ENG 260 syllabus > books and materials > required textbooks

You are required to purchase the following books for this course:

• Deford, Frank. Everybody's All-American. Jackson, TN: Da Capo Press, 2004.
• Jenkins, Dan. The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2001.
• Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe. Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
• Miller, Jason. That Championship Season. New York, NY: Dramatists' Play Service, Inc., 1972.
• Wilson, August. Fences. New York, NY: Plume, 1986.
• XanEdu CoursePack for ENG 260: Literature of Sports—Spring 2010 (ID 315477)

All the above texts are available at the SUNY Cortland College Store. You may also be able to find these titles--except for the XanEdu CoursePack--at Mando Books.

And beyond those, you really need no other physical materials for this course. Though you'll have to read our textbooks in traditional printed book format, everything else you'll do, e.g., viewing the lectures, doing the writing assignments, taking the quizzes and exams and communicating with me and everybody else in the class, will all be done online and mainly in this eLearning (a.k.a. WebCT, a.k.a. Blackboard) environment. So all that is actually required of you is access to the Internet and a working e-mail address, both of which since you're registered for this course you already have. (In the subsections of the "main parts of the course" section of this syllabus I'll illustrate in detail how this will all work here online.)

In addition to the above required texts, if you're interested I have for you a list of other works including fiction involving a variety of sports and selected scholarship on sports literature. You can see this page by going to the other subsection, "related readings," of this "books and materials" section of our syllabus. Or you can pass on that right now and go straight to the next section of the syllabus, the aforementioned "main parts of the course."