WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR ENG 102
2022-23 SPRING SEMESTER
Below is a plan, which you may adapt according to your materials and preferences.
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If you would like to do your CBT, you may omit the R/L/S materials of one module.
Alternatively, you may still cover all the modules but may omit one reading/listening material from modules 1 & 3.
WEEK & DATE
Week 1 (Online)
6-10 March
TEXTS / MATERIALS
Module 1: Empathy
Video: Empathic Civilization
FOCUS
Course introduction
Week 2 (Online)
13-17 March
Add-drop week
Video: Interview with Paul Bloom
Listening & speaking
Week 3 (Online)
20-24 March
Module 1: Empathy
Reading text: Don’t confuse solidarity with
empathy!
ASSESSMENT
If teachers prefer to start the essay process earlier in the
term, the essay input can be covered at the end of module
1, the stages of the process can be spread further apart,
and the essay prompts related to all three modules in the
booklet can be used.
Reading & speaking
Research skills
Week 4 (Online)
27-31 March
Week 5
3-7 April
Week 6
10-14 April
Seminar input or debate input
Instructors may give a quiz on the input/content covered
so far.
Speaking focus: Seminar or
Debate
Module 2: Online Lynching & Cancel
Culture
Video: When Online Shaming Goes Too
Far
Listening & speaking
Reading: Cancel Culture: A Struggle for
Justice or the Weaponization of Social
Media?
Reading & speaking; mindmapping a text
Essay writing input
Writing an essay
NOTES
Ts may start the semester with the revision of academic
features part (before the essay input). Also, the
speaking focus of the course could be explained,
students can reflect on their own experience and the
challenges they face, which can be followed by the
“improving speaking on your own” part in appendix 1.
Unassessed seminar /debate
Graded seminar / debate / oral
presentation
Quiz (optional)
WEEK & DATE
Week 7
17-21 April
TEXTS / MATERIALS
Essay writing input (cont.)
21 April: Religious Holiday
(Thursday: Holiday’s Eve)
Module 3: Artificial
Intelligence and the Curious
Case of Robots
AI quiz & Infographic
Week 8
24-28 April
Week 9
1-5 May
1 May: Labor and Solidarity
Day
Week 10
8-12 May
Week 11
15-19 May
19 May: National Holiday
Week 12
22-26 May
Week 13
29 May – 2 June
FOCUS
ASSESSMENT
Instructors may give a quiz on the input/content covered
so far.
Reading (scanning &
skimming) & speaking
Graded seminar / debate / oral
presentation
Quiz (optional)
Reading: Challenges of the New
World with Artificial Intelligence
Listening & speaking
Video: Why We Have an
Emotional Connection to Robots
Reading & speaking
Reading: Why Care About
Robots? Empathy and Moral
Standing
Reading: Artificial
Consciousness: Our Greatest
Ethical Challenge
Reading & speaking
Practice Essay writing:
Outlining, first draft, final
draft
Graded seminar / debate / oral
presentation
Quiz (optional)
(Practice) Essay writing
Mid-Term: Essay Writing
Tentative Date: June 4, 2023, Sunday
Week 14
5-9 June
Final Exam Weeks
12-23 June
NOTES
END-OF-COURSE INTERVIEWS
Check documented outlines (optional), first drafts and
final drafts (both are compulsory)
Instructors may give a quiz on the input/content covered
so far.