EAP 0400C Syllabus Broward Community College EAP 0400C-Communication Skills 3 Credits/3 Contact Hours per week + Lab 2006-2007, Term I/16-weeks (August-December) Professor: Maria E. Bernal-Dobek Telephone: (954) 201-2481 Fax: (954) 201-2076 Emergency Numbers: (954) 201-4900 E-mail: mbernald@broward.edu Website: www.webhome.broward.edu/bccprofs/mbernald Office: Building 47, Room 104C Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday: 9:00-9:30 & 1:45-2:15 Tuesday and Thursday: 12:15-4:30 Last Day to Drop with Refund: August 25, 2006 Last Day to Withdraw: October 26, 2006 Required Textbooks for Class: (All texts are available in the BCC Bookstore.) § Focus on Pronunciation 3 Student Book with 2 CDs § Beyond True Stories § Longman Dictionary of American English with Audio CD § Longman Dictionary of American English Workbook Required Textbooks for Lab: § Contemporary Topics 2 Supplemental Material: § Spiral Notebook for note-taking § Folder/Binder for handouts § 2 Formatted Computer Disks or a Jump Drive Course Description Designed to guide students toward applying appropriate pronunciation, phrasing, and intonation of oral American English in communication situations such as academic and social settings. Involves interview presentation and emphasis on developing listening skills. The requirement to pass EAP 0400C is a C or higher. With a D or F, a student must repeat EAP 0400C. Unit Titles: 1. Review of EAP 0300C 2. Oral Presentations 3. Academic English 4. Discussion and Debate Class Schedule The following schedule is flexible and may be modified according to the needs of the class. NOTE: FOP3 stands for Focus on Pronunciation 3 and BTS stands for Beyond True Stories. WEEK 1 (8/21-8/25) Overview of course content and syllabus Student Interviews/Presentations Individual Assessments Language Lab (LLC) Orientation Review of Vowels Sounds FOP3: Unit 1 BTS: Unit 1 WEEK 2 (8/28-9/1) Theme: Longevity Focus on Vowel Pronunciation Language Lab- 1 hour due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 2-4 BTS: Unit 1 WEEK 3 (9/4-9/8) BCC CLOSED ON MONDAY! Labor Day Theme: Finding Work That Is Right For You Focus on Vowel Pronunciation Language Lab- 2 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 5-7 BTS: Unit 2 WEEK 4 (9/11-9/15) Focus on Vowel Pronunciation Theme: Finding Work That Is Right For You Focus on Consonants Listening Comprehension Quiz 1 Language Lab- 3 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 8-10 BTS: Unit 2 WEEK 5 (9/18-9/22) Theme: Geeks Focus on Consonants Language Lab- 4 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 11-13 BTS: Unit 3 WEEK 6 (9/25-9/29) Theme: Geeks Focus on Consonants Listening Comprehension Quiz 2 Language Lab- 5 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 14-17 BTS: Unit 3 WEEK 7 (10/2-10/6) BCC CLOSED ON MONDAY! FALL HOLIDAY Theme: Finding the Rights Person to Marry Focus on Consonants Language Lab- 6 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 19-22 BTS: Unit 4 WEEK 8 (10/9-10/13) Theme: Finding the Rights Person to Marry Focus on Consonants Listening Comprehension Quiz 3 Language Lab- 7 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 23-26 BTS: Unit 4 WEEK 9 (10/16-10/20) Theme: Intuition Focus on Word Stress Language Lab- 8 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 27-29 BTS: Unit 5 WEEK 10 (10/23-10/27) Theme: Intuition Focus on Word Stress Listening Comprehension Quiz 4 Language Lab- 9 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 30-31 BTS: Unit 5 WEEK 11 (10/30-11/3) Theme: Neighborhood Feuds Focus on Rhythm Language Lab- 10 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 32-36 BTS: Unit 6 WEEK 12 (11/6-11/10) BCC CLOSED ON FRIDAY! VETERAN’S Day Theme: Neighborhood Feuds Listening Comprehension Quiz 5 Language Lab- 11 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 37-40 BTS: Unit 6 WEEK 13 (11/13-11/17) Theme: The Stock Market Language Lab- 12 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 41-43 BTS: Unit 7 WEEK 14 (11/20-11/24) BCC CLOSED ON THURSDAY & FRIDAY! THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Theme: The Stock Market BTS: Unit 7 WEEK 15 (11/27-12/1) Theme: Helping One Another Focus on Intonation Listening Comprehension Quiz 6 Language Lab- 13 hours due by the end of the week FOP3: Units 44-46 BTS: Unit 8 WEEK 16 (12/4-12/8) Theme: Helping One Another FOP3: Units 47-49 BTS: Unit 8 WEEK 17 (12/11-12/15) Final Interviews: Monday and Wednesday for MW Tuesday and Thursday for TR Course Grading Your grade for the course will be based on the following: Presentations 25% Listening Comprehension Quizzes 25% Service Learning Project 15% Final Interview 20% HW/CW 10% Participation 5% Grading Scale: A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 59 and below ** A minimum grade of “C” is required in order to pass EAP 0400C. Language Lab Requirement All students are required to complete a minimum of 13 hours in the Language Lab. Since this is a 16-week course, you will need to completely approximately 1 hour per week. Your lab sheet will be checked weekly to ensure that you are keeping up with your lab assignments. If you do not complete a minimum of 13 hours in the lab, your final grade will be lowered one letter grade. Tardy and Attendance Policy Attendance is mandatory! Since a grade is earned in each class session, you will lower your grade if you miss class, come in late, or leave early. If you know that you are going to be late or absent, please be responsible and call me or send me an e-mail message. Always make sure to sign the attendance sheet. You will be considered absent if your name is not on the sheet. Make-Up Assignments If you are absent, you are responsible for any missed assignments on the day you return to class. You will also be expected to do any presentations on the day you return. Therefore, you may want to write down the names and phone numbers of at least two students in the class so that you can call them to find out what you need to do. Also, if you miss a presentation, you will only be allowed to make it up if you have an excused absence such as a government obligation, an extreme illness, death in the immediate family, or the observance of a holy day. You must notify me before you miss the class in order to receive an excused absence, and you must bring official documentation such as a doctor’s note on the day you return to class. A make up for the final group presentation will only be given in an extreme emergency with official documentation. Classmates to call in case you are absent: Name: ____________________________ Phone # ______________________ Name: ____________________________ Phone # ______________________ Late Assignments NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED! Make sure that you get me all assignments on the day that they are due, even if you have to fax them or e-mail them to me. Homework Homework assignments will be assigned as needed. All homework assignments are due at the beginning of class. