Office: UH 301.40
Phone: 880-7388 (no messages) or 880-5824 (messages)
Email: cathy@cassandra.ucr.edu OR cathy@wiley.csusb.edu
Webpage: http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy
Office Hours: (Very Complex!!) March 30th, Mon. 1:40 to 3 pm. No
office hours Wed. April 1 or Friday April 3. Mon. April 6 &
Wed. April 8, 1:40 to 3. No Mon. office hours April 13 to May
4th--offices hours held Wed. and Fri. for those four weeks, 1:40
to 3. After May 8th, Office Hours, Mon. and Wed. 1:40 to 3.
Class Policies--VERY IMPORTANT
1) Attendance: must attend twenty of the 29 classes to be eligible to receive a grade of
C plus or better. Keep track of your absences and be prepared to withdrawal, drop, or
petition for a late drop if you cannot meet the attendance requirement.
2) Late Work: Work turned in after the class period it is due at is docked 10 points out of
100; after three class periods past the deadline, a zero is entered into the grade
formula. Be aware a zero means you can subtract the total percent of the assignment
from your final grade. For example, if you do not turn in a paper worth 10% of the grade,
you lose 10 points off of your final grade. If you miss more than 25% of the work, you
should drop the course or apply for a late drop (or accept that you will receive a failing
grade due to irresponsibility).
3) Automatic Grade Deductions: the following penalties are taken off the grade of a
writing assignment after the initial grade is calculated based upon your performance.
These signs of grammatical, mechanical, and stylistic incompetence also effect the
performance grade to a minor degree.
No title: lose 3 points out of 100
Not typed when typing required: No credit (0 points out of 100)
Not Double spaced (either some single spacing or double double spacing at any point
in a typed paper): lose 5 points out of 100
More that eight spelling errors (Failure to proofread): Lose 5 points out of 100
No works cited page when sources used: Lose 5 points per source not documented
Plagiarism: see policy below
No page numbers after last name in upper right corner in MLA style: lose 3 points out of
100
Printing font variation and inappropriate use of all capital letters (not MLA style): Lose 3
points out of 100
Inappropriate, non-MLA style parenthetical citations: Lose 5 points out of 100
4) Calculating Your Grade
Class participation 10%
Library assignment3%
Research Paper Schedule 2%
Average of three tests 30%
Critique 10%
Bibliography 5%
Sentence outline 5%
Research paper 5%
Revised Research paper 20%
Final Exam 10%
5) Common Sense about Grades, Drops, Withdraws, Office Hours, and Student
Services
Students often become aware in week 8 or 9 that they will fail a class. By that
time it is too late to prevent the failure. You should use the grade formula and keep a
running estimate of your grade. You should keep track of your attendance, so you can
withdrawal or drop if you will not be able to pass due to failure to attend classes. You
should always go to see the teacher of a class at his or her office hours if you receive a
grade below a C plus. Why? Because a grade below a C plus indicates mediocre or
poor performance, you should find out how you can prevent yourself from receiving
another such grade.
There are important school services that can help you: the counseling center
offers free advice on personal problems; the academic advising office can suggest ways
to handle drops, adds, withdraws, late drops, etc.; the computer learning center can get
you a tutor; the writing center can help you with your writing projects; the writing center's
ESL group can provide a forum for support, learning, and advice if English is your
second language; student services can arrange for appropriate accommodations to any
physical or mental conditions you might have; the computer center will train you in how
to use email and basic word processing; the SAIL or EOPS programs may be helpful if
you are having trouble carrying a full load of courses and keeping a good GPA.
6) Racism, Sexism, and Other Forms of Discrimination
Physical, oral, or written communication that violates the civil rights of others will
result in the student's removal from the class until a meeting occurs between the
student, Dr. Decker, and the student conduct officer. The student conduct officer will
determine if the student may resume attending class or if further action will be taken by
the university. Students are asked to inform Dr. Decker immediately when they feel they
or someone in the class has been discriminated against.
7) Basic Discipline: See policy above for discrimination, and see the school catalogue
for the official discipline code.
8) Plagiarism: Any idea of another person must be cited as that person's idea (ideas
from lectures, interviews, the internet, videos, books, journals, etc.) Failure to indicate
the idea is another person's is plagiarism. Any exact wording of another author
(including as few as two words) used by students must be indicated by quotation marks
or the MLA, indented, long quotation format, or it is plagiarism. Any use of the sentence
structure of another is plagiarism. For example if the original by Smith on page 24 is
"Proverbs are timeless and used in every culture" and you paraphrase: "Maxims are
ageless and found in all countries (Smith 24)," you have committed plagiarism.
Plagiarism receives a grade of ZERO. If the plagiarism is malicious, extensive,
or repeated, you will be sent to the student conduct officer and can only return to the
class with his permission. The conduct officer will determine what to do about your
plagiarism; he has the power to expel you from college if he chooses.
