Freshman Comp Syllabus

Course Syllabus: Syllabus and Schedule

PRESENTATION SIGN UPS

Meet Your Instructor:  Vanessa Strodel Call, my email is call_vanessa@sac.edu

Course Description: 

Unit(s): 4
Class Hours: 64 Lecture total.
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in English 061 or EMLS 112 or ACE 116 or qualifying profile from English placement process.

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: 

Ansari, Aziz. Modern Romance. New York: Penguin Books, 2016

Barrios, Barclay. Emerging. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2016.

Bullock, Richard, et al. The Little Seagull Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017

Course Learning Objectives: 

• 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 use the writing process to write, in proper 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 evaluate and ethically use primary and secondary academic sources to avoid plagiarism and will use the library's resources, including online databases, to locate appropriate academic source material.​