Professor Jolanta W. Wawrzycka


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English 201: Topics in World Literature. Syllabus temporarily unavailable.

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Topic: Nobel Prize Laureates -- Honors.
Welcome to the Literary Salon of World Literature. Throughout the semester we will focus on researching lives and works of selected Literary Nobel Prize Laureates. Our salon discussions, however, will start with the invention of writing and move through aspects of Greco-Roman cultures, medieval and renaissance Europe, to modern literature. Our class time investment will also include Digital Portfolio Research Workshops, with an objective to 1) expose students to hands-on research in the 21st-C. digital environment, and to 2) introduce all students to literary Nobel Laureates whose extraordinary collective legacy has, since 1900, nourished generations of readers. General Education credit – Communication.

English 201 and English 314 can also be taken as Study Abroad courses.

Typically, in my syllabi I provide links to the on-line versions of literary texts by Homer and James Joyce, and to Nobel Laureates' poems (T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney and others). In addition, I use the the following resources in my Engl. 201:

The Nobel Foundation
Guidelines for Digital Portfolios, Reading Logs and Term Papers.
Digital Portfolio Evaluation Form
Presenter's Check Sheet
McConnel Library

  About your professor:
Donald N. Dedmon Distinguished Professor Teaching Award, 2009
Video on Youniversity
TV, 2008
Video, 2008 International James Joyce Symposium, Tours, France, June 2008.
Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology Award:
May 1, 2007
NPR Podcast on James Joyce & "Bloomsday":
June &
December 2006 

A few Joyce resources: A few Yeats resources:
The Joyce of  Dublin 
Clongowes Wood College
Trinity College
Glendalough
Galway - Nora Barnacle's House
The James Joyce Centre  
Island Ireland   
Zurich James Joyce Foundation 
Bloomsday 100 Dublin Symposium   
2002 Trieste Symposium
Sligo, Drumcliffe & The Yeats Country
Yeats Tour Day 1
Yeats Tour Day 2
Coole Park
Thoor Ballylee
Aran Islands
Yeats Sligo Society
SligoZone