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Sample Syllabus for English 102 Text in blue requires your review or refers to optional instructions that can be deleted. Instructor Name Office: instructor’s office English Department Mail Room: E T 637Office Hours: instructor’s office hours—80 minutes per week for each 4-unit classCampus Phone: instructor’s telephone numberEmail: instructor’s email address—this is optional Course Web Site: URL for course materials—this is optional English 102: Composition II Catalog Description Composition II:? Analytic and Persuasive Writing Prerequisite:? ENGