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Honors Literature: The H-Factor

Honors Literature: The H-Factor. Recent Honors Literature Courses. ENG201: Introduction to Literature: Drama ENG202: Introduction to Literature: Novel ENG203 and 204: World Literature I and II ENG205 and 206: American Lit. I and II ENG208: Modern American Novel

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Honors Literature: The H-Factor

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  1. Honors Literature: The H-Factor

  2. Recent Honors Literature Courses ENG201: Introduction to Literature: DramaENG202: Introduction to Literature: Novel ENG203 and 204: World Literature I and IIENG205 and 206: American Lit. I and IIENG208: Modern American Novel ENG212: Introduction to Literature: Poetry ENG221: Women in LiteratureENG227 and 228: British Literature I and II ENG232: Post-Colonial Women Writers

  3. Approach: Literature as a pseudo-capstone course incredibly connective and cross-disciplinary

  4. How is Honors Lit. different? • Students actually read and want to discuss. • More synthesis—cross-disciplinary applications with Honors Psychology, Sociology, History, and Philosophy. • More ability to view literature as an artifact embedded in culture as well as a shaper of culture. • Great proving ground for new texts or practices—impacts standard classes, too.

  5. What makes it Honors? • Student-centric: • Students choose some of the class readings • Students lead discussion • Students do pre-reading research and report (ex: Duong Thu Huong’sParadise of the Blind) -- Women and Confucianism -- Women and Communism -- Education in Vietnam -- Family Values in Vietnam -- Colonial History of Vietnam

  6. The H-Factor? --more use of critical sources and critical approaches --fantastic web sources --expect a little more on essays - more research - better integration of others’ ideas - original claim based on textual analysis --Independent project and performance art

  7. Performance Art “And describe for me the sweet time of youth, whose picture and feeling has vividly materialized before me …”

  8. Conferencing and Publishing Opportunities Bergen Honors Conference, March 2013 “Kingston’s Voice ‘Thunders and Jingles Like Copper Pans’” Jillian Borrow

  9. Literature in Action Prof. Fran Davidson’s Honors Poetry Class Performs at the Lawrence Twp. Library, March 2008

  10. Springboarding from Literature to Real World Awareness: • Other professors • Family • Friends • Work associates Ideally, they leave class with more ability to critically analyze, but also relate to what is happening in the real world to real people. Reading serious (not formulaic) literature creates more empathy and awareness of the human condition on a human, not just factual, level.

  11. It’s not so much what we assign or how we plan the course -- it’s what the students do with the class that creates the H-Factor.

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