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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This Tutoring roundtable provides those interested in tutoring with an understanding of the ESL student writing experience, the kinds of writing that might be generated and why, and offers insight into the needs and concerns of these writers. Students in this class will have the opportunity to learn about and apply useful and effective tutoring strategies and tools for working with ESL students. Upon completion of this course, students will have developed an understanding of the backgournd of the ESL writer and ESL writing issues, be able to identify common as well as some of the unique challenges ESL students may have with writing and communicating, and will have develope, practiced, and demonstarted a repertoire of strategies and tools for addressing ESL student writing needs.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This three-credit course is required of all ESL students with below-standard TOEFL scores and open to all ESL students. This course facilitates a transition for ESL students into mainstream academic learning environment by focusing on reading and writing strategies at an intermediate level. Students will learn various reading strategies through intensive reading, extensive reading, and timed reading practices. Students will practice effective writing skills and diverse rhetorical strategies. Students will learn research strategies and practice documentation.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to literature and to basic methods of literary analysis and interpretation. Includes reading of short fiction, novels, poetry, and drama. Recommended as a General Education course.
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1.00 Credits
The Reading Roundtable will offer students the opportunity to read significant works of literature, and to learn techniques of participating in-and leading-discussions. Titles will vary from semester to semester.
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1.00 Credits
The Writing Roundtable meets weekly as a reader response workshop. Students share and respond to ongoing creative writing projects, concluding with a formal presentation or publication by participants. Each semester the roundtable focuses on a different emphasis such as poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, folklore, haiku, fiction or writing for children.
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1.00 Credits
This roundtable offers students the opportunity to become involved in professional organizations in English language arts education. The course may focus on a professional conference (which students will attend) or on a professional organization (which students will join). Students will become familiar with the goals and activities of these organizations.
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1.00 Credits
The course aims to provide students with theoretical and experiential grounding in peer tutoring of writing, allowing them to move from the traditional role of instructed subjects to more dynamic role as peer tutors and collaborators. Throughout the course our concerns will be practical as well as pedgogical. We begin by exmining the philosophy of the Writing Center and how that fits into the theoretical/pedgogical approaches to peer tutoring, and move into practice, focusing on interpersonal dynamics, audience adaptation, and collaborative learning. Students will engage in active sharing and development of tutoring styles, skills, and stratigies, investigate writing in the disciplines, and engage in self-reflection concerning the practice of peer tutoring. This course will be combination of discussion, lecture, reflection, group work, and totor presentations which will allow us the opportunities to share, analyze and critique as well as connect theory and pedagogy to real world tutoring experiences.
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3.00 Credits
A course in non-fictional prose, emphasizing clarity of style, audience and development of ideas. Content will vary semester to semester. Representative topics include persuasion and argument, the variety of non-fiction, writing in academic disciplines, research and extended essays. Pre-requisite: sophomore standing or consent of Department Chair.
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