Faculty Syllabus
ENGL-1302 English Composition II
Barbara Lewis
Credit Spring 2026
Section(s)
ENGL-1302-038 (16515)
LEC TuTh 12:00pm - 1:20pm RRC RRC1 1314.00
ENGL-1302-039 (16516)
LEC MW 10:30am - 11:50am RRC RRC1 1314.00
ENGL-1302-041 (16518)
LEC MW 1:30pm - 2:50pm RRC RRC1 1314.00
ENGL-1302-044 (16520)
LEC TuTh 9:00am - 10:20am RRC RRC1 1314.00
ENGL-1302-129 (16573)
LEC TuTh 10:30am - 11:50am DIL DLS DIL
ENGL-1302-225 (33983)
LEC MW 9:00am - 10:20am RRC RRC1 1314.00
Readings
Please read all materials in the order they are presented here. Discussions may alter the time need for each work. Works with an asterisk (*) will be handouts.
Week 1: Introduction. Read through the syllabus. Lecture: The seven elements of fiction.
Week 2: FICTION:
Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,”*
O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (498)
Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (692)
Bambara, “The Lesson” (159
Week 3: Chopin, “The Storm” * and “The Story of an Hour” (582)
Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (699)
Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” (659)
O’Connor, “Good Country People” (509)
Week 4: Poe, “The Black Cat” (181)
Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” 366
Boyle, “The Love of My Life” *
Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising” (394)
Paper # 1 Due Wednesday at the beginning of class.
NON-FICTION:
Week 5: Lewis, “Fear” from Sherrod Village
Hurston, “How It Feels to be Colored Me”
Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (585)
POETRY:
Theme: Love
Week 6: Browning, “How Do I Love Thee?” (995)
Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” *
Shakespeare, “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds…” (992)
Donne, “The Flea” (832)
Behn, “On Her Loving Two Equally” (771)
Discussion: How to write about poetry.
Discuss “Flight” from Sherrod Village
Metaphor and Simile:
Week 7: Shakespeare, “That Time of Year…” (898)
Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee…?” (906)
Millay, “Women have loved before as I love now” (996)
Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (908)
Identity, Gender and Context:
Week 8: Browning, “My Last Duchess” (1188)
Rich, “Storm Warnings” (1026)
Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (919) and “Home Burial” *
Plath, “Daddy” (1159)
Paper # 2 due Wednesday at the beginning of class.
SPRING BREAK (MARCH 14-20)
Classics:
Week 9: Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1198)
Dickinson, “Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant” (1061)
Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (889)
Culture, History, and the Harlem Renaissance:
Week 10: Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa…” (765)
Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” (1095) and “Incident” (1099)
Hughes, “I, Too” (1099), “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1098) and “Harlem” (1099)
Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” (1193)
Brooks, “the mother” (796)
Paper #3 due Wednesday at the beginning of class.
DRAMA:
Week 11: Sophocles, Oedipus the King (1840)
Week 12: Continue Sophocles, Begin Shakespeare, Othello
Week 13: Finish Othello (1455)
Week 14: Group Projects
Week 15: Paper 4 due Wednesday at the beginning of class. Finish Sherrod Village
Week 16: Conferences. Submission of grades.
Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course students will be able to analyze and interpret a variety of texts, write objectively, concisely and analytically, demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative research processes, develop ideas and synthesize primary and secondary sources, and use MLA format approrriately.
Office Hours
T Th 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM RRC 1204.07
NOTE OBAM W 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM RRC 1204.07
NOTE OBAPublished: 01/13/2026 13:15:16