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your assignment will not be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS! Classwork In order to receive a grade for work/presentations done in class, you must be present and actively participate for the entire class session. If you leave early or come in late, you will not receive a grade for that day’s assignments. Participation You earn a participation grade for each class session. Therefore, you will lower your participation grade if you are absent, show up late, leave early, speak a language other than English in class, and/or do not actively participate in class. Every student begins with 5 automatic participation points, but you can lose participation points in the following manner. *You are allowed to be absent once without penalty. After that, you will lose two points for every absence. *You are allowed to be a few minutes late or leave a few minutes early up to two times without penalty. After that, every time you are late or leave early, you will lose a participation point. *If you do not actively participate or if you speak a language other than English in class, you will be warned once. After that, you will lose a participation point for each infraction. Academic Honesty: Any student found to have committed the following misconduct, either on or off campus, is subject to the disciplinary sanctions outline in Student Code of Conduct Procedures: 1. Dishonesty, including but not limited to the following: a. Cheating, plagiarism, or other forms of academic dishonesty. The term “cheating,” includes but is not limited to: § copying homework assignments from other student § working together with another individual on a take-home test or homework when specifically prohibited from doing so by the instructor § looking at text, notes, or another person’s paper during an examination when not permitted to do so. § giving of work or information to another student to be copied and / or used as his or her own. This includes but is not limited to: o giving someone answers to exam questions either when the exam is being given or after having taken an exam o informing another student of specific questions that appear or have appeared on an exam in the same academic term o giving or selling a term paper, report, project, or other restricted written materials to another student. The term “plagiarism,” includes, but is not limited to: § an attempt of an individual to claim the work of another as the product of his or her own thoughts, regardless of whether that work has been published. § quoting improperly or paraphrasing text or other written materials without proper citation on an exam, term paper, homework, or other written material submitted to an instructor as one’s own work. § handing in a paper to an instructor that was purchased from a term paper service or downloaded from the Internet and presenting another person’s academic work as one’s own. 2. Students are expected to do their own work at all times. Students who cheat on an assignment or test will fail that assignment or test. If you plagiarize on an assignment, you will receive a zero on that assignment. In addition, you may fail the class and be suspended or expelled from the college (see Student Handbook). Therefore, always do your own work. Respect One of the most important elements in any classroom is respect. As your instructor, I will work very hard to be respectful of you at all times. Therefore, I expect you to do the same. Here are some practices that will help us to maintain a respectful learning environment. 1. Speak English at all times. Since you are all here to learn English and English is the common language among us all, please refrain from speaking your native language while in class. Speaking a language other than English in the classroom will affect your participation grade. 2. Turn off all cell phones and beepers. It is very hard to concentrate when there are cell phones ringing and conversations going on, so please do not use your cell phone in class. 3. Raise your hand to speak in class. Even though it may seem elementary, it is important for everyone to have a chance to speak and be heard. Therefore, we must all take turns speaking, and raising our hands allows us to do that. 4. Come to class on time. One of the most disruptive behaviors in a class is constant tardiness. Tardiness disrupts the instructor and the students, so please come to class on time regularly. 5. Come to class ready and eager to learn. ***YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE IF YOU BEHAVE IN ANY MANNER THAT DISRUPTS THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT OR DISRESPECTS ANYONE IN THE CLASS! FINAL NOTE: I look forward to working with you this semester. I believe that with hard work and perseverance each person in this class has the chance to be successful in EAP 0400C. It is also very important that you tell me when you need extra help or clarification, so please feel free to ask questions when a concept is unclear and come to my office hours for additional help when necessary. Remember, I am here to help you succeed! Therefore, let’s work together and have a great semester. NOTE: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus at any time and in any way in order to accommodate the needs of the class. EAP 0400 MW / TR August 2006 I, ______________________________, have received a copy of Prof. Bernal-Dobek’s syllabus for EAP 0400C and have read and understood its contents. Signature of Student: ____________________________________ Contact Information Home Phone: __________________________________________ Cell Phone: ______________________________________________________ E-mail: ______________________________________________________