課程資訊
課程名稱
英文(附一小時英聽)一
FRESHMAN ENGLISH(WITH 1-HOUR AURAL TRAINING)(Ⅰ) 
開課學期
96-1 
授課對象
電機資訊學院  
授課教師
項亞倫 
課號
FL1007 
課程識別碼
102E83310 
班次
26 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
必修 
上課時間
星期四7,8,9(14:20~17:20) 
上課地點
視聽館101 
備註
需繳聽講實習費本課程以英語授課。
限工學院學生(含輔系、雙修生) 或 限電資學院學生(含輔系、雙修生) 或 限法律學院學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限:50人 
 
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課程概述

Sean Allan
Fall 2007
Office: 121 DFLL Building
Office Phone: 3366-3960
Office Hours: Monday 3-4pm, Tuesday 11-12pm, Wednesday 2-3pm, Thursday 2-3pm, and Friday 12-1pm.
E-mail: allans@ntu.edu.tw

English for Non-Majors
This course will improve students’ aural, oral, reading and writing skills. Students will improve their ability to think critically in English and argue in English in a rhetorically effective way. Students will cultivate the skills of summary, analysis, observation, and research presentation in the expository essay format necessary for college-level work and beyond. The class will look at and interpret many kinds of writing, from journalism to cultural criticism to scientific reportage. When appropriate, course material will take a media ecology approach (i.e. it will look at the way in which media and culture coexist). The course will expand students’ vocabulary and practical knowledge of grammar and style.

The course will be entirely in English.

 

課程目標
Fall Semester Course Objectives
1. Reading texts at a college level; writing about texts at a college level.
2. Close reading of a document’s style, so that one can not just summarize an argument, but recognize how an argument is written to persuade an audience.
3. Writing expository essays with a clear focus.
4. Learning to use others’ ideas to create one’s own ideas.
5. Learning to use in-text citation (through various citation methods, including MLA, APA, etc.)
6. Learning to recognize and use rhetorical and grammatical conventions in written and spoken English.

 
課程要求
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
 
參考書目
Course Materials
Aural training
Sampson, Nicholas. Way Ahead: A Listening and Speaking Course. Hong Kong:
Macmillan Publishers, 2001 reprint. This is a workbook and 5 CDs. Remember to buy the CDs.
--Available at Bookman. The book should be available to you by the middle of the first week of school.

Reading and writing
Conlin, Mary Lou. Patterns Plus: A Short Prose Reader with Argumentation.
Eighth Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
The syllabus is subject to change with notice.
 
評量方式
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No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Regular attendance and participation 
10% 
 
2. 
Written assignments (short essays and in-class essays) 
50% 
 
3. 
Oral reports and projects and aural projects 
20% 
 
4. 
Tests, quizzes and Exams 
20% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/20  Sean Allan
Fall 2007
English for Non-Majors


Paper 1: Film Summary and Analysis
Page requirement: 2-3 pages.
Secondary source requirement: Use at least one review of the film in your paper.

This paper will test your summary skills. You will need to describe, in clear and correct English, the key elements of a film: plot, character, style, etc. This will improve your ability to write economically (because you have to describe an entire film in just a few pages).
This paper will also test your ability to think intelligently about film. In addition to summary, the paper requires analysis. The analysis has to be more than your opinion as to whether the film is good or bad. You must explain the film’s strengths and weaknesses, and you must prove your ideas by using examples of dialogue and action from the film and using ideas that other film reviewers have written about the film. Your analysis can take many forms. You are free just to discuss in great detail why a film is good or bad technically and aesthetically; you could also use a more sophisticated approach—for example, you could talk about how a popular film is dangerous to its audience because it does not show the world as it truly is or people as they truly are.
The film can be in any language, but you are required to discuss the film in English and to translate any dialogue or movie review that you use into English.
A sample paper structure follows:
Introduction: The paper provides some background information about the film (the year that it was made, the director’s name, the lead actors, etc.). The introduction ends with a thesis statement, which tells the reader what the paper will argue about the film (e.g. “The film is entertaining because the action scenes are very well made.”)
Body 1: The paper describes the main characters and the plot of the film. The paper describes the film’s style, discussing one scene in the film or discussion some of the dialogue from the film.
Body 2: The paper provides evidence supporting its thesis statement. Here the writer will introduce more scene descriptions and dialogue selections from the film. The writer will also bring in a review of the film written by someone else as a way to make the writer’s own ideas more clear.
Conclusion: The paper looks at a larger issue related to the movie. For example, if the paper was written about an action film, the conclusion might discuss why it is important to discuss action films and why it is important for a movie audience to enjoy a good action film.

A note: When you discuss the plot of a film, write about the action in a film in the simple present tense, not the past tense. You shouldn’t write, “He then went to the store”; you should write, “He then goes to the store.”