LART 200 Green Sheet

“Tales of Love, Oppression, and Survival:
Developing Reading & Writing Connections and Study Skills”
LART 200/Counseling 80X
Learning Community

Spring 2007
Where: L-35 When: 1:30-3:50, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs LART 200 01-D (2532) / Counseling 80X-55D

Instructor Information:
Veronica Acevedo Avila (Counseling)
Office: SCS241 (Student Services Building)
Office Hours:
Phone:(408) 864-5652
e-mail:avilaveronica@fhda.edu

Ken Weisner (Writing)
Office: PE 41J
Office Hours: MON, 12:30-1:30 (PE41J)
TUE, 3:45-4:45, (PE41J)
WED, 6:00-7:00, (L-41B)
THUR, 12:30-1:30 (WRC, ATC 309)
Phone: (408) 864-5797
e-mail: weisnerken@fhda.edu or gyre@cruzio.com
Web page: http://members.cruzio.com/~gyre/ken/
(Portal: http:// www.deanza.fhda.edu/faculty/weisner)

Kristin Skager (Reading)
Office: Reading Readiness LC 138
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs., 11:30-12:30 or by appt.
Phone:(408) 864-8542
e-mail:skagerkristin@fhda.edu

Tutorial Center: L-47, Diana Alves de Lima, 864-8682
Writing and Reading Center: ATC 309, Karen Chow, 864-5840
Student Success: http://www.deanza.edu/studentsuccess

Goals:
In LART 200/Counseling 80X we will
1. Draw from a variety of different learning styles, such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic to respond to topics.
2. Make use of pre-reading strategies, involving the use of background knowledge, such as the KWL, SQ3R, and PPC and post-reading activities, such as journal writing, comprehension monitoring, discussion and the use of graphic organizers.
3. Read carefully; annotate, discuss, and analyze texts and improve comprehension and focus.
4. Decipher word parts and use context to understand and use new vocabulary.
5. Make use of pre-writing strategies including free-writing, notebook writing, clustering, brainstorming and outlining.
6. Write paragraphs that are well conceived, organized and supported.
7. Write and revise papers for content, structure, style.
8. Write grammatical sentences.
9. Write with sentence variety.
10. Punctuate sentences correctly.
11. Type assignments and practice word processing.
12. Write approximately 500 words a week.

Requirements:
1. Attend class regularly and on time.
2. Do your best to fully participate in class discussions and activities.
3. Four papers, app. 3 pages each = 600-800 words,
due: 4/23, 5/3, 5/21, 6/11
4. Drafts of papers due: 4/11 (in class writing), 4/30, 5/16, 6/6
5. Revisions due (one required): 5/30, 6/20
6. Complete presentation assignment.
7. Keep up on reading, writing, and homework assignments, including vocabulary and worksheets. See tutor weekly if advised to!
8. Final (1:45-3:45—note unusual time—Wednesday, June 27 in ATC 102).

Texts and supplies: always bring these to class!
1. Dead Above Ground, a novel by Jervey Tervalon
2. LART 200/Counseling 80X Reader (availability TBA).
3. A college dictionary, lined paper, pens.
4. A ring-binder style notebook just for this class.

Grades:
Although this is a "Pass/No Pass" course, we will always be able to tell you how you are doing in the course, and we like rewarding excellent work!
For those of you interested in our point system, here’s how it works:

Pass = 70% = 700 points or more,No Pass = less than 70% = less than 700 points
Total W R C
Papers (100 points each) [400] 400
Quizzes & Homeworks (Reading: 12 x 20)(Counseling 5x20) 240 100
Quizzes & Homeworks (Writing: 8 x 25) [460] 200
In-Class Activities: 8 X 20 points each [160] 80 80
Drafts: 4 x 25 points each [80] 100
Class Presentation [160] 160
Drafting a Narrative [100] 100
Journals [80] 80
Vocabulary collection [40] 40
Final exam: [200] 100 100
Participation and attendance: [420] 200 200 20
______________________ 2,200 = 1,000 1,000 200

Notes:
You must attend each of the first four classes, or we will assume that you have dropped. Please call and leave a message on our voice mail (please see page 1) if you need to excuse yourself from a class period. Students who miss more than three classes total cannot expect to pass the course. Come and talk to us if you are having trouble of any kind as we want to listen and help if we can. (If for any reason you must stop attending this course, be reminded to go through the official college "drop" procedure, or you will receive an "NP.") You must enroll in and attend all parts of the learning community to obtain the total units (11) for all three courses; however in the past some students have not passed all three courses. In that case, you will receive credit for the courses passed and you must retake the other course(s).

All papers including drafts should be typed and double-spaced. The computer labs in ATC 102 and 103 are available to you and printing is free! We will go there as a class once every other week, but you should feel free to explore and use this space on your own as well. Lab computers also allow you to work on grammar and ESL websites as well as do web-based research.

Tutorial services in L47 and the WRC are extremely important resources for you. The WRC features drop-in tutoring. In L-47, you can get scheduled weekly tutoring as well as take SKILLS CLASSES. We will be referring you to tutors over the next couple of weeks and recommending various skills classes to some of you. Feel invited to go into the WRC and L47 and read their brochures and check out their course offerings. Talk to a tutor or secretary there about their resources, and/or sign up to see a tutor or take a class.

We have kept the price of books and supplies and supplies at a minimum but if it is a serious financial burden to you, please see us about book grants and loans available to students who are on financial aid.

Plagiarism (passing off the words or ideas of others as your own): will give you an automatic "F" on the assignment in question and put your course grade and college standing in jeopardy. If you use the ideas or words of others, you must give them credit immediately, in writing. See your instructor if you want to make sure you are correctly and appropriately crediting any sources you use.

Welcome to LART 200! We are very excited about teaching this course, and we hope that you will have a productive, rewarding and enjoyable learning experience.