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This document outlines the course schedule and content for an English 101 course over 16 weeks. [It covers topics like semiotics, analyzing ads and movies, peer commentary, gender codes, and writing four essays throughout the semester. Key assignments include rough and final drafts of Essays 1-3 due on specified dates, with the final Essay 4 due at the end of the course].
This document outlines the course schedule and content for an English 101 course over 16 weeks. [It covers topics like semiotics, analyzing ads and movies, peer commentary, gender codes, and writing four essays throughout the semester. Key assignments include rough and final drafts of Essays 1-3 due on specified dates, with the final Essay 4 due at the end of the course].
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This document outlines the course schedule and content for an English 101 course over 16 weeks. [It covers topics like semiotics, analyzing ads and movies, peer commentary, gender codes, and writing four essays throughout the semester. Key assignments include rough and final drafts of Essays 1-3 due on specified dates, with the final Essay 4 due at the end of the course].
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• What is a “C”? What is an “A”? Student samples • Structure and purpose of this course • Using Hacker to help your writing • Introduction to semiotics • Signs pp 1-21; 33-43; 48-67 • Writing semiotic analysis • Chapter One — “Consuming Passions: The Culture of American Consumption” • Signs pp 75-85 • Readings to be announced • Chapter Two – “Brought to You B(u)y: The Signs of Advertising” o Signs pp 171 - 181 o Readings from the text and exercises in analyzing ads • Movie – Advertising and the End of the World • Movie – Affluenza • Essay # 1 rough draft – three opening paragraphs and outline – due Th Sep 9 • Essay # 1 final draft due at the beginning of class, Th Sep 23 • NOTE: – Last day to receive a full tuition refund is Tue Aug. 31
Weeks Seven through Nine
• Helping others and improving yourself — peer commentary: demonstration and practice • Chapter Five – “You-Topian Dreams: MySpace, YourSpace, and the semiotics of Web 2.0” • Signs pp 423-31 o Readings to be announced Chapter Six – “American Paradox: Culture and Contradiction in the U.S.A.” • Signs pp 477 – 86 • Readings from the text • Essay #2 complete rough draft due at the beginning of class, Th Oct. 14 • Essay #2 final draft due at the beginning of class, Th Oct. 21 • Hacker: defining sentences, phrases, and clauses; identifying sentence problems
Weeks Ten through Thirteen
• Chapter Three – “Video Dreams: “Television, Music, and Cultural Forms” o Signs pp 249 - 64 Eng. 101 8 o Readings from the text • Chapter Four – “The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film” o Signs pp 331 – 41 o Readings from the text o More Hacker – apostrophes o Movie – Merchants of Cool o Essay #3 rough draft – three opening paragraphs – due Th Nov. 4 o Essay #3 final draft due at the beginning of class, Th Nov. 18
Weeks Fourteen through Sixteen
• NOTE: Thanksgiving Break: No classes Nov. 24 – 28 • Movie - Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women • Chapter Seven – “We’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Gender Codes in American Culture” o Signs pp 559 – 66 o Readings from the text
• NOTE: The last day to drop with a “W” is Saturday, Nov. 13 by
noon • Essay #4 final draft due at the beginning of class, Th Dec. 9. No late papers will be accepted.