Overheads, concept maps and additional resources will appear on this page.  Click links to open or to download.  Print copies of some of these materials are available in the course reserve binder in the library.

NOTE:  Some of these files will be augmented by additional materials as the course progresses.  An announcement will be made on the “Announcements” page when the files are updated or when new materials become available.

Please find below an information document regarding the remainder of the term:

ENGL 300 COVID19 class plan and instructions

CLASS DOCUMENTS

ENGL 300 overheads

300 what is theory structure of course

Reading Techniques: Theory

PPT: THEORY what is it part 1

PPT: THEORY what is it part 2

PPT: THEORY what is it part 3

CLASSICAL THEORY brief overview

PLATO

PLATO’S PHAEDRUS Class work

PPT: Classical and Medieval Philosophy: Continuities and Discontinuities

Augustine and Polysemy Revised 2020

 Gorgias revised

HUME rev Jan 2020

PPT: ARISTOTLE

HORACE INSTRUCTIONS for Teaching me

PPT: AQUINAS

PPT: MID-TERM EXAM INSTRUCTIONS

PPT: Boccaccio part 1

PPT: BOCCACCIO part 2

PPT: BOCCACCIO part 3

PPT :Sidney

PPT: LIBERAL HUMANISM

PPT: Enlightenment

PPT (this is a companion to the Wilde 2020 PPT linked below: Aestheticism

WILDE 2020 revised

Aestheticism group work FOR WILDE CLASS

 PPT: Arnold / LIBERAL HUMANISM

Note: This PPT is the basis of the Narrated PPT but it does not contain the narrations. However, it might be useful to you. You have received the URL for the narrated version in your UNBC email: Arnold LIBERAL HUMANISM REV 2020 for narration

Note: The Aphra Behn PPT linked below is the basis for the narrated PPT but does not contain the narrations. You have received the URL for that narrated PPT in your UNBC email:

APHRA BEHN 2020

Pizan Discussion Questions for In-Class Exercise

du BELLAY Discussion Questions for In-class Exercise

PPT: Precursors, Posterity, Influence

  PPT: Ancients vs Moderns Debate

 HEGEL and EXPRESSIVISM

 

Sample Sight Passage

 

CONCEPT MAPS

A Brief Guide to Reading Dr. Dickson’s Concept Maps

Concept maps 1: global concepts

Concept maps 2: Plato

Concept maps 3: Aristotle

Concept maps 4: Augustine/Polysemy

Concept maps 5: Aquinas, Hugh of St. Victor

Concept maps 6: Anciencts v. Moderns, Renaissance Humanism, Boccaccio

Concept maps 7: Sidney

Concept maps: Hume

SAMPLE DISCUSSION QUESTION ASSIGNMENT

English 300 Discussion Question exemplar

SAMPLE REMIX WITH ESSAY

ENGL 300 Research Paper

SUPPLEMENTARY TIPS AND GUIDES

Link to Dr. Dickson’s Helpful How-To Documents Page

NOTES ON READING STRATEGIES

General Tips on Asking Good Questions

WHAT and SO WHAT Statements

Core Questions that Concern Literary Theory

MEDIA LINKS

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