Sophomore English
English for Information Technology
Fall semester, 2009
Instructor: 柯瓊琪
Email: angelateacher@kimo.com
Office: 修齊大樓 26507 室
Course Description and Goals
This course helps students develop English skills for studies in the information
technology field. It aims to increase students’ reading fluency while building on students’
accuracy in reading comprehension. Another aim would be to develop the speaking skills
students need to function and succeed in classroom settings and in future career. Authentic
reading texts related to information technology will be used during the class; topics such as
artificial intelligence, communication, computer architecture, and bioinformatics, will be
discussed. Class activities include pre-reading discussion and activities, vocabulary preview,
main reading and exercises, discussion, task-based activities, and the like.
Specific purposes and aims:

to increase students’ command of related vocabulary and terminology
to improve students’ reading and listening skills relevant to the field of information
technology
 to develop students’ oral skills for technical discussion (and written skills for producing
short technical texts)

Course Materials
Textbooks and handouts.
(Handouts will be posted on iTeach http://iteach.ncku.edu.tw/ or Blackboard
http://bb.ncku.edu.tw/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp before class.)
Grading Basis
Mid-term Exam
Final Exam
Presentation
Attendance, participation, attitude, progress made, in-class activities
Course Outline (TENTATIVE)
WEEK LESSON
NOTE
1
UNIT 1: ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
Unit 1 Lesson 1 (U1L1):
Robots-Moving, Powering, Feeling, and
Thinking
or U1L2
2
U1L2: Scientists Send Robots to Charm
school
or U1L1
3
U1L3: 3D Facial Recognition System
4
U1L4: Facial Recognition Systems
5
U4L1: An Introduction to Bioinformatics
6
U4L2: DNA Computers
7
U4L3: DNA Computer Puts Microbes to
Work as Number
8
UNIT 4:
BIOINFORMATICS
(quiz)
U4L4: DNA Computer Works in Human
Cells
9
MIDTERM EXAM
10
U2L1:
11
U2L2: Mobile apps find a home on
touchscreen devices
12
U2L3: Google and T-Mobile Launch G1
Smart Phone with Android Software
Computer
Networks:
New UNIT 2:
predictive approach seeks to stay ahead of COMMUNICATION
hackers
(quiz)
13
14
U3L1: Cache Memory +
UNIT 3: COMPUTER
30%
30%
20%
20%
How a Disk Cache Works
15
U3L2: The Key to Smaller, More
Powerful Gadgets
16
U3L3: CPU designers debate multi-core
future
17
U3L4: What is a neural network and how
does its operation differ from that of a
digital computer?
18
FINAL EXAM

ARCHITECTURE
Please note that the schedule and course content on the syllabus is TENTATIVE.
Changes will be announced in class.