課程資訊
課程名稱
英文作文三上
ENGLISH COMPOSITION (III) (1) 
開課學期
96-1 
授課對象
外國語文學系  
授課教師
張漢良 
課號
FL3009 
課程識別碼
102E49131 
班次
01 
學分
全/半年
全年 
必/選修
必修 
上課時間
星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
上課地點
舊圖會議室 
備註
與翻譯及習作擇一必修。本課程以英語授課。先修科目:英文作文二下(適用本系學士班學生)。
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限:12人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/961composition3 
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課程目標
 
課程要求
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
每週二 15:00~17:00
每週四 15:00~17:00 
指定閱讀
 
參考書目
Nicholas Walliman. Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide for
Success. London: SAGE, 2004. 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Regular and punctual participation 
10% 
 
2. 
Class presentations and discussion 
20% 
 
3. 
Assessment of short written assignments 
20% 
 
4. 
Assessment of the dissertation 
50% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/20  (1) Introduction to the course and the guide book.
(2) Students pick up an assigned research topic (for now a cluster of keywords from which a topic for dissertation can be developed).
Sample clusters of keywords: (a) gene, meme, genetics, memetics; (b) text, textuality, intertextuality, textual criticism, texture/structure; (c) culture, culture/nature, nature/nurture, cultural studies, culturalogy; (d) ecology, ecosystem, ecocriticism, ecophilosophy, ecology as discourse; e) niche, habitus, colony, colonization as a biological phenomenon, colonization as a cultural phenomenon, colonialism as discourse.
(3) Consult Raymond Williams, _Keywords_ and Tony Bennett et ali, _New Keywords_. Reading Assignment 1: Sample entries from Williams and Bennett et ali will be assigned for discussion in Week 2.
(4) Write a three-page essay on the entries assigned for the first week,i.e., 'culture' and 'civilization'.
 
第2週
9/27  Students' reports on sample "keywords" from Raymond Williams and Bennett et ali, and submit their preliminary lists of keywords from those suggested in the first week. Alternative clusters may be proposed but are subject to the instructor's approval. References: Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. New York: Oxford UP, 1976. Rev. ed. 1983 (on order at NTU Library. Consult online ed.).
Bennett, Tony, and Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society.Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. A theoretical reference is: Eco, Umberto. “Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia.” In his: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. London: Macmillan, 1984. 46-86.
 
第3週
10/04  (1) Read Chang's and Kim's essays on disaster and write a three-page essay comparing them and submit it for oral presentation and discussion on 4th October 2007.
(2) Instructor's lecture on "The birth of a journal article and professional ethics" 
第4週
10/11  (1) Walliman, chapters 1-3, pp. 3-35.
(2) Reading Assignment 3: J. K. Michelle, "What's in a Name?: Issues of Terminology and Language in Hazards Research." Environmental Hazards 2 (2001) 87-88.
(3) In-class writing exercise. 
第5週
10/18  (1) Read the emailed essay on "Umwelt" and compare it with a dictionary and encyclopedia entry on the word "environment".
(2) Write a three-page essay for class report on 18th October.
(3) Walliman, chapter 4, pp. 36-51. 
第6週
10/25  (1) bibliography of keywords due.
(2) A list of mock titles based on Walliman, Chapter 4, to be submitted 
第7週
11/01  No class. Library research. Reading assignments: (1) "Text" 1 and "Text" 2, Oswald Ducrot and Tzvetan Todorov, Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language. Trans. Catherine Porter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, 294-296, 356-361. (2) John Mowitt, Text: The Geneology of an Antidisciplinary Object. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992, 1-6. 
第8週
11/08  Dissertations outline due. Submission of the short essay on 1st November readings.
Discussion of reading assignments. 
第9週
11/15  No class. University Anniversary 
第10週
11/22  (1) Readings on ecology and Nature/Culture interface by Winfried Noeth and Kalevi Kull. (2) A three-page critique to be orally presented and submitted today. 
第11週
11/29  Consultation 
第12週
12/06  Consultation 
第13週
12/13  Consultation 
第14週
12/20  Consultation 
第15週
12/27  Consultation 
第16週
1/03  Consultation 
第17週
1/10  Dissertation due, preferably a 20-page, double-spaced draft on A-4 size paper.