9) Final Exams: The times are listed in the course catalogue; no student can take the
final at a different time without the advanced permission of the dean. Petitions to take
the final at alternate times must be submitted to the dean at least four weeks in
advance. Students needing accommodation for physical or mental problems must
petition student services at least two weeks prior to the final exam for permission to take
the exam in the student center. If you miss the exam, you will receive a grade of zero
unless the dean will write a note asking me to allow you to take the exam.
Class Schedule
Week One
Mon. 3/30 Discussion of women's writing, syllabus, and library assignment
Wed. 4/1 Library session, Meet by elevators in Library
Fri. 4/3 No class
Week Two
Mon. 4/6 Have read "The Yellow Wall-Paper" in Great Short Stories (73-88)
Have read "The Other Side of a Mirror" in Women Poets (490-1)
Wed. 4/8 Library assignment due
Have read "The Storm" in Great Short Stories (89-94)
Have read "You held my lotus blossom" in Women Poets (149)
Fri. 4/10 Have read "Sweat" in Great Short Stories (182-193)
Have read "A free woman. At last free!" in Women Poets (71)
Week Three
Mon. 4/13 Have read "Sanctuary" in Great Short Stories (194-200)
Have read "The House Slave" in Women Poets (746)
Wed. 4/15 Have read "A Jury of Her Peers" in Great Short Stories (153-73)
Have read "Sanctuary" in Women Poets (519)
Research Paper Schedule Due
Fri. 4/17 Test 1 on all material covered up to and during class
on 4/15
Week Four
Mon. 4/20 Have read "The Window" in To the Lighthouse
Have read "I see a man who is dull" in Women Poets (100)
Wed. 4/22 Further discussion of "The Window" in To
the Lighthouse
Have read "Silence" in Women Poets (407)
Bibliography Due
Fri. 4/24 Have read "Time Passes" in To the Lighthouse
Have read "Mother" in Women Poets (175)
Week Five
Mon. 4/27 Further discussion of "Time Passes" in To
the Lighthouse
Have read "On the Death of Mrs. Bowes" in Women Poets (452)
Wed. 4/29 Have read "The Lighthouse" in To the Lighthouse
Have read "Sent from the Capital to Her Elder Daughter" in Women Poets
(159-60)
Critique Due
Fri. 4/30 Further discussion of "The Lighthouse" in To
the Lighthouse
Have read "Birthday" in Women Poets (324-5)
Week Six
Mon. 5/4 Test 2 on all material covered from 4/20 up to and including 4/30
Wed. 5/6 Have read "A White Heron" in Great Short Stories(50-60)
Have read "Alone" in Women Poets (144-5)
Fri. 5/8 Have read "A New England Nun" in Great Short Stories(62-72)
Have read "Tashkent Breaks into Blossom" in Women Poets (375-6)
Week Seven
Mon. 5/11 Have read "The Angel at the Grave" in Great Short Stories(95-110)
Have read "Bird" in Women Poets (359)
Wed. 5/13 Have read "Friends" in Women Poets (62)
Have read "At last love has come. I would be more ashamed" in Women Poets
(57)
Have read "Love Song" in Women Poets (103)
Have read "Homage to My Hips" in Women Poets (682)
Have read "there is a girl inside" in Women Poets (682)
Have read "Spring is short" in Women Poets (174)
Sentence Outline Due
Fri. 5/15 Have read "The Wilderness" in Women Poets (571)
Have read "I'll act out a weird dream" in Women Poets (224-5)
Have read "Glass" in Women Poets (180)
Have read "I'll always dress in black and rave" in Women Poets (201-3)
Have read "She proves the Inconsistency of the Desires ..." in Women Poets
(264-6)
Week Eight
Mon. 5/18 Test 3 on all material covered from 5/6 up to and including 5/15
Wed. 5/20 Have read Chapters 1 to 6 of Pavilion of Women
Have read "Wasn't your mother a woman?" in Women Poets (69-70)
Fri. 5/22 Further discussion of Chapters 1 to 6 of Pavilion of Women
Have read "Doesn't he realize" in Women Poets (161)
Research Paper Due
Week Nine
Mon. 5/25 No class
Wed. 5/27 Have read Chapters 1 to 10 of Pavilion of Women
Have read "Weaving Love-Knots" in Women Poets (123)
Fri. 5/29 Further discussion of Chapters 1 to 10 of Pavilion of Women
Have read "Be happy for me, girls" in Women Poets (102)
Week Ten
Mon. 6/1 Have read completely Pavilion of Women
Have read "At the End of Spring" in Women Poets (125-6)
Wed. 6/3 Further discussion of Pavilion of Women
Have read "Belly Dancer" in Women Poets (687-8)
Fri. 6/5 Have read "Lamenting Tauba" in Women Poets (98)
Have read "Lullaby for My Dead Child" in Women Poets (229)
Have read "I am with Those" in Women Poets (108-9)
Have read "A Weary Song to a Slow Sad Tune" in Women Poets (141)
Have read "A Letter to Her Mother" in Women Poets (10)
Revised Research Paper Due
Week Eleven
Mon. 6/8 Exam Review