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Computers and Tutoring in TLC: Bldg 5, Room 5100 Room 7312, Course Dates: 8/17 – 12/14
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CRN #87409 Schedule #80319 – Engl 110AE, Units 3.0
"A person needs at intervals to separate from family
and companions and go to new places.
One must go without familiars in
order to be open to influences, to change" --Katharine Butler Hathaway
"As the traveler who has
once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,
so a knowledge of one
other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily,
to
appreciate more lovingly, our own.
--Margaret Mead
Course Prerequisites:
Completion of English
100 or 105 with a letter grade of “C” or better. Transfer: UC; CSU (A2, A3, C2).
Course Objectives: By the end of the semester, you will have developed
a strong understanding of what it means to think, read, and write critically as
these skills apply to the analysis of fiction, poetry, drama, and literary
criticism. Through the writing and
reading you do in this course, you will be able to understand the relationship
between meaning in literature and language; to evaluate and analyze the relationship
between meaning and the use of sophisticated literary forms and strategies; to
identify unstated premises and hidden assumptions in writing; to recognize the
similarities and differences between arguments of an author and his/her
character(s); to evaluate arguments in literary criticism; and to properly
integrate source material into essay writing.
Required Materials:
Course Reader and HBA folder (both can be purchased at
Skyline's Bookstore)
Books required for the course:
Philippines -- The
Umbrella Country by Bino Realuyo
Britain -- Cloud
9 play by Caryl Churchill
Latin America -- These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by
Latin American Women eds. Marjorie Agosin
Africa -- Season
of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
India -- Diamond
Dust: Stories by Anita Desai
Course Policies:
(1)
Attendance-- Your attendance is crucial
to realize the objectives of this course. A maximum of four absences is
permitted; each absence after the 4th
will significantly lower your grade.
(2)
Late
Assignments--
All due dates are given well in advance; therefore I feel that it is unfair to
the students who complete their work on time to accept the work from those who
do not. However, because “life happens,” each student has two “late tickets”
during the semester; twice students may choose to turn an assignment in the
following class period after the due date. Late assignments beyond this will not be accepted.
(3)
Plagiarism-- Paraphrasing or directly
copying any text and using it as your own without proper attribution, whether you’ve
done it intentionally or not, is plagiarism and is unacceptable and can result
in failure. During the course of this
semester, we will carefully look at how to use outside sources and at the
proper ways in which to document those sources.
(4)
Class participation--- Remember that participation
counts--both for your grade and in
your
life. It is essential that you become
consciously involved in class by participating
in
discussions and contributing thoughtful comments, questions, and answers.
(5) Disabled Students-Reasonable
accommodation will be provided for eligible students with
disabilities. Contact the DSPS office for an accommodation letter (650)
738-4280.
“I’ll find my father through words. I’ll bring him back to life with words. I will build a cathedral of words.
I’ll create a country with my words. In my words I’ll find the universe and I’ll
understand the eternal
present though my words. In my words, I will find, I will end, I will become the words
themselves,
become words, words, words, I will incarnate words,
words, words.” -- Arturo Arias After
the Bombs
Papers: Six major papers will be written for this class. The requirements are as follows:
(1) Due Dates-- Paper #1 (2-4 pages, 500-1000 words) Draft
due 9/7, Revised 9/14
Paper #2
(3-5 pages, 750-1250 words) Draft due
9/26, Revised 10/3
Paper
#3: Midterm essay exam on Thursday,
October 12th in computer lab--bldg 2
Collaborative Research Paper #4: (4-6 pages,
1000-1500 words) Draft due 11/7, Revised
11/14
Research Paper
#5 (4-6 pages, 1000-1500 words) Draft
due 12/7, Revised 12/14
Paper
#6: Final essay exam—2 ½ hours on
Thursday, Dec 14th 11:10am-1:40pm
“A play should give you something to think
about. When I see a play and understand
it the first time, then I know it can’t be
much good.” -- T.S. Eliot
(2) Revision-- Louis Brandels said, “There is no such thing as good writing,
only good rewriting.” Because revising or
“re-seeing” a piece of writing is such an important aspect of the writing
process, each of the papers has two due dates.
Each student will receive feedback on each of his/her papers through class
workshop groups; then each student will be asked to revise each paper based on
peer feedback. .
Please
note: if the first due date for a paper
is missed, the paper cannot be turned in at all.
(3) Workshopping-- This class will serve as a sort of a writing community in which
each student can draw, as well as contribute, valuable ideas, insight, and
advise on writing and presenting
arguments. Each paper will be read, discussed,
and commented upon by student workshop groups of three. Workshop days are very important, and
therefore a missed workshop day will count as two (2) absences and a late paper
will not be accepted. Students without
a completed paper (meeting page and format
requirements) will not be allowed to participate in the workshop. Below are the workshop dates--students must
bring a copy of their paper for themselves as well as for the other members of
their group:
Workshop for Paper #1:
Thurs, Sept 7th Workshop for
Paper #4: Tues, Nov 7th
(4) Format—Papers must meet the required minimum length or run the risk of not
being accepted. All papers must be
typed, double-spaced, have 1” margins, and have a font of 12.
is feminine—weak, delicate, poor…but good
at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom—the feminine
mystique. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The
West believes the East, deep down, wants to be
dominated—because a woman can’t think for
herself” –David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly
Course
Grade: Record Your Own Grades:
Paper
1 10% Score for Paper 1 ______ x .10 = _____
Paper
2 10% Score for Paper 2 ______ x .10 = _____
Paper
3 10% Score for Paper 3 ______ x .10 = _____
Paper
4 15% Score for Paper 4 ______ x .15 = _____
Paper
5 15% Score for Paper 5 ______ x .15 = _____
Presentation 10% Presentation score ______ x .10 = _____
HBA
Folder 5% %
of HBAs completed ____ x .5
= _____
*
Participation 5% Participation ______ x .5
= _____
*TOTAL: (convert total to %) ________
*
Participation includes being prepared each day, meeting
with
me at least once during the course of the semester, * Deduct 1% for each absence over allowed 4.
adding
to daily discussion, and giving your classmates Scoring as
follows: 100-90=A, 89-80=B
thoughtful
responses to their writing in workshops.
79-70=C,
69-60=D, 59-0=F