NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 大一英文(0924)
(Eng.) Freshman English
Offering Dept Language Center
Course Type Required Credits 2 Teacher TU, HSIU-LIEN
Department General Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description The course aims to develop vocabulary, academic, and critical thinking skills. Students experience topics through fascinating readings in a wide variety of genres and formats to become familiar with material they might face in or outside the college classroom. The course emcompasses academic lectulres and thematic interviews of diverse content areas. Language usage and structural analysis are the pivotal concerns of the classroom activities.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
The primary goal of this course is to develop the English communicative competence of first-year B-level students (non-English majors) Upon completion of their course, students are expected to acquire: (1)the ability to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from context; (2)the ability to comprehensive main ideas in everyday conversations, short talks and articles;(3)the ability to understand English spoken in a range of academic, professional and social settings.
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Lecturing
Written Presentation
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Study Outcome
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 course orientation
group discussion
Week 2 Chapter 3 - Caring for your health
Week 3 Chapter 3 - My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Week 4 Freshmann English pre-test
15%
Week 5 Chapter 3 - Tech in healthcare
Week 6 Chapter 3 - The Challenge of Alzheimer’s

Written Assignment - What do you do to maintain your health?
Week 7 Chapter 10 - Our emotions
Week 8 Chapter 10 - This app knows how you feel
Week 9 Chapter 10 - Emotional intelligence

Written Assignment - How to cope with depression?
Week 10 Midterm Exam
Week 11 Chapter 5 - Community building
Week 12 Chapter 5 - How painting can transform communities
Week 13 Chapter 5 - Changing places
Week 14 Chapter 5 - Barefoot College
Week 15 Group project - A Better Community
Week 16 Review all chapters and work on the group project
Week 17 Online project presentation
Week 18 Final exam
Evaluation
group project 25%
midterm 20% final 20%
pre-test 15% assignment 20%
Textbook & other References
Keynote 3
c(ISBN 978-1-337-10412-8)
Paul Dummett, Helen Stephenson, and Lewis Lansford

Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
NCHU i-learning 3.0
Office Hours
office hours
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
03.Good Health and Well-Being   04.Quality Education   05.Gender Equality   08.Decent Work and Economic Growth   10.Reduced Inequalities   12.Responsible Consumption   16.Peace and Justice   17.Partnerships for the Goalsinclude experience courses:N
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Update Date, year/month/day:2024/08/23 13:06:31 Printed Date, year/month/day:2024 / 10 / 11
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