ENG 101. 132A:
College Composition (LEC 43414)
M: 1-3.15pm:
E-228
F: 1-3.15pm:
MB-68
Justin Rogers-Cooper, Ph.D
jrogers@lagcc.cuny.edu
Office: M-109A
Office
Hours: M, F 9.15-10.15am, or by appointment
Twitter: @JrcLagcc
Course
Description
English 101 is a
required writing course at LaGuardia Community College. LaGuardia’s English
Department requires students to write 600-word, thesis-driven essays. These
essays will prepare students to be successful in future college courses.
Students will have opportunities to write papers in stages – they will take a
few weeks to write two or three versions of a draft before turning it in. They
will also have opportunities to write under time constraints, such as the
diagnostic and midterm essays.
Section
Description
This class will
focus on catastrophic climate change and its consequences.
This course will
also instruct students to accomplish short writing assignments by approaching
writing as a process. This process includes annotated reading, note-taking,
drafting, revision, and peer review.
This course will
instruct students to master or become fluent in academic writing as well as various
digital media, including: Blogger, Twitter, Instagram, and iMovie.
Course Goals
This course will
instruct students in the key modes of academic writing and professional
communication: summary, comparison and contrast, analysis, close-reading,
unified paragraphs, resource citation, introductions, conclusions,
bibliographies, arguments, supporting claims, key words and concepts, audience
awareness, and research techniques.
This course will
introduce students to the basic tropes of catastrophic climate change.
Course Blog
Writing Climate
Change (II)
http://2014climate.blogspot.com
Required Texts
Texts are available
at the LaGuardia bookstore. It is extremely important that you
purchase these texts and bring them when assigned.
Eggers,
Dave. Zeitoun. (available free
from professor)
Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say, I Say. Second Edition.
WW Norton.
(available free from professor)
Westhoven, William. Superstorm
Sandy: A Diary in the Dark. (available free from professor)
Nordhaus,
William D. The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a
Warming World (school store).
For students
on financial aid vouchers are available in the bursar’s office.
The bookstore
is located in the basement of the M building.
Course
Requirements
Students will write
three essays that respond to various course assignments, texts, and
discussions.
Students will
complete the readings and participate in class discussions and workshops.
Students will
post blogs, tweets, and pictures when assigned.
Students will
post comments to fellow students’ blogs, tweets, and pictures when assigned.
Students will
write during in-class assignments and peer reviews.
Students will
save their work on a USB drive/stick for any work they do in computer labs (or
email their work to themselves).
Classroom
Expectations
Students must
respect each other and the professor at all times.
Students will
classroom respect through active listening and participation.
Students must
silence all electronic devices and only text when asked.
Students texting personal
messages during class will be asked to leave class.
Students will
keep an open mind and monitor their emotions during class.
Attendance
Students that
miss more than four hours of class may fail the class.
Students that
miss more than four hours of class must confer with the professor.
If you are late
twice it will count as one absence.
If you do miss
class, it is your responsibility to keep up with the work; email another
student to find out what was missed.
Grades (ENG
101)
Essays (30%)
Students will
write three essays that demonstrate various skills in thesis-driven argumentation. These
essays will be typed, double-spaced, and written in a 12-point
font. The essays will be three to five pages.
Podcast Panel
(10%)
Students will
discuss their final paper on a classroom panel that will be recorded as a
podcast. The panel will ask students to summarize their final essay and to
offer advice to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio about what his office should do
to prepare for climate change.
Blogs (10%)
Students will create
and write blogs based on the readings and class discussion. Blogs must reach 200
words for students to receive credit. Students that add pictures (and cite
sources) will receive extra points.
Twitter (10%)
Students will create
a classroom Twitter profile and tweet 140-character reflections on the reading
or class discussion when assigned. Student must tweet at least once a week by
Sunday evening.
Instagram (5%)
Students will
create a class Instagram profile post pictures to that account accounts when
assigned. If students don’t have access to Instagram they will post pictures to
their blog and Tweet their blog posts.
Participation (10%)
You are expected
to attend every session, arrive on time, and participate fully in the
class. Participation means doing the readings on time, bringing the
assigned text/readings to class, answering questions when called on, volunteering
to answer questions or reading aloud from the text, and engaging fully in
groups/workshops with fellow students.
