Syllabus Statements (updated for SPRING 2009)
"W" and "FN" Dates
The last day to drop a full semester course with a "W" is March 20.
Students who stop attending class on or before April 6 will receive an
"FN."
ADA Notice
ADA notice: Students with disabilities who require accommodations
(academic
and/or auxiliary aids or services) for this course must contact the
Office
for Student Disability Services, Room A200, Downing University
Center.
The OFSDS telephone number is (270) 745-5004 V/TDD. Please do not
request accommodations directly from the instructor without a letter of
accommodation from the Office for Student Disability Services.
SACS Notice
As part of a
university-wide
accreditation study, a small sample of papers will be collected from
randomly-selected individuals in all ENG 200 and "Category E" classes
this
semester. The papers will be examined
anonymously as
part of a program assessment; results will have no bearing on student
assessment or course grades.
Goals/Objectives
(Cut-and-pasted from MS Word documents accessible at <http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/English/joehardins%20website/Faculty%20Links.html>.)
English 100
This course fulfills the A.1.
(Organization and
Communication of Ideas) general education requirement at WKU. The course will help you attain these general
education goals and objectives:
1. The capacity for critical and logical thinking
2. Proficiency in reading, writing, speaking
The goals of the course are to
introduce students to
college-level writing and critical reading, to give students
instruction and
practice in writing and reading college-level essays, and to make
students
aware of how various audiences and rhetorical situations call for
different
choices in language, structure, format, and tone. Students
receive instruction and practice
that allows them to clearly articulate their audience, purpose, and
rhetorical
situation for writing assignments.
Reading assignments stress how and why authors make rhetorical
choices
and are designed both to immerse students in written language and to
develop
critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.
English 200
English
200 fulfills the B.1 (Humanities/Literature) general
education requirement. It will help
students attain these general education objectives:
·
proficiency in reading, writing, and
speaking
·
an informed acquaintance with major
achievements
in the arts and humanities.
This
course examines representative works in the major
genres of literature (poetry, fiction, and drama), with attention to
different
time periods, cultures, and diversity. Through class discussions and
through
reading and writing assignments, students will question, think, and
write
critically about literature. The aim of
the course is to introduce students to the concepts and methodologies
essential
to the analysis and appreciation of a significant body of work.
English 300
This course fulfills the A.1.
(Organization and
Communication of Ideas) general education requirement at WKU. The course will help you attain these general
education goals and objectives:
1. The capacity for critical and
logical thinking
2. Proficiency in reading, writing, speaking
The goals of the course are to introduce students
to writing
and reading in the academic disciplines, to give students advanced
instruction
and practice in writing and reading essays within those various
disciplines,
and to make students aware of how disciplinary conventions and
rhetorical
situations call for different choices in language, structure, format,
tone,
citation, and documentation. Students
will conduct investigations into writing conventions in their fields
and
receive advanced instruction in planning, drafting, arranging,
revising, and
editing discipline-specific essays. Reading
assignments stress
how knowledge is made and reported in various disciplines.
Students learn how to evaluate primary and secondary
sources for accuracy, authority, bias, and relevance and how to
synthesize
different points of view within their essays.