Course Requirements:

Classroom explanations and discussions will guide you through the reading and writing assignments. You will also need to do the following:

1) Keep up with reading and writing assignments. The following books and a course packet are available at Wild Iris Bookstore:

• Alcott, Louisa May. Work: A Story of Experience. New York: Penguin Classics, 1994. ISBN: 014039091X
  
• Broomfield, Andrea and Sally Mitchell, Eds. Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. ISBN: 0815319673
  
• Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. ISBN: 0393971570
  
• Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée). Moths. Ed. Natalie Schroeder. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2005. ISBN: 1551115204
  
• Nelson, Carolyn Christensen, Ed. A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles, and Drama of the 1890s. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2000. ISBN: 1551112957

2) Do all assignments before a class session begins (by class, you should have read the text selections listed on the syllabus for that day).

3) Participate in class discussions. Bring texts to class and take notes.

Class Policies and Assignments:

Attendance:
Because class attendance is critical to your understanding of class material, you are allowed only three unexcused absences over the course of the semester. After three unexcused absences, your final grade average will be dropped five points for every day missed. An absence due to illness or family crisis may be excused if properly documented to my satisfaction. In addition, if you participate in a university-sponsored event (music, theater, field trip, or athletics), you must provide me with documentation from an appropriate authority. Whether or not an absence is excused, you are responsible for contacting a classmate or me to find out what material you missed and any work that was assigned. If work is due in class on the day of the absences, the work is due in my mailbox by 4pm that day. One or two tardies (arriving late in class or departing class early) will be excused if the reasons are acceptable and if there is valid documentation. Otherwise, tardiness is unacceptable because it is disruptive, and, beyond any excused tardies, class participation grade and overall grade will be affected (2 tardies = 1 absence).

Class Participation:
In addition to attending class, you are also expected to contribute class discussions and participate in workshop sessions with your peers. Learning is not a solitary process, but one that necessarily involves others and I thus consider class participation a very important part of achieving this class's goals. Because of the discussion nature of the class, I require that you turn your cell phones and pagers off. If you forget to turn it off and your phone rings, do not answer it. If you have a personal emergency and must keep your phone on one day, please discuss it with me before class.

Classroom Dynamics:
Because class participation relies heavily on individuals feeling comfortable expressing their opinions, you must always show respect for the diversity of opinions expressed in this class. You must also demonstrate respect for gender, racial, class, sexual orientation, and ethnic differences among your colleagues and instructor.

E-mail:
As I frequently send timely e-mails related to this course, you must be able to check your e-mail at least once per day to stay informed. Do not use an AOL account for your class e-mail, as AOL rejects as spam all e-mails coming from addresses ending in ufl.edu. If you are concerned that you may have missed or lost any important class e-mails, you can access an archive of all e-mails sent to the class list at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/archives/f05-5061/

Quizzes:
If I think that the class is not doing the reading assignments, I will begin giving quizzes at the beginning of every class. If you are reading the texts as we progress though the semester, you should do fine. The quizzes will be pop-quizzes and will hence occur without warning.

Bulletin Board Participation:
At the beginning of the term, I will set up a class online bulletin board. Each student must post at least five original responses to an upcoming reading assignment and five follow-up responses to others' responses (for a total of ten responses by the end of the term). While these posts need not be polished pieces of writing, I do expect a certain amount critical thought. The idea here is raise issues about a particular reading or group of readings for the class to think about before we discuss the texts in class. Responses will be graded out of ten, with a ten being equivalent to a check for completion. Each post will be no less than 200 words. Original posts are due thirty-six hours in advance of the discussion of a particular reading assignment, and responses to post are due twenty-four hours in advance. The bulletin board is online at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/boards/f05-5061/.

Essays:
There will be a total of two major essays completed during this course (see daily schedule due dates).

• Midterm Essay
  For the Midterm Essay, you will choose two out three essay questions to answer. The questions will come from our class discussions of the readings, and the answers should use the texts from the class extensively. Each question should be answered in 3-5 typed pages in MLA format.

• Final Project
  The final project will be an independent research project in which you will read an entire issue of a nineteenth-century American or British periodical and connect what's going on in the periodical to specific nineteenth-century issues, events etc. that we have been discussing throughout the semester in class. Be sure to look at the fiction, non-fiction, and advisements of the periodical for these connections. For this paper, you will be required to use three outside secondary sources (we discuss how to find them later in the term). The final essay for this project should be 12-15 typed pages in MLA format.

Format:
All work is due at the beginning of class on the day it is due. All major essays should be typed on only one side of 8 ½" x 11" white paper, MLA format, stapled, and be in Times New Roman font. On days when drafts are due (workshop days), you must bring two copies of your paper to class. These copies should be clean, typed papers (the same format as the final draft) and already well edited by you. I will not accept any papers that are not in this format.