Reading Quizzes
(10%)
Reading quizzes
will be assigned at the beginning of some classes.
Midterm (10%)
The midterm exam
will be a 600 word essay. Students will choose to answer one of three questions
with an argument that they support.
Final Reflection (5%)
Late Work
All students can
receive a three-day extension on one essay during the semester; they must ask
for this extension 24 hours before the due date.
Revision
Policy
You may revise
any essay for a higher grade any number of times.
You may complete
late blogs for 50% of the points up to one week past the due date.
You may complete
late tweets for 25% of the points up to one week past the due date.
You may complete
Instagram photographs for 10% of the points up to one week past the due date.
You may ask the
professor for opportunities to open extra credit to the full class.
Students must
notify professor of all submitted late work by email.
Academic
Integrity
All work you
submit must be your own. You may not copy or paraphrase someone
else’s words or ideas without properly citing the source. All instances of
plagiarism or academic dishonesty will result in an “F” and possible action by
the college.
Students with
Disabilities
Students with
disabilities must register with the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD)
to receive accommodations. Please let me know if you need accommodations for
this class.
Reading
Assignments
We will
discuss each reading on the day it appears on the syllabus.
TENTATIVE
SCHEDULE (full schedule assigned @ 4/7)
M – 3/3
Course Introduction; Diagnostic
Assignment
Get course texts from bookstore
Create Blog on Blogger: see instructions on
class blog
F–
3/7 Casino:
“First Encounter in the Climate Casino” (3-11)
(reminder: read BEFORE class)
Essay One Assignment
After Class
Create
Twitter ID, post Twitter ID to blog: see instructions on class blog; see what
reading is due to be discussed next class, and read it
M –
3/10 Casino (12-35)
Preface, They Say I Say
After
Class: Create Instagram profile; post Instagram profile to blog, see class blog
for assignment
F – 3/14 Casino
(36-49)
They Say, I Say (1-10)
M – 3/17 Casino (50-77)
3-18 is
the last day to drop a course without a grade.
Blog ONE DUE TH 5 PM (students may post ANYTIME prior to
deadline); see class blog for assignment
F – 3/21 Casino
(79-90)
Instagram due
Sunday by 5pm (can be posted ANYTIME before deadline); see blog for assignment
M – 3/24
Essay One Peer Review: Bring THREE COPIES
They
Say, I Say (19-29)
F – 3.28 Casino (91-115)
BLOG TWO due BY Monday 3.31 at midnight
M – 3.31 “Blank is Beautiful” (2-19) - packet
BLOG TWO DUE BY MIDNIGHT
BLOG TWO DUE BY MIDNIGHT
F – 4.4 “Blanking the Beach” (64-86) - packet
Essay One Due In Class
Essay Assignment Two
Instagram assignment due by 4.3 at 6pm
M – 4.7 “Klein on Superstorm Sandy” (129-134)
“The Myth of Environmental Catastrophism” (134-147)
Instagram due Thursday by 5 pm
F – 4.11 “Eddie Yuen’s Reply” (148-151)
BLOG THREE due by TH 4.10
M – 4.14 SPRING BREAK
Instagram TWO assignment due T 4.22
W 4.23 WEDNESDAY IS A MONDAY
“Wen Stepheson, From Occupy to Climate Justice” (152-)
Casino (116-135)
F 4.25
M 4.28 MIDTERM ESSAY
F 5.2 Essay Two Peer Review
Zeitoun (1-19); Zeitoun (35-54; (68-81);
Zeitoun (1-19); Zeitoun (35-54; (68-81);
M 5.5 Zeitoun (81-146)
Essay Two Due
Essay Assignment Three
Essay Two Due
Essay Assignment Three
Instagram Three Due by S 5.4
F 5.9 Zeitoun (146-222)
BLOG FOUR due by S 5.3
BLOG FOUR due by S 5.3
M 5.12 (189-222)
F 5.16 (223-292)
Instagram Four due by TH 5.15
M 5.19 (292-325)
M 5.19 (292-325)
F 5.23 BLOG FIVE due by TH 5.22
Essay Three Peer Review
M 5.26 college closed
BLOG SIX due by S 5.25
M 6.2 Reading, Reading
Essay Three Due
Essay Three Due
Instagram Five due by S 6.1
What is Instagram assignment two?
ReplyDeleteGood question. I will post it this weekend for next week.
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