001. British
Literature I
3 credits
Ms. Cecilia
Liu
For Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors
This course is a survey of the major works of English
literature from the Anglo-Saxon period (i.e. Beowulf) through the 18th
century. Genres covered are epic and romance, allegory, satire, ballad, lyrics, drama and
prose. Themes include war, journeys, Christ, love, marriage, death, nature and women
issues. Through this survey students cultivate a sense of development, change and
continuity in the literature of England over eight centuries. Authors sampled include
Chaucer,Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Johnson, Marvell, Milton, Dryden, Swift, and
Pope. Text: The Norton Anthology of
English Literature Vol. 1 (6th ed.)
Requirements: Emphasis will be on close reading and
analysis of the assigned texts. Students will work on group projects and contribute to
class and group discussions. In the group projects students are responsible for oral
presentation on assigned topics which may be the background to our readings or portions of
the readings. There will be occasional quizzes, a midterm and a final exam.
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002.中國詩詞曲（一）
(Chinese Poetry I)
2 credits
Ms. Chao
For Sophomores,
Juniors, Seniors
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003.Chinese
Modern Fiction
2 credits
Mr. Chuang
For Juniors
and Seniors
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004.
Introduction to Western Arts
2 credits
Mr. Jason Wang
For Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors
The objective of this
course is to equip students with the ability to understand Western art as a rich aspect of
Western culture. As you may have known, this course has been offered on a two-semester
basis for a few years now. However, due to the change of curriculum in the English
department, this course will be offered on a one-semester basis from this coming semester
on. Also, as the university regulation dictates, this elective course will not be offered
unless there are over 10 students taking it. To accommodate this change, the instructor
has to cut the original teaching program short in order to fit it into one semester. This
also means that only a brief introduction is possible.
It is this instructor' s intention
to use the video program Art of the Western World (CAUTION: NO CHINESE SUBTITLE
AVAILABLE!) as the basic material of this course. The length of this video program is
roughly 9 hours. The main topics include: 1) The Classical Ideal through the Middle Ages;
2) The Early Renaissance through the Baroque; 3) The Age of Reason through
Post-Impressionism; 4) Modernism through Post-Modernism. Besides the video program, other
audio-visual materials, especially slides and music CDs, will be used extensively in class
to give the students a better idea of how Western art evolves from the Ancient Greek times
to our late twentieth century. There will be midterm and final exams. Recommended
textbook: Ernst H. Gombrich, The Story of Art, 16th edition (London: Phaidon Press,
1995)
***PS: As for the Spring semester, the instructor is thinking
of offering another entry-level introductory course, which may touch on Western Art after
Realism and up to the twentieth century. However, this is still tentative. We will see how
reality turns out.
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005. Performing Arts:
Theatre as Language and Literature in Action
2 credits
Mr. Jason Wang
For Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors
Objective: (1) to present the language aspects of theatre:
acting, communication and collaboration among artists, relationship between audience and
performer, and role of the critic; (2) to appreciate the literature aspect of theatre:
dramatic theory, play analysis, and playwright as writer and director.
Text: The Theatre Experience, Edwin Wilson
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006.
Computer-Aided Research and Bibliography
2 credits
Dr. Shiou-Wen
Rebecca Yeh
Prerequisite: Word
Processing
For Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors
The purpose of this course is to help participants (1)
become familiar with a variety of research methods and (2) help them to write up the
results of their research in an appropriate format. The course will start with a library
tour to review the uses of traditional libraries and information sources. The uses of new
computer technology will also be stressed. Throughout the course of the semester, students
will have many opportunities to practice their research writing skills. Further details
for the research projects will be provided at the time of their assignments.
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007. Professional
Ethics
2 credits (required)
Fr. Daniel Bauer
For Juniors and Seniors
Ethics as an
academic study combines themes and problems that relate to both philosophy and social
studies. The main topic of ethics is human behavior, specifically the question of how to
tell the difference between right and wrong in thinking and actions. This course aims to
help students to analyze their own process of judgement about ¡§ right and wrong¡¨
in life, and to develop a framework of values useful in personal and professional life
after graduation. Issues we will study include: gender stereotyping, the influence of
opinions and values in the counseling of others (including friends and colleagues),
confidentiality and privacy. We will also consider an overview of medical ethics and
business ethics. Students are to participate in class discussions, to offer journal
entries, and to compose a five-case ethics folder for the end of the course. There are no
exams.
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008.
Computer Assisted Instruction
2 credits
Dr. Shiou-Wen
Rebecca Yeh
Prerequisite:
Word Processing
For Juniors and Seniors
This course is designed
for those interested in CAI courseware design theory, design and development techniques,
and programming. The course focuses upon applications of various learning theories to CAI,
structured CAI design and development techniques, and CAI programming techniques using
TOOLBOOK II, INSTRUCTOR on Windows platform. During the lecture portion of this course, a
broader perspective involving computers and their instructional applications, the process
of instruction, methods of CAI (such as Tutorial, Drills and Practices, Simulations,
Instructional Games, Problem Solving Activities), and the developing process of CAI will
be covered. During the lab portion, hands-on experiences with TOOLBOOK II will be
emphasized.
Grading:
*60%--major CAI design and development project
*20%--minor projects including small ToolBook II assignments
*20%--quizzes and class participation
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009. Sociolinguistics
2 credits
Mr. Thomas
Nash
Prerequisite:
Introduction to English Linguistics
For Juniors and Seniors
This course will examine the relationship between language
and society, looking at such topics as language and social differences, language and
context, language and sex, language and nation, and rules of speaking.
The textbook will serve to give general background and
examples involving various languages and societies, and we will attempt to relate
everything to the students¡¦ experience, especially through projects and
class discussion. Examples of possible project topics include
language on TV (past student project: The language of good guys and bad guys in cartoons),
body language, insults (past project: Insults by university students in Mandarin and
Taiwanese), sex differences and sexism in language, language in advertising (past
projects: The language of men and women in TV commercials; The language of food
advertisements), language in popular music (past project: Language and social influences
in contemporary Taiwanese rock songs), language change and how people feel about it,
language varieties in literature, language taboos, language in politics, bilingual
education, children's English as a social and linguistic question, language and identity
(past project: Linguistic markers of identity among junior high students)
Requirements will include
*class participation¡X reading, discussion, questions
*project¡X written paper and (if class size permits) oral report
*article review¡X summary and critique of a journal article
*one take-home exam
Textbook: Holmes, Janet. Introduction to
Sociolinguistics. London: Longman, 1992.
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010.Teaching
of Writing
2 credits
Dr. Yuan, Yun-Pi
For Juniors and Seniors
This one-semester course is designed for students who wish
to learn more about writing and how to teach writing. In this class, we will have a chance
to reflect on our writing experience: how we learned to write and our writing strategies.
By learning more about writing, hopefully, we can also improve our writing ability.
We will cover different ways of teaching writing,
such as the Controlled-to-Free Approach, the Free-Writing Approach, the
Grammar-Syntax-Organization Approach, the Communicative Approach, and the Process
Approach. Portfolio assessment will also be introduced as a contrast to the commonly used
traditional writing assessment which is more product-oriented. If time permits, teacher
responses to student writing might also be included in our discussion.
In addition to weekly reading assignments, students
will be responsible for presenting one of the readings to be studied in the course, and be
expected to participate actively in every class. There will be no midterm or final exams.
Instead, students will turn in two written assignments: a term project (choices of
tutoring, materials development, or research related to the teaching of writing), and a
philosophy essay (on their own experiences as a learner and on what has been read,
discussed, and experienced in this course).
Tentative Textbook:
Raimes, Ann. Techniques in Teaching Writing. New York: Oxford University Press,
1983.
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011. Pragmatics
2 credits
Dr. Mei-Chen Huang
For Juniors and Seniors
Student Limit: 30
Prerequisite:
Introduction to English Linguistics
This is a basic motivational
course which presents the fundamentals of a relatively new linguistic field, pragmatics,
which looks into the science of language as it is used in the dynamic interaction between
speaker and hearer. This course will provide both the theoretical and applied aspects of
pragmatics with particular emphasis on the following issues: presupposition, speech acts,
implicatures, indirectness, politeness and cross-cultural/interlanguage pragmatics. Class
participants are strongly urged to actively take part in class discussions, class
projects, and to read the assigned articles ahead of time to gain a better understanding
of the issues under consideration. In this class, students are also required to do
presentations and submit written reports on specific topics.
Tentative textbook: Yule, George. 1996. Pragmatics. NY:
Oxford University Press.
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012. Teaching
English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
2 credits
Mr. Douglas Shaw
For Juniors and Seniors
Student Limit: 35
This course is designed to provide
theoretical and practical training for those who may be interested in teaching English.
The course will examine such factors as lesson planning, textbook selection, testing and
evaluation, class size, social context, and purposes for learning. We will also draw on
your own learning and/ or teaching experience.
Text:
Celce-Murcia, M. (Ed.). (1991). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language,
Second Edition. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
Requirements: Lesson plans, small-group teaching
presentations, outside readings, class discussion.
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013.
Romantic/ Victorian British Literature
2 credits
Dr. David Yu
For Juniors and Seniors
Reading selected
Romantic and Victorian British writings. In this course, we will be concerned with how
authors responded to the major issues of the day: industrialization, poverty, pollution,
education, the position of the artist in society, and the changing roles of women,
children and the working class. Special attention will be given to literary
representations of and responses to the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the
struggle against black slavery, the crisis of faith, the idea of progress, utilitarianism,
and the imperialist notion of culture. We will focus on contemporary debates on sexuality,
aesthetics, religion, political and domestic economy and so forth. One recurrent concern
of the course is the way in which values (and ideologies) influence the cultural
productions of the periods in question. We will emphasize how sociopolitical and
historical change, philosophical disposition, and subjective consciousness get articulated
in verse and prose. There will be a midterm examination, a final examination, and
unannounced quizzes. Active intervention in class discussion is essential.
Texts
At this point, only The Norton Anthology of English Literature (6th
ed.), vol. II is required; I may, however, require additional materials closer to the
fall. For now, some recommended readings:
Prose:
William Wordsworth, ¡§ Preface¡¨ to Lyrical Ballads;
Dorothy Wordsworth, from The Grasmere Journals;
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, selections from Biographia Literaia;
Percy Bysshe Shelly, from A Defence of Poetry;
John Keats, letters in Norton;
Thomas Carlyle, from Characteristics, from Past and Present;
Thomas Babington Macaulay, ¡§ Minute on Indian Education¡¨
John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty, from The Subjection of Women;
John Henry Cardinal Newman, from Liberalism;
Matthew Arnold, ¡§ Sweetness and Light¡¨ from Culture and Anarchy,
¡§ Literature and Science¡¨ ;
Thomas Henry Huxley, from ¡§ Science and Culture,¡¨ from ¡§
Agnosticism and Christianity¡¨ ;
Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man;
Poetry:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ¡§ The Rights of Woman¡¨ ;
William Wordworth, ¡§ Lucy Gray,¡¨ ¡§ Resolution and Independence,¡¨
¡§ Ode: Intimations of Immortality,¡¨ ¡§ I wandered lonely as a
cloud,¡¨ ¡§ My heart leaps up¡¨ ;
Coleridge, ¡§ Frost at Midnight,¡¨ ¡§ Dejection: An Ode¡¨
;
George Gordon Byron, ¡§ She walks in beauty,¡¨ from Don Juan,
Canto I;
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ¡§ Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,¡¨ Ode to the West
Wind,¡¨ ¡§ A Song:¡¦ Men of England,¡¦
¡¨ ¡§ England in 1819¡¨ ;
Keats, ¡§ Ode to a Nightingale,¡¨ ¡§ Ode on a Grecian Urn,¡¨
¡§ To Autumn¡¨ ;
Alfred Tennyson, ¡§ The Lotos-Eaters,¡¨ ¡§ Ulysses,¡¨
¡§ Break, Break, Break,¡¨ ¡§ Tithonus¡¨ ;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh;
Robert Browning, ¡§ Porphria' s Lover,¡¨ ¡§ My Last Duchess¡¨
;
Arnold, ¡§ Dover Beach¡¨
Narrative Prose:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein;
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens, Hard Times;
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
The Woman Question:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ¡§ The Rights of Woman¡¨ ;
Sarah Stickney Ellis: from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic
Habits;
Harriet Martineau, from Autobiography;
Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House;
Dinah Maria Mulock, from A Woman's Thoughts About Women;
Florence Nightingale, from Cassandra;
Walter Besang, from The Queen's Reign
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014. Shakespeare
2 credits
Sr. Heliena
Krenn
For Juniors and Seniors
Course Objective: The aim of this course
is to acquaint students with the genius of Shakespeare as the greatest playwright of all
times. For this purpose we shall study a variety of plays: Comedy of Errors (1592¡X
94), Richard II (1595), Hamlet (1600-1), Twelfth Night (1601¡X
2), King Lear (1605), Macbeth (1606), and The Tempest (1611). This
selection will introduce you to Shakespeare as the writer of different kinds of drama¡X
comedies, tragedies, history plays, and romances¡X and to his handling of dramatic
art at the different stages of his development as a playwright.
Course
Requirements: Students are expected to read the plays closely and to contribute to
group and class discussions. There will be a take-home mid-term and an oral or in-class
written final exam.
Additional
Readings: All students are advised to read a general introduction to Shakespeare and
the introductions to individual plays we study. It is also very advisable that students
listen to the cassette tapes while reading the texts and/ or watch the video tapes of the
assigned plays. This can be done individually, in groups or as a class at a time of the
students¡¦ own choice. These materials are available in the audio-visual
centre of our college.
Texts: For most
texts we shall use the New Arden edition. If Comedy of Errors is not available in
this edition we shall make xerox copies.
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015.
20th Century British Novel and Film
2 credits
Ms. Jennifer Chiu
For Juniors and Seniors
When faced with a
complex and literarily rich work, the filmmaker has the difficult task of creating a
uniquely visual interpretation which will not only do justice to the spirit of the written
work, but which will effectively transfer to film. It is that process, and its relative
success or failure, upon which we will focus in this course. The literary works we read
and the films we view will provide a springboard for discussion. They include Joseph
Conrad's¦ Heart of Darkness (1902), E.M. Forster's A Passage to India
(1924), John Fowles's French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) and Kazuo Ishiguro's The
Remains of the Day (1988) and the films that have as their source the listed works
of literature. Course requirements will include a reader/viewer response journal, an
in-class presentation, a final paper, and spirited participation in class discussion.
Since classmates will be counting on each other to share ideas and interact, class members
MUST attend all classes on time and have all text readings, film screenings and
writing assignments completed as scheduled!
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016.
Survey of American Literature
2 credits
Dr. Joseph Murphy
For Juniors and Seniors
In this course we will read some short representative works
of American literature from the seventeenth century to the present. Our discussions will
focus on close analysis of texts (fiction, poetry, essays, speeches), while lectures will
introduce individual authors and survey important historical issues (the American
Revolution, Western expansion, slavery, immigration, industrialization) and cultural
movements (like Puritanism, Transcendentalism, realism, and modernism). Among the authors
on the syllabus are Taylor, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, Whitman,
Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, O' Connor, and Kingston. The
course offers students a deeper understanding of American culture and identity, a good
knowledge of some important literature, skills in literary analysis, and a framework for
future reading. Requirements include group study questions, occasional quizzes, a midterm,
and a final.
Text: The Norton Anthology of American Literature,
Shorter Fourth Edition.
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017.
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
2 credits
Dr. Raphael Schulte
For Juniors and Seniors
In this course we will sample
some of the various types of poetry written in the United States during the past
ninety-eight years, with an emphasis on short lyric poems. The primary objectives of this
course are (1) to enhance your appreciation and understanding of the range of American
poetries written since the turn of the century and (2) to provide you with a broad
critical framework of reading poetry. We will be reading poems by Robert Frost, H.D., T.S.
Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Robert
Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O¡¦ Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, and
James Wright, among others. If students are interested in reading other poets, please tell
the instructor and the instructor will try to arrange it.
Students will be expected to attend class and to come
prepared to discuss the assigned poems, as well as keep regular reading journals, complete
a mid-term exam, and write a final paper.
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018. Techniques of
English--Chinese Translation
2
credits
Ms.
Doris Chang
For Juniors and Seniors
Student
Limit: 25 (Maximum)
See the intructor for further information.
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019.
Journalistic Writing (advanced writing)
2 credits
Ms. Tzi-yu Lin
For Seniors Only
Student Limit:
25 (Maximum)
This course will aim to familiarize
students with English Newswriting through the reading and discussion of selected newspaper
articles and in-class writing of short news stories.
On a tentative basis, the second hour of class will be
given to reading a couple of stories of a selected type of news, e.g. accidents,
entertainment and business. Attention will be given to the style of writing and choice of
words. This will serve as preparation of the next class meeting, the first hour of which
will be devoted to in-class writing of a short news story.
The ability to type is a must while the ability to
wordprocess will be helpful. Stories will be handwritten in the earlier half of semester
and wordprocessed in the later half.
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020.
Business English Writing (advanced writing)
2 credits
Ms. Sara Woan-Ru
Shyu
For Seniors Only
Student Limit: 25
¡ "Business English Writing"¨ is designed for
those students who intend to work in the business world after graduation. The major
objectives of this course are to help students acquire the basic principles of business
communications and become familiar with three types of business writing.
Business writing is an indispensable tool in
conducting transactions. If a business transaction is to be completed to the satisfaction
of both the writer and the reader of the message, both of them must understand the
message. The words and the writing style used in business communications, therefore, must
be simple and exact. To meet these objectives, certain rules or principles have been
developed to help the writer of business communications make his meaning clear to his
reader.
In addition to acquiring the principles of business
writing, students will learn three types of business writing-- personal business letters,
professional business letters, and business reports. Personal business letters are written
by persons in private life to ask for information, to make appointments, to order goods,
to make complaints, and to secure a position. Professional business letters are written by
members of business organizations. They are used to conduct the affairs of business firms
domestically and internationally. Business reports can be divided into two kinds--formal
reports and informal reports. Formal reports may be long, detailed studies made to supply
needed information, whereas informal reports refer to short and simple interoffice
memorandums.
Topics to Be Covered in Fall 1998
A. Basic principles of business writing
B. The parts, arrangement, and punctuation of business letters
C. Various kinds of business letters
--ordering goods and replies
--inquiry letters and replies
--appointments letters
--complaint letters and replies
--credit status letters
--collection letters
Topics to Be Covered in Spring 1999
A. Sales letters
B. Personnel letters
C. Agency letters
D. Memo writing
E. International Trade Communications
--procedures in international trade
--documents for shipping
--documents for billing
Texts
A. Guide to Business Correspondence by A. Wainwright
B. Handouts
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021.
Review of English Writing Fundamentals (advanced writing)
2 credits
Mr. Curtis Diggs
For Seniors Only
Student Limit: 25
Are you close to graduating and you still have difficulties writing English? Do you
receive papers back from your professors with errors circled and you are not sure how to
correct the mistakes you make over and over? Do you ever say to yourself that English is
an impossible language to learn? This course is for YOU! Students will write weekly
compositions and complete workbook exercises.
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022.
Techniques of Chinese-English Translation (advanced writing)
2
credits
Mr.
Michael Tanangkingsing
For Seniors Only
Student
Limit: 25
This two semester course gives students an opportunity to develop a working
knowledge of Chinese-English translation techniques and problems. The course will offer a
workbook of Chinese language materials from which students choose projects to work on
individually and in cooperation with classmates in groups of 4--5. In the beginning we
will translate counseling columns, and then move to general current events news reports
and feature articles in Chinese newspaper. (In the second semester we will continue to
focus on newspaper projects, but will also offer samples from magazines and contemporary
fiction and essays.) Students will be expected to turn in 5--6 written translation
pieces 2 typed pages in length, and revisions. Class presentations and participation in
group work are required.
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