English 3104

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CC9966" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03ce5e32dkesoe.gif"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Prof. Roberto López</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>     |     </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prof. Roberto López"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> <B>English 3104</B></div> <div> <B>Syllabus</B></div> <div> <B>Text: </B><B><U>Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience </U></B> shorter 7th ed. By Richare Abcarian and Marvin Klotz.</div> <div> <B>General  course Objectives</B></div> <div> <B>         Like other entry-level courses in this department, Engl. 3103-3104 is intended to improvethe communicative competence of the sudents. This course sequence emphasizes the skills of writing and reading over those of speaking and listening. Analysis of selected readings, such as essays, fiction, poetry or drama, and practice in writing compostions with attention given as needed to grammar and idiomatic expressions. Critical writing and thinking will be practiced. </B></div> <div> <B>   Specific objectives of Engl. 3104</B></div> <div> <B>         This course will stress the writer's ability to draw a conclusion about an author and to state it as a thesis, to collect and evaluate evidence from a text and to present the evidence effectively in support of  the stated conclusion, and to argue persuasively about the relationship between the evidence and the conclusion drawn. As with reading activities, compostion work will progress from less to more sophisticated levels, from work that emphasises facts to that stressing inference and generalization, and from teacher-directed to student-independent work. </B></div> <div> <B>         Reading: fiction, drama, and poetry will be the primary reading material for this course. Non-fiction prose may also be used to suppliment the reading material. We will devote more time to items listed under inferential level of comprehension than to the items listed under literal level of comprehension. Such as:</B></div> <div> <B>          Simple implied realtionships</B></div> <div> <B>          Complex implied realtionships</B></div> <div> <B>          Author's generalizations</B></div> <div> <B>          Structural generalizations</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800336600.gif" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Remember:</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" ><B> there is a difference between peer-editing and PLAGIARISM.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000336600.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Attendance is required; excessive unexcused absences may result in a failure for the course. Excused absences may be permitted up[ to a maximum of 3 class hours. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000336600.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Intelligent participation is expected of all studets. It is only common sense to realize that failure to participate in a language course will result in a lowering of a student's grade. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000336600.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">No midterm exam. The final exam will be decided upon by all memberes of the department teaching this course. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000336600.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">There will be 4 compositions and the final for 500 points. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000336600.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">All compositions will be done on a word processor.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000336600.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Quizzes and homework will be at the discretion of the professor. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000336600.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Work done in PENCIL  will </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" ><B>NOT</B></FONT><B> be accepted. </B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>