Course name: Contemporary Canadian Feminist Writers (Atwood and Munro) (6027; graduate seminar)

no plagiarism is allowed in the class; if caught, drop this class immediately.)

Instructor: Professor Chung-yi Chu 朱崇儀 cychu@dragon.nchu.edu.tw; tel: (o) 22840322-1029

Time and Classroom: Wed. 9:10-12:00 p.m; A414.

Office and Office hours: Humanities #1029 & Thu. 13:30-15:30 p.m. or by email appointment

1. Online stories of Atwood. (Chosen from Collection.)
2. Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad. Canongate, 2005.
3. Munro, Alice. Selected Stories. Vintage, 1996.
4. Munro, Alice. Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014. Vintage, 2014.

(All of the above are not available from BookMan Books now.) Try all your resources to get them online or buy second-hand books, but do not copy illegally. If caught, the fault is yours, not mine.)
 

9      10    Ice-breaking; introduction to Atwood; discussion; Introduction to basic narratology terms

        17    “Wilderness Tips” & “Death in Landscape” (ghost story)

        24    “Bluebeard’s Egg”; in-class response paper (rewriting the fairy tale)

10  01    Brief intro. to Atwood’s novels followed by a comparison with her stories; pre-reading assignment The Penelopiad (pp. 1-108)

08    The Penelopiad (pp. 109-196)

15    final discussion after finishing The Penelopiad

22    Intro. to Munro; “Wilderness Station”; in-class response paper

29    “Differently”; “Carried Away”; response paper in session

11    05    "The Ottawa Valley”; “Friend of My Youth”

12    “My Mother’s Dream”;

        19    “The Bear Came over the Mountain”; Away from Her (film adaptation in class)

        26    “Runaway” vs. “Silence” (skipping the middle)

12    03    “Passion”

10    “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”

17    term paper project outline presentation with PPT slides

        24    term paper project outline presentation with PPT slides

01    07    Term paper deadline (only hardcopy 紙本 accepted; will be sent to Turnitin)

Final Grades:

1. Classroom performance (discussion and presence). (25%)
2. Oral presentation (with slides). (15%)
3. Final paper (including an abstract before the main text: 10⁺ pages or 2500⁺ word counts). (30%)
4. Prepare questions (at least one) related to the reading assignment for each meeting. (10%)
5. Short response papers (1-2 pp.) in class session (20%).
6. If you want to convent my final grade to letter grade, the following is the conversion chart American Universities usually adopt: A≒ over 90, A^-≒ 86-90, B⁺≒ 80-85, B= 75-79, B^-≒ 70-74, CDF≒ fail.
7. Serious warning: if I catch you inserting sentences plagiarized from any online or hardcopy sources, please drop out of the class immediately. You won’t pass this graduate seminar.