This course is aimed at helping students to become successful users of English. Apart from listening and writing practice, we will have close reading of literature. Denotations and connotations as well as issues such as gender, race, and class raised by the texts will be discussed in class for an in-depth understanding of both the language and the content. After each reading, questions will be given in class for group discussion and oral presentation. For this semester, we will study short stories by Katherine Ann Porter and William Faulkner, essays by Kori Quintana and Dahlia Lithwick, plays by August Strindberg and Sophocles, and, if we have time, poems by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. Students are also required to perform in English drama presentation at the end of the semester.