SYLLABUS ENGLISH 1301.4432 FALL 2011 PROFESSOR: DR. DESI RÉE L. WARD GENERAL INFORMATION College: Richland College Division and Phone: Arts, Language, & Literature, Phone 972-860-7124 Semester: FALL 2011 INSTRUCTOR INFORMATI ON Name: Desirée L. Ward Office Telephone: 972-238-6140 (Adjunct Faculty ACCESS Office, leave a message) E-mail Address: [email protected] Office Number: PRONTO/BLACKBOARD CHAT Office Hours (Virtual): THURSDAYS 11:00 A.M. - NOON COURSE INFORMATION Course Number: English 1301 Section Number: 4432 Credit Hours: 3 Class Meeting Time: Online Course Title: Composition I Course Description (Catalog): ENGL 1301 Composition I (3) This is a Texas Common Course Number. This course focuses on student writing. It emphasizes reading and analytical thinking and introduces research skills. Students practice writing for a variety of audiences and purposes. (3 Lec.) Coordinating Board Academic Approval Number 2304015112Course Prerequisites: Prerequisite: One of the following must be met: (1) Developmental Reading 0093 AND Developmental Writing 0093; (2) English as a Second Language (ESOL) 0044 AND 0054; or (3) have met Texas Success Initiative (TSI) Reading and Writing standards AND DCCCD Writing score prerequisite requirement. Course Objectives/ Learning Outcomes: Core Competencies: - READING: Reading at the college level means the ability to analyze and interpret a variety of printed materials--books, articles, and documents. A core curriculum should offer students the opportunity to master both general methods of analyzing printed materials and specific methods for analyzing the subject matter of individual disciplines. - WRITING: Competency in writing is the ability to produce clear, correct, and coherent prose adapted to purpose, occasion, and audience. Although correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation are each a sine qua non in any composition, they do not automatically ensure that the composition itself makes sense or that the writer has much of anything to say. Students need to be familiar with the writing process including how to discover a topic and how to develop and organize it, how to phrase it effectively for their audience. These abilities can be acquired only through practice and reflection. - SPEAKING: Competence in speaking is the ability to communicate orally in clear, coherent, and persuasive language appropriate to purpose, occasion, and audience. Developing this competency includes acquiring poise and developing control of the language through experience in making presentations to small groups, to large groups, and through the media. - LISTENING: Listening at the college level means the ability to analyze and interpret various forms of spoken communication. - CRITICAL THINKING: Critical thinking embraces methods of applying both qualitative and quantitative skills analytically and creatively to subject matter in order to evaluate arguments and to construct alternative strategies. Problem solving is one of the applications of critical thinking, used to address an identified task. - COMPUTER LITERACY: Computer Literacy at the college level means the ability to use computer-based technology in communicating, solving problems, and acquiring information. Core-educated students should have an understanding of the limits, problems, and possibilities associated with the use of technology, and should have the tools necessary to evaluate and learn new technologies as they become available. CORE CURRICULUM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: - To understand and demonstrate writing and speaking processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing, and presentation. - To understand the importance of specifying audience and purpose and to select appropriate communication choices. - To understand and appropriately apply modes of expression, i.e., descriptive, expositive, narrative, scientific, and self-expressive, in written, visual, and oral communication. - To participate effectively in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding.- To understand and apply basic principles of critical thinking, problem solving, and technical proficiency in the development of exposition and argument. Course Outline: Last Day to Withdraw with “W” (Drop Date): 10/8 Holidays: - Labor Day Holiday - September 3 at 4 p.m. - Sept. 6 at 6 a.m. - Thanksgiving Holiday - Nov. 24 at 12 a.m. - Nov. 28 at 6 a.m. - Winter Break - Dec. 23, 2011 at 5 p.m. - Jan. 3, 2012 at 6 a.m. For complete information on reading and writing assignments, see the information within the Learning Units on the course eCampus web site. ***Due dates are subject to change with appropriate notice to students via Announcement and/or e-mail. Late Policy: Only Final Drafts of essays may be submitted late with a penalty of one letter-grade per day late, with a maximum of four days late (four letter-grades). Exceptions may be made in extreme situations when prior arrangements have been made with the instructor. Documentation may be required. Keeping up in an online class is critical to success. Once you miss one assignment, it is easy for late work to pile up. Therefore, it is best to keep moving forward. If you miss an assignment, you may be able to submit it during make-up week. Some assignments can be done for half credit during make-up week. For more information, see below the Assignment Calendar. Please manage your time in the best possible way. You’ll find several assignments due on one day, but this does not mean you should wait to do those assignments on that day. Instead, decide when it is best for you to do them, pacing yourself whenever possible (completing an assignment a day instead of all in one day, for example). The due dates are arranged to help you keep up with the flow of the course while, at the same time, allowing you to work according to your own unique schedule. DATE DUE (BY 11:59 P.M. C.S.T. UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED) LEARNING UNIT WRITING ASSIGNMENT CATEGORY POINTS Monday – Wednesday, August 1 Orientation & Orientation Quiz Quiz 1029 - 31 Wednesday, 8/31 1 Class Discussion 1 (Initial post) Discussion 5 Wednesday, 8/31 1 Journal Writing 1 Journal 10 Wednesday, 8/31 1 Class Discussion 2 (Initial post) Discussion 5 Friday, 9/2 1 Class Discussion 1 (2 replies) Discussion 5 Friday, 9/2 1 Class Discussion 2 (2 replies) Discussion 5 Friday, 9/2 1 Review Quiz 1 Quiz 10 Friday, 9/2 1 Class Discussion 3 (Initial post)