English 101: Freshman Composition

Course Syllabus for Spring 2019

02/12/2019-06/06/2019 1 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:45PM - 04:50PM, D - Dunlap Hall, Room D-214 CRN: 63472

OH: D-408

MW 5-6pm

TTH1-2:30pm

 

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

We will be writing expository and argumentative essays. The class culminates in one research paper. Prerequisites include: A grade of C or better in English 061 or EMLS 112 or ACE 116 or qualifying profile from English placement process.

REQUIRED TEXTS AND SUPPLIES

1. The Stranger by Albert Camus
2. Monsters Reader

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Write an academic essay of at least 500 words.
2. Generate ideas using the writing process.
3. Write paragraphs with unity, substance, and clarity that support their main idea.
4. Formulate a thesis statement that clearly expresses the central idea of each essay.
5. Organize paragraphs into a logical sequence so that the central idea of the essay is

   developed to a logical conclusion.

1. Develop effective sentence structure and sentence variety.
2. Construct sentences with precise and appropriate words.
3. Proofread for errors and omissions.
4. Modify drafts, revising throughout their writing process.
5. Identify common rhetorical modes, purposes, and methods of development.
6. Apply critical thinking skills in order to read and write successfully.
7. Identify and locate library resources.
8. Use research and documentation skills in their final paper.

 

 

 

Student Learning Outcomes

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 sources to avoid plagiarism and will use the library’s resources, including online databases, to locate appropriate academic source material.

 

Course Policies:

Attendance: Regular attendance is required. Students with more than 3 absences may be dropped from the class. Two tardies of 7 minutes or more will count the same as an absence. You are expected to arrive on time and remain until the class is dismissed. If you have to leave early, you need to notify me before the class begins. If there is a problem or concern about attendance or grades or you need to make up a major test before graded tests are returned, it is your responsibility to contact me.

 

Readings: You will be required to complete all the readings before the next class session. The readings will be announced in class, so it is important to get in touch with another student if you miss a day. Also note that changes to the reading assignments will be posted on blackboard or via email.

 

Canvas and Email: Make sure that you check whatever email you have connected to Santa Ana College. I cannot add other personal email addresses, so whichever address you gave when you registered needs to be the address you check..

 

Technology: There will be times when I ask you to use your smartphones. Unless I ask you to take out your mobile device, I will mark you late if I see you using your phone like a zombie.

 

Academic Honesty Policy:

Academic dishonesty may result in an “F” on all or part of an assignment and referral to the dean.

 

Plagiarism:

Students shall not plagiarize, which is defined as stealing or passing off as one’s own ideas or words of another and as using a creative production without crediting the source. The following cases are examples of what constitutes plagiarism:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRADING POLICIES AND COURSE EXPECTATIONS

(1,000 pts. possible)

 

Written Assignments (Also noted on the class schedule):

 

Assignment	Points Possible
Fear Response	100
T Chain	100
Psychoanalytic Interpretation	100
Art/Film/Media Assignment	100
Research Presentations	50
Midterm: (Prager / Shaw)	100
Style Journals (five total)	100
Bosses	100
Research Paper	100
QUIZ	50
Participation	100

 

 

**Only one late paper is allowed (and knocked down a full grade). No late presentations will be accepted.

 

Disabled Student Programs &Services

Your success in this course is important to me. Santa Ana College and I are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability that may have some impact on your ability to do well in this course, I encourage you to speak with me as soon as possible. Also, please contact Disabled Student Programs & Services so that we can all collaborate on your classroom accommodations in a timely manner. DSP&S is located in U-103, and their phone number is 714-564-6264. The DSP&S office requires documentation of your disability in order to receive reasonable accommodations. If you do not have documentation, they will work with you to acquire it. I look forward to supporting you to meet your learning goals.

 

Santa Ana College English Department’s Mission Statement

 

The Santa Ana College English Department provides numerous opportunities for our students to develop and improve the reading, critical thinking, and writing skills required to succeed at their chosen careers, to meet the rigors of the writing demands at four-year transfer institutions, and to foster lifelong learning and an appreciation of literature.

 

Santa Ana College Mission Statement

The mission of Santa Ana College is to be a leader and partner in meeting the intellectual, cultural, technological and workforce development needs of our diverse community. Santa Ana College provides access and equity in a dynamic learning environment that prepares students for transfer, careers and lifelong intellectual pursuits in a global community.

 

Suggestions:

     *Communicate with me. If you know you are going to be absent or late, or if you have to leave early, tell me.

     *Come to class. Absences will kill your grade.

     *While in class, do not text, play games, make calls, etc.

     *Type and double-space your papers.

     *Only one late paper allowed (and knocked down a grade).

     *Don't plagiarize. If you do, you will receive a failing grade for the semester.

     *Know the COMP process of writing: CREATE, ORGANIZE, MODIFY, PROOFREAD

     *Remember: If you are having difficulties, please let me know.  

