American Literature Survey: 1900-1945

Course instructor: Mihai Mindra

IIA/IIIB
Fall, 2006 - 2007

1. ASSESSMENT

FINAL GRADE =
 Average grade of 2 seminar papers +
 1 presentation +
 average grade of 2 quizzes +
 average grade of final paper & final paper presentation (in final
oral examination).

DIVIDED BY 4, on condition the average grade of final paper and final

paper presentation is minimum 5.

Note: Seminar papers/presentations not delivered/made according to

schedule may still be delivered with final papers/made in the final
oral exam. Otherwise they will count for 0 in the final average
grade calculation.

Final grades may be augmented by 10% for active intellectual course

attendance

•Seminar paper & final paper length: 3-4 typed pages (approx. 1000 words
,Times New Roman, font 12, 1.5 spacing)
•The seminar papers / presentation/final paper fragments should belong to
different bibliography texts. General, speculative (not text based)
commentaries and irrelevant information will be crossed out and will lower
your grades. See, hereby attached, seminar paper samples.
•Presentations and (final) papers will analyze, on reading list brief excerpts
(chapters, paragraphs, stanzas) the aesthetic and cultural (ideology, mentality),
aspects of these texts. No general statements/commentaries admitted.
•Final papers consist in more complex texts analyses. They test the efficiency
of the seminar work.
•The topics for the seminar papers should be chosen as follows:
o First paper: bibliography corresponding to Lecture 1 to 7 /
Seminar 1 to 3 (including)
o Second paper: bibliography corresponding to Lecture 8 to 14 /
Seminar 4 to 6 (including).
 •The topics chosen for the seminar papers must be presented as a preliminary
plan (topic, fragment to be tackled, main ideas) in the corresponding seminar
(e.g. Howells paper plans are to be presented in the Howells seminar). Plans
must be approved by the seminar instructor.
•All papers will be written in the MLA Citation style
•Deadlines for the seminar papers: date of the first quiz (for the first paper)
and the second quiz (for the second paper).
•Deadlines for the final papers: a week before the final oral examination.

Papers containing texts, paraphrased texts, ideas from undocumented reference

sources (sources not mentioned in the body of the paper and Works Cited
section) will be graded 0 (zero). Only the first seminar paper may be rewritten.

2. The final examination consists in the student’s oral presentation of the final paper.
The examiners may ask questions pertaining to the historical/cultural context of
the texts approached in the final paper and other texts in the reading list.

3. EXAM PREREQUISITES: 75% seminar attendance and 50% course

attendance (in compliance with Faculty regulations).