Final Exam

The final exam will take place on April 23, at 8:30am, in Buch B215.

The exam will consist of two parts:

• The first part (40%) will comprise short discussions (definitions and descriptions) of key concepts drawn from the list here. You will be given seven of these concepts, and asked to write a brief (paragraph or two) definition and description of five of them. In your account, you should both a) say something about the concept in general and b) give at least one specific example from among the texts that we have studied or discussed, and explain how this example illustrates the concept in question.
• The second part (60%) will comprise an essay in response to a question taken from a list of possible questions provided in advance. (These questions are now available.)

To give you a still better idea of what the exam will look like, you can consult the exam from a course I taught a couple of years ago. Your exam will look very similar (but will be in person, rather than take-home; and you will have a choice of concepts in part I).

You are allowed to bring to the exam a “cheat sheet”: notes and ideas, key quotations or essay outlines, or whatever else you think will be useful. This sheet should be no larger than one side of a standard US Letter (8.5″ x 11″; 216 x 279 mm) sheet of paper.