e-mail:
kenneth.nalibow
Course
Description
Homework
Take-Home
Exams
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Syllabus
Great Short Works of Dostoevsky in
Translation
Required Works:
The
House of the Dead & Poor Folk
Barnes & Noble
Classics Series
ISBN: 1593081944
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Modern
Library Classics
ISBN: 0375756884
The
Double and The Gambler
Richard
Pevear, Larissa
Volokhonsky (Translators)
Everyman's Library (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1400044707
The Crocodile
@ http://www.magister.msk.ru/library/dostoevs/dostf14e.htm
The Little Orphan
@
http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/3369/
Alfred
Rosa, Paul Eschholtz, THE WRITER'S POCKET HANDBOOK,
Allyn and Bacon Publ.,
ISBN# 0-201-78478-5. Recoomended
to all with any writing questions
Required
works
(listed
in the order we shall read them)
Memoirs from
the House of
the Dead
Poor Folk
From The
Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
Dream of a Ridiculous
Man
The Christmas
Tree and
a Wedding
The Honest Thief
The Gambler
From
The Best Short Stories of
Dostoevsky
White Nights
The Peasant Marei
The Crocodile (on-line translation of the
work)
The
Double
The
Little Orphan (on-line translation of the
work)
Course
Objectives
- To
acquaint students with a large amount of Dostoevsky's short fiction
- To
discuss and analyze the works chosen for the course
- To become
acquainted with the political, social and literary milieu in these
works appeared
- To
explain connections among Dostoevsky's works
- To
clarify connections between these works and other works of 19th and
20th century Russian Literature
Course Grading
Take-home
hour exams - at least 2 during the semester
50%
Class
preparedness and
participation
20%
Take home or
oral final exam (your
choice)
30%
Explanation
-
Grade for
classroom preparedness and performance
This is a discussion course. In order for the course to be successful
and
interesting, it is necessary that you are present, that you are
prepared
(having read the assigned reading), and that you are willing and able
to discuss
the literature. A performance grade based on these criteria will be
assigned to
each student.
You will have a choice of written
or an
oral take-home final
Many
people normally choose to write
the take-home exam. Those who are very comfortable with discussion from
classroom experience and who have earned an "A" on both written hour
exams, may choose
to set a time to take the final exam orally on a one-to-one basis with
the
instructor. Especially those interested in graduate work can
benefit
from this format, since MA and Ph.D. comprehensive exams normally
comprise
both a written and an oral section. Undergraduate work often
limits
the student's oportunity to experience a serious, intellectually based,
oral exam.
A basic difference between my oral exam and one for an advanced degree
is
that examiners for advanced degrees do not mind intimidating their
candidates.
That is certainly NOT my goal in this format!
Absence
for Religious Holidays
Religious
Holidays: Students have the right to practice
the
religion of their choice. Each semester students should submit in
writing
to
their instructors by the end of the second full week of classes their
documented religious holiday schedule for the semester. Faculty must
permit
students who miss work for the purpose of religious observance to make
up this
work.