Syllabi and Course Descriptions
18 July 2008

Don Hoffman
English 314: Chaucer and His Age
Details reading and writing assignments. Includes suggested paper topics and annotated bibliography. Excellent.

L. E. Voigts (University of Missouri--Kansas City)
English 412/512: Chaucer (winter 1999)
"Students in this class will read Chaucer in Middle English. All students will read most of the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Graduate students also will read the three major dream-vision poems: Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, and House of Fame. Every effort will be made to understand these writings in their historical and cultural context." Includes assignments from Pearsall's Life (a required text for the course).

Bonnie Duncan (Millersville University)
English 403/603: Chaucer (autumn 1997)
Includes course schedule as well as detailed information on assignments. Undergraduate and graduate students.

Edwin Duncan (Towson University)
English 425.001: Chaucer (spring '98)
"This course will cover--in the original Middle English--Chaucer's two masterpieces, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. In addition to the works themselves, relevant background material will also be covered." Course information, syllabus, and assignments (both a research paper and an oral report) online." Undergraduate and graduate students.

Susan K. Hagen (Birmingham-Southern College)
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Syllabus, with required readings and reserve list.

Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist University)
English 4323/6323: Chaucer's Earlier Poems (autumn 1997)
From "The Book of the Duchess" to Troilus and Criseyde. For undergraduate and graduate students.

Robert Barrie (Austin College)
English 51, Chaucer (spring 1997)
Course syllabus, covering Troilus and the Canterbury Tales, with quick notes by the instructor on the General Prologue, the Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale, the Pardoner's links and Tale, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Prologue and Tale, the Reeve's Prologue and Tale, the Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, the Merchant's Prologue and Tale, the Franklin, and each book of Troilus. Also includes essay ideas for the Miller's Prologue and Tale.

Larry D. Benson (Harvard)
Literature and Arts A-14: Chaucer (autumn 1998)
"This is a Core course, intended for students concentrating in fields other than English or Literature. Selected Canterbury Tales are read in Middle English. Fall Term 1998-99."

Larry D. Benson (Harvard)
English 115b: The Canterbury Tales (spring 1997-98)
"This course is intended for students concentrating in English (though anyone may enroll -- there are no pre-requisates). All of the tales are read in Middle English."

Daniel T. Kline (University of Alaska, Anchorage)
English 421: Chaucer (autumn 1998)
Upper-division seminar on Canterbury Tales and Troilus, with special emphasis on "the social and historical currents of the late fourteenth century and...the theoretical insights of contemporary literary criticism." Includes key questions, goals, requirements and policies, reading schedule.

Maud McInerney (Haverford College)
English 201: The Canterbury Tales (autumn 2001)
Course schedule with assignments: online reading responses, research project/presentation, translation quizzes, pastiches, paper topics, and final examination. Requires Flash.

Melinda Menzer (Furman University)
English 60S: Chaucer (spring 1999)
Course schedule with policy statement, annotated web resources, and library resources (online and in print).

Teresa P. Reed (Jacksonville State University)
EH 401/401g: Chaucer (autumn 1998)
Includes course requirements and evaluation, grading, reading schedule, library reserve list, guidelines for annotated bibliographies, guidelines for response essays and group presentations, guidelines for brief essays, guidelines for seminar papers, sample A papers, and guidelines for pronouncing middle English.

Derrick Pitard (Slippery Rock University)
English 311: Chaucer (autumn 1999)
Reserve list, web resources, course calendar, projects, and requirements.

Please send comments to David Wilson-Okamura at david@virgil.org.