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This class will attempt to develop your academic reading skills. We will especially work on improving your vocabulary knowledge and your ability to guess the meaning of words from the context.

Course Overview

The general purpose of this course...

Class Notes

Class notes will be added on a weekly basis for review.

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Grading Criteria

30% attendance and participation
10% Life Map Presentation
30% Mid-term performance evaluation
30% Final performance evaluation

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Expectations

Attendance/Participation
Attendance is mandatory: Participants who arrive to class 10 minutes or more after class begins will be considered late. Participants who are late 3 times will receive 1 absence. Any participant who misses 1/4 of all class meetings will receive an F. Mastery of the ideas and concepts of this course requires engagement and discussion. If you are not in class, you miss that opportunity to exchange ideas. Moreover, participation is also essential. Just coming to class is not enough. I expect all participants to be active in class discussion and lectures as well as to complete all oral and written assignments.

Life Map Presentation
This presentation will be something you develop out of the Life Map Icebreaking activity that we will do on the first day of class.

Mid-term Performance Evaluation

This performance evaluation will assess the language and situations that we have covered in the first half of class

Final Performance Evaluation
This performance evaluation will assess the language and situations that we have covered in the whole class.

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Additional Resources

To be added later.

Tentative Semester Schedule

Week/Date	Homework/Preparation	In class activities/Assignments
Week 1		Introduction of students, lecturer and course
Week 2		Life Map Presentations
Week 3		Do We Understand Each Other?
Week 4		Love at First Sight
Week 5		Biology of Love
Week 6		Beauty: Looks Don't Matter?
Week 7		Strictest Parents
Week 8		Review for Mid-term
Week 9		Mid-term Performance Assessment
Week 10		Popular Cultural: Pop Song "Torn"
Week 11		Issues in Popular Cultural: Suicide
Week 12		Issues in Popular Cultural: Happiness
Week 13		Issues in Popular Cultural: Adolescents and Responsibility
Week 14		Holiday
Week 15		Final Performance Assessment: Interviews Day 1
Week 16		Final Performance Assessment: Interviews Day 2

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