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English 2375: Children and Adolescent Literature
Departmental Syllabus
PREREQUISITE: A student must earn passing grades in English 1301 and 1302 before enrolling in 2375.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course emphasizes training in reading and writing skills. Course requires close reading skills and essays based on provocative and critical readings.
GOALS OF THE COURSE: Children and Adolescent Literature requires the study and critical analysis of works of literature for children and adolescents.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this course,
Learning Outcome 1: Students will strengthen reading, writing, and critical thinking skills developed in English 1301 and 1302.
Performance Objective and Measurement: Students will meet the requirements of Learning Outcome 1 through development of original thesis/claim statements and sustained arguments about their claims in essays, exams and or journal responses to the material. Students will also meet the requirements of the learning outcome by completing written essays. Longer essays will be 500 words plus of sustained argument with illustrative examples from the course material. These essays will use standard edited English, following the conventions of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Learning Outcome 2: Students will illustrate that writing is a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources for literary essays.
Performance Objective and Measurement: Students will meet the requirements of Learning Outcome 2 through development of a thesis/claim through close reading of the text and brainstorming of ideas about the text. Essay length responses are generated after completion of an outline to organize their prioritized ideas, points and evidence. The editing process is emphasized as the stages of writing progress. The students may participate in guided peer editing sessions to evaluate the originality, effectiveness and sustainability of the student's argument about a children's literature text.
Learning Outcome 3: Students will understand and recognize a tradition of children and adolescent literature from early form as folktales of the 16 th century to the present in a variety of genres with a general knowledge of its representative authors and some detailed knowledge of their specific works
Performance Objective and Measurement: Students will meet the requirements of Learning Outcome 3 through written answers/essays/journals during the course of the semester. Students may have either take-home or in-class writing assignments. These will include short answer questions and/or essay length questions in either journal or formal paper format. These written assignments may include summary, analysis, interpretation, or comparison/contrast of literary and secondary sources.
Learning Outcome 4: Students will apply the basic principles of literary language and analysis
Performance Objective and Measurement: Students will meet the requirements of Learning Outcome 4 through written answers to questions on quizzes, exams and essays. At times students will have to orally present literary analysis of related literature (i.e. literature which shares similar themes) to the texts read in the anthology and other assigned texts. They may be asked to identify, compare, contrast and/or illustrate major course material concepts or elements. Essay length responses will require at least 200 words of thoughtful and well organized prose containing illustrative examples from the text(s) or other required media under consideration.
Learning Outcome 5: Students will understand that literary study may be directed by a variety of analytical approaches, including but not limited to historical, psychological, biographical, social and feminist
Performance Objective and Measurement: Students will meet the requirements of Learning Outcome 4 through written answers to questions on journal responses and essays. Students will be given the opportunity to choose a critical approach and apply it to a specific work of children's literature. Students will respond to factual, interpretative, analytical and argumentative questions which may demand both short and essay length answers. They will be asked to identify concepts or elements in a children's literary text. Each piece of prose, whether formal essay or a journal response, must be thoughtful and well-organized with illustrative examples from the text. Oral presentation of applied analytical approaches may be given as well.
ATTENDANCE
Regular and punctual class attendance is required. A student who is absent for any reason will be allowed to do make-up work at the discretion of the instructor. However, a student will be held responsible for all class work and materials. A student who has accumulated absences equivalent to two (2) weeks of instruction may be dropped after the census date. If a student is dropped from a class for excessive absences, the instructor will record a grade of “W” (Withdrew). Since tardiness is a form of absenteeism, the instructor may establish a policy regarding tardiness.
DROPS AND WITHDRAWALS
The Communications Department requires that students who wish to drop their courses meet with their respective instructors prior to completing the withdrawal process. Any student withdrawing from a course should be aware of Senate Bill (SB) 1231. Course instructor will provide specific information regarding this Senate Bill.
ACADEMIC HONESTY STATEMENT
“In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone
else's language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source” (Council of Writing Program Administrators, 2003) . Penalties may be applied at the discretion of individual instructors, including, but not limited to, failing the assignment, failing the course, suspension and/or expulsion.
ADA STATEMENT:
As per Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, if an accommodation is needed, contact Stacie Williams at 590.5496.
CONFERENCES WITH INSTRUCTOR:
Instructors will make themselves available to students for individual conferences by appointment or during their scheduled office hours.
Religious Holy Days
A “religious holy day” means a holy day observed by a religion whose places of worship are exempt from property taxation under Section 11.20 of the Tax Code. The student must notify the faculty member in writing within the first 12 days of the semester of the intent to be absent due to a religious holy day. Under Texas Education Code 51.911, a student who is absent from classes for the observance of a religious holy day shall be allowed to take an examination or complete an assignment scheduled for that day within a reasonable time as established by the faculty member.
SERVICES:
The Learning Resource Center is currently located on the first floor of the Northeast Campus building at 8300 Pat Booker Road, Live Oak, TX, 78233.
In October 2008, the Learning Resource Center will move to its permanent location in the Library building at 1201 Kitty Hawk Rd., Live Oak, TX, 78233.
Library website: http://www.accd.edu/nlc/library/default.htm
Academic Support Services provides walk-in tutoring and tutoring by appointment. Academic Support Services is currently located on the first floor of the Northeast Campus building at 8300 Pat Booker Road, Live Oak, TX, 78233.
In October 2008, Academic Support Services will move to its permanent location in the Library building at 1201 Kitty Hawk Rd., Live Oak, TX, 78233.
Academic Support Services website: http://www.accd.edu/nlc/dept/aa/asc/
THREE-PEAT TUITION COSTS
The ACCD colleges, with the approval of the Texas State Legislature, effective Fall 2005, will charge students the non-Texas resident hourly tuition rate for any course in which the students is enrolling for the third time.
Additional Information:
Each instructor will provide specific requirements for his/her course, which will include grading policies, weighting of grades, make-up polices, tardiness policy, course agenda, and any special requirements. |
