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Course Description
Homework
Take-Home Exams
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Syllabus
Great Short Works of Dostoevsky in Translation

Required Works:

The House of the Dead & Poor Folk
Barnes & Noble Classics Series
ISBN: 1593081944

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Modern Library Classics
ISBN: 0375756884

The Double and The Gambler
Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky (Translators)
Everyman's Library (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1400044707

The Crocodile
@ http://www.magister.msk.ru/library/dostoevs/dostf14e.htm

The Little Orphan
  http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/3369/

Alfred Rosa, Paul Eschholtz, THE WRITER'S POCKET HANDBOOK, Allyn and Bacon Publ.,
 ISBN# 0-201-78478-5.   Recoomended to all with any writing questions 


Required works (listed in the order we shall read them)

Memoirs from the House of the Dead

Poor Folk

From  The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky
    Notes from Underground
    Dream of a Ridiculous Man
    The Christmas Tree and a Wedding
    The Honest Thief

The Gambler

From   The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky
    White Nights
    The Peasant Marei

The Crocodile (on-line translation of the work)

The Double

The Little Orphan  (on-line translation of the work)

Course Objectives


Course Grading

Take-home hour exams - at least 2 during the semester      50%

Class preparedness and participation                                    20%
Take home or oral final exam (your choice)                          30%

Explanation - Grade for classroom preparedness and performance

This is a discussion course. In order for the course to be successful and interesting, it is necessary that you are present, that you are prepared
(having read the assigned reading), and that you are willing and able to discuss the literature. A performance grade based on these criteria will be
assigned to each student.


You will have a choice of written or an oral take-home final

Many people normally choose to write the take-home exam. Those who are very comfortable with discussion from classroom experience and who have earned an "A" on both written hour exams, may choose to set a time to take the final exam orally on a one-to-one basis with the instructor.  Especially those interested in graduate work can benefit from this format, since MA and Ph.D. comprehensive exams normally comprise both a written and an oral section.  Undergraduate work often limits the student's oportunity to experience a serious, intellectually based, oral exam. A basic difference between my oral exam and one for an advanced degree is that examiners for advanced degrees do not mind intimidating their candidates.  That is certainly NOT my goal in this format!


Absence for Religious Holidays

Religious Holidays:  Students have the right to practice the religion of their choice. Each semester students should submit in writing
to their instructors by the end of the second full week of classes their documented religious holiday schedule for the semester. Faculty must permit
students who miss work for the purpose of religious observance to make up this work.