Course Title: English (Reading) Instructor’s Name: Byoung-Kyo Lee
2001 Spring Semester
Course Number: UA 124-23
Class Hours: Tue 2,3, Thur 1 Office: 종합관 509 (Tel: 2123-4707)
Office Hours: Tue 1:00-2:00 or by appointment E-Mail:
COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Objective: Reading for Writing
This course is tailored and customized to improve students’ English reading skills in this digital and cyber world. Taking it into account that English is regarded as a medium of global communication, the students will be required to actively participate in the reading process. Basically, the students will be able to get a big picture of the reading process by dealing with the reading strategies one by one in this course. On top of this, the knowledge of the reading process will challenge students to write an essay as a team project at the end of the semester.
Primary Text:
Brenda Wegmann, Miki Prijic Knezevic and Marilyn Berstein. Mosaic Two: A Reading Skills Book. Third Edition. 1996.
Course Requirements
(A) Students are required to read the assigned reading materials in advance and to take part in all class activities such as group problem solving, discussions, and team project, etc.
(B) Final Paper: Essay topics and other details will be announced in class.
(C) Attendance: Unnoticed absence will be allowed 5 times.
Grading Policy
Mid-term Exam: 30%
Final Exam:30%
Class Participation & Assignments:30%
Attendance:10%
-If your total absences exceed five times, your absences will “F”atally influence your grade. If not, this portion will be included in the Class Participation.
Tentative Course Schedule
Week 1:3/2-3/10Orientation; Unit 1-1 “Native Americans”
Guessing New Words from Context
Critical Evaluation
Reading in General
Week 2:3/12-3/17“Native Americans” cont’d
Week 3: 3/19-3/24Unit 2-1 “Adventurers of Today”
Skimming for the Main Idea
Week 4:3/26-3/31Unit 3-3 “I Want a Wife”
Recognizing an Ironic Tone
Recognizing Point of View
Week 5: 4/2-4/7Unit 4-1 “Against All Odds”
Evaluating Content (T/F Questions)
Week 6:4/9-4/14“Against All Odds” cont’d
Supplementary reading materials
Week 7:4/16-4/21Unit 5-2 “Conversations in Malaysia”
Paraphrasing Complicated Passages
Week 8:4/23-4/28Mid-term Exam.
Week 9:4/30-5/5Unit 6-1 “A Memory for All Seasoning”
Underlining and Marginal Glossing
Finding Support for or against a hypothesis
Week 10: 5/7-5/12Special Lecture on Writing
Brainstorming: Team Project Writing (I)
Week 11: 5/14-5/19Special Lecture on Writing (II)
Word Bubbles
How to Write a Thesis Statement?
How to Organize a Paragraph?
Week 12: 5/21-5/26Team Project Writing (II)
Draft Due
Week 13: 5/28-6/2Unit 10-1 “Doctor’s Dilemma: Treat or Let Die?”
Using Clues to Make Inferences
Matching General Ideas and Specific Examples
Week 14: 6/4-6/9“Doctor’s Dilemma: Treat or Let Die?” cont’d.
Supplementary reading materials
Week 15:6/11-6/16Supplementary reading materials
Review
Reading in General
Week 16:6/18-6/21Final Exam.