are encouraged to contemplate the study questions in preview, lectures, and small group discussion, and learn to form their own answers in the process and present them in good writing.
3. Evaluation:
There are no exams for this course; evaluation includes three types of writing assignments and one oral report. Firstly, students have to share “Response” (1 on poetry) in the “Discussion” section on NTU Cool for the TA to grade. Secondly, in “In-Class Writing” (1 on poetry and 1 on drama), students have to answer one set of randomly assigned questions in 60 minutes in class. Thirdly, students are required to write 2 well-organized “Essays” (1 on poetry and 1 on drama of at least 800 words each) on one or two texts chosen from the syllabus. The oral report (of a chosen drama) is on topics including plot, characters, setting, stage directions, conflicts, themes and symbols. |
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課程目標 |
1. Familiarize the students with the basic elements of poetry and drama in preparations for future more advanced literary courses.
2. Train the students’ cognitive skills, particularly analytical skill, by assigning them to contemplate questions, exploring around these questions, collect ideas from themselves and others, and present their findings both in oral and written forms.
3. Motivate the students to take an interest in literature by introducing approaches to understanding, appreciating and analyzing literary texts. |