     *SAC will make reasonable accommodations for any student who has a disability. It is the student’s responsibility to inform the instructor of any needed accommodations in a timely manner.

 

Tentative* Class Schedule:

*Some of the assignments will change depending on what we cover in class. Don’t worry if I decide to switch/reassign/certain readings or assignments. All of the homework and readings will be announced in class, and any changes to the homework will be noted in an email or on blackboard.

 

Week(s) 1-3: Researching political platforms, prewriting, class election, Maher response (Islam), Quote Sandwiching (Adios), Argumentation, Contrast, platform presentations, “What is discourse?”, Rhetorical triangle

Readings: “Agonism in the Academy” Deborah Tannen (TS/IS); “Two Views of the River,” Mark Twain (handout); “Portrait of an Ideal World,” H.L. Mencken (100 Great Essasy)

Drafting Political Analogies; TED Talk: Phuc Tran; Peter Elbow’s “Believing Game” (TS/IS), Super-literalism (Adios), works cited page, Cliché Busing (Adios)

Readings: “The Communist Manifesto,” Marx and Engles (100 Great Essays), “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me What Is,” James Baldwin (100 Great Essays)

**DUE**: Political Analogy

 

Weeks 4-5: Techno-ethical dilemmas, prewriting, telescoping, freighting, drafting, Louis CK video response, “They Say” (TS/IS).

Readings: “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” Nicholas Carr (online); “The Future of Robot Caregivers,” Louise Aronson (online); Hipster Beards and post-structuralism (online), “Writing for an Audience,” Linda Flower (online)

Very short sentences, splitting the second, Ethos/Pathos/Logos, Anecdoting, sensory details, rhetorical analysis of social media profile

Readings: “On Self-Respect,” Joan Didion (100 Great Essays); “Salvation,” Langston Hughes (100 Great Essays)

**DUE**: Rough draft of Techno-Ethical Dilemma

 

Weeks 6-8: Researching political platforms, class election, Maher response (Islam), Quote Sandwiching (Adios), Argumentation, Contrast, platform presentations, “What is discourse?”, Rhetorical triangle

Readings: “Agonism in the Academy” Deborah Tannen (TS/IS); “Two Views of the River,” Mark Twain (handout); “Portrait of an Ideal World,” H.L. Mencken (100 Great Essasy)

Drafting Political Analogies; TED Talk: Phuc Tran; Peter Elbow’s “Believing Game” (TS/IS), Super-literalism (Adios), works cited page, Cliché Busing (Adios)

Readings: “The Communist Manifesto,” Marx and Engles (100 Great Essays), “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me What Is,” James Baldwin (100 Great Essays)

 

Weeks 9-11: Michelangelo and archetypes (David), Troy, The Eternal Recurrence, Waking Life clip, Eros and Thanatos, The Unconscious, ex: psychoanalytic interpretation of a horror film, deductive arguments

Readings: The Eternal Recurrence, Friedrich Nietzsche (handout); “Eros and Thanatos,” “Manifest and Latent Content,” Sigmund Freud (handout); “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King (100 Great Essays)

“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, Film clip series, psychology presentations, Campbell and Jungian Archetypes, Outlining, Paraphrasing

Readings: Ann Dobie Packet, The Interpretation of Dreams packet, “Freud and Feminism,” (Online)

 

Week 12-13: Assumptions, “Gender Guess,: poetic analysis, “adding opposition” (TS/IS), Shaw Dramatization, Jamaica Kincaid, Wollstonecraft, Martianing Lens (Adios)

Readings: Assorted poems, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,” Irwin Shaw (online); “The Opposite Sex,” Dennis Prager (handout); “On Discovery,” Maxine Hong Kingston; “A Woman’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?” Susan Sontag (100 Great Essays)

MIDTERM

Readings: Preparation and quote selection (Prager/ Shaw)

 

Week 14: Logical fallacies and fallacy presentations, Thesauruscoping (Adios), Problem Making (Adios)

Readings: “Uncertainty,” Yoshida Kenko (100 Great Essays); “Uncertainty,” K.C. Cole (100 Great Essays)

**DUE** Deductive dream interpretation (Psychoanalysis)

Modernism, Cubism, WWI (Paths of Glory), Poems: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “The Second Coming,” Umberto Boccioni, Georges Braque, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Cassat, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, “So What” (TS/IS)

Readings: “The Death of the Moth,” Virginia Woolf; “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf

 

Week 15-16: “Elements of Postmodernism” (Dobie), film clips, Considering “Consider the Lobster,” Jackson Pollock, Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir (“What is Woman?”), The Rhizome (Deleuze/video), Induction

Readings: “Consider the Lobster,” David Foster Wallace, “Thirteen Ways” (Adios)

Research Presentations, discover your topic, making an argument, using valid resources, quote review, outlines / paragraph organization.

Readings: “Putting it All Together” (TS/IS), **DUE** POMO Problem making

 

Week 16: Research Presentations, annotated bibliographies, paraphrasing review, peer review, evaluate the argument, conferences: Research Paper due