Syllabus

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UBU-UH Project 2013

Second Year Faculty of Management Science

Instructor: Mint

Monday-Wednesday 4:30 pm-6:30 pm

Classroom location:  MS 117

Office hours – Mon-Thurs from 2:00 pm-4:00pm (MS 107)

Contact information: priwpraemint@gmail.com

1      Description

The goal of this course is to promote creativity and critical thinking (especially compare-contrast, and understanding cause and effect) in academic and business contexts.  Through an eight week series of business-themed situations; there will be speaking and listening activities, communicative problem solving, reading and listening strategies, essay writing, free writing, and topic presentations. These activities will bring awareness to plagiarism, workplace bullying and conflicts, and other issues in business ethics. 

2      In this course you will be doing many activities that will help you with your final project.          

Free write journal entries

Create simple blog entries

Use basic business vocabulary

Write summaries

Organize paragraphs

Use research from the Internet

Cite resources

Express opinions and/or feelings orally and in writing

Present a topicclearly

Write an essay

3      Projects

Weekly Blog Entries

Instead of quizzes, students write weekly blog entries.

Final Essay

Through process writing tasks, students will submit a final essay addressing a topic of their choosing based on class content. 

            Presentation

Students will present the topic of their essay in a Power Point slide presentation.  Presentations will be followed by question and answer sessions. 

4      Evaluation

Attendance and Participation          30%

In-class activities                                 20%

Weekly blog entry                               20%

Final presentation                              15%

Final paper                                           15%

Extra credit                                             3%

Extra credit: Write a 150-300 words summary of an article of your choice.

5    Attendance

1.     Late: More than 5 minutes late (late = 1 absence)

2.     3 lates = 1 absence

3.     If you cannot come to class, please tell or email your teacher

6     Participation

1.     Comment on the blog posts each week (2 pts/week)

Notes

• Laptops are allowed in class for course work only.
• Only paper dictionaries are allowed in class.
• Cell phones are NOT allowed in any occasion.
• Facebook is not allowed in class. Because Facebook is a virtual world, if you are using Facebook between 4 pm and 6 pm then you are not present in my classroom from 4 pm and 6 pm. Therefore, if I catch you on Facebook in my classroom you will be counted as absent for the day.
• This course syllabus provides a general plan for the course; changes maybe made.
• The goal of this course to learn to write a persuasive essay with the effective use of summarizations, but most of all I want you to ENJOY learning.