ENGL 85
American Novel
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to English majors or students with credit for any courses in 170 series. Development, with emphasis on form, of American novel from its beginning to present day. Includes works of such novelists as Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2020 - TLDR: Great class, lots of social interaction and fairly easy overall With online school it's tough to be social, but Mott wanted to change that. He did a number of things to facilitate social interaction. *Cut the lectures short by 15 min to give people time to talk to each other before their next class *Gave group work assignments every week *Engaged with a student at the start of every class, asking them about their country/ zoom background/ their day *Told people to come to office hours if they just wanted to casually talk I really appreciated all this because Mott and my TA Rebecca are the only instructors I connected with this quarter. The coursework was different since the quarter was online: As far as the work of the class goes for every novel you had to write a paragraph or so linking a passage in the novel to a social issue in the world. There would also be weekly group work to combine the ideas each person wrote in the previous assignment into a group hypothesis. These assignments were graded solely on participation so it was never something I stressed about. There are no tests for the class. Instead your midterm 1 is an essay and midterm 2 is an outline of an essay. Mott pushed the due date for both of these back by 3 days the week it was due and it seemed like he and the TAs were very willing to give extensions. The final was a presentation diving into one of the objects found in the novel. It was pretty easy and interesting The only thing I didn't like is that sometimes Mott would lose me during his presentations. He's super fun and interesting up until he puts up a Powerpoint. Also pray that one of your TAs knows how tech because Mott does not
Fall 2020 - TLDR: Great class, lots of social interaction and fairly easy overall With online school it's tough to be social, but Mott wanted to change that. He did a number of things to facilitate social interaction. *Cut the lectures short by 15 min to give people time to talk to each other before their next class *Gave group work assignments every week *Engaged with a student at the start of every class, asking them about their country/ zoom background/ their day *Told people to come to office hours if they just wanted to casually talk I really appreciated all this because Mott and my TA Rebecca are the only instructors I connected with this quarter. The coursework was different since the quarter was online: As far as the work of the class goes for every novel you had to write a paragraph or so linking a passage in the novel to a social issue in the world. There would also be weekly group work to combine the ideas each person wrote in the previous assignment into a group hypothesis. These assignments were graded solely on participation so it was never something I stressed about. There are no tests for the class. Instead your midterm 1 is an essay and midterm 2 is an outline of an essay. Mott pushed the due date for both of these back by 3 days the week it was due and it seemed like he and the TAs were very willing to give extensions. The final was a presentation diving into one of the objects found in the novel. It was pretty easy and interesting The only thing I didn't like is that sometimes Mott would lose me during his presentations. He's super fun and interesting up until he puts up a Powerpoint. Also pray that one of your TAs knows how tech because Mott does not
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