English 101 Syllabus

Course Syllabus: English 101 Hybrid Syllabus - Intersession 2018 (pdf)

Meet Your Instructor: Greetings! My name is Mujib Tahir. I have been teaching for more than four years. This is my fifth semester at SAC. As you are now, I too attended community college before transferring to CSUF. I am glad I went the community college route, and I hope that after successful completing your education here you will agree that the education and experience gained here better prepared you to continue your education and begin your professional career.

Course Description: Expository and argumentative essays and the research paper. Special interest sections described in schedule of classes.  Students may be referred to the Learning Center.

Textbook Information: Jacobus, Lee A. A World of Ideas. 9^th Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 

Additional Course Information: To access the course on Canvas, use the following url: rsccd.instructure.com. Use your WebAdvisor ID and password to log in. In the Dashboard, click on ENGL101 #44170.

COMMUNICATION: We will communicate in this course by discussion board posts and email. To ensure that you will receive notifications from me, register current email address in “Notifications” on Canvas.

For non-technology, course-related issues, please email me. For emails sent M-F between 8am-4pm, you can generally expect a reply from me within 24 hours. Emails sent during the weekend will receive a reply on Monday.

Student Learning Objectives: 

• Students will use the writing process to write, in MLA format, academic essays, including a documented research paper, using appropriately chosen details, organizational strategies, more complex sentence variety, and sufficiently correct grammar, punctuation, effective word choice, and style.
• Students will be able to read critically for literal and implied meaning, identify main ideas, organizational strategies and authors' writing strategies as well as summarize, paraphrase, and analyze written works.
• Students will evaluate and ethically use primary and secondary academic sources to avoid plagiarism and will use the library's resources, including online databases.