English Majors’ Freshman “English”
Tamkang University, Second Semester 2005-2006
Tentative Class Schedule
1. 2/15
(W) Introduction
2. 2/17
(F) John Ciardi, “Is Everybody Happy?”
3. 2/24
(F) Sandra Cisernos, “Eleven”
4. 3/1
(W) Susan Sontag, “Woman’s Beauty”
5. 3/3
(F) Frank Stevenson, “Asian Groupism and Western Individualism”
6. 3/10
(F) Walter Lippmann, “Indispensable Opposition”
7. 3/15
(W) “Maturity: The Test of Personality”
8. 3/17
(F) TEST 1
9. 3/24
(F) Claude Levi-Straus, “Writing: The Tool of Exploitation?”
10. 3/29
(W) Movie
11. 3/31
(F) Movie Questions
12. 4/7
(F) J.H. Plumb, “The Dying Family”
13. 4/14
(F) Preparation for Louis Sachar, Holes// Plot Structure
14. MIDTERM EXAM
15. 4/26
(W) Ernst Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
16. 4/28
(F) Kate Millett, “A Political Definition of Sexual Revolution”
17. 5/5
(F) Ursule Molinaro, “Abstract Wife”
18. 5/10
(W) Cathleen Lindsay, “Fatherhood”
19. 5/12
(F) Sir Richard Livingstone, “What Is a Liberal Education?”
20. 5/19
(F) TEST 2
21. 5/24
(W) Movie
22. 5/26
(F) Movie Questions
23. 6/2
(F) Louis Sachar, Holes
24. 6/7
(W) Louis Sachar, Holes
25. 6/9
(F) Louis Sachar, Holes
26. FINAL EXAM
Classrooms and Class times:
Wednesday L301
Period 3 (10:10-11:00)
Period 4 (11:10-12:00)
Friday
E516
Period 1 (8:10-9:00)
Period 2 (9:10-10:00)
Instructor:
Darrel Doty
Office—FL724
Telephone—2621-5656 ex. 3210
Course Grade:
The course will be calculated based upon the following formula: Attendance
20%,Group work 30%, Tests 50% (Test 1 12.5%, Midterm 12.5%, Test 2 12.5%, Final
12.5%).
Course Text:
Neil J. Anderson. Active Skills for Reading: Book 4. Singapore: Thomson-Heinle,
2003.
Various Handouts
Note: Neither Tamkang University nor I guarantee that you will improve your
English; we only guarantee you the opportunity to do so. YOU ARE
RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN IMPROVEMENT.