English 101 Syllabus

Course Syllabus : 101 syllabus Fall 2018 Tues Thurs.docx

Course Calendar: English 101 TueTh Calendar FALL 2018-1.docx

Meet Your Instructor:  Stacy Simmerman

Required Textbooks:

Emerging – Contemporary Readings for Writers, 3^rd edition (Barrios)                                

“Master Harold”. . .  and the Boys  (Fugard)

Ready Player One   (Cline)

The Little Seagull, 3e (Bullock, Brody, and Weinberg)

Course Description: 

Welcome to English 101. This is an intensive writing course in which you will practice and develop your critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. You will learn how to observe, analyze, and evaluate complex ideas and how to communicate clearly and effectively. Throughout the course, we will observe and analyze the images and the language of American culture and society. We will think critically about how these visual and verbal texts confirm and conflict with our own impressions, experiences, and opinions and how they shape our identities. The essays from Emerging will serve as the foundation for class discussions and homework. The Little Seagull covers major points of composition, the research process, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. We will also devote one segment of the course to a play, Master Harold and the Boys, as well as a novel, Ready Player One. Other course materials may range from photographs and advertisements to poetry and film. Although lectures are an important component of the course, group discussions, in-class workshops and writings, and other activities are equally important.

English 101 Student Learning Outcomes (1) 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. (2) 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. (3) Students will evaluate and ethically use primary and secondary sources to avoid plagiarism and will use the library’s resources, including online databases, to locate appropriate academic source material.

**For more information, please read the entire course syllabus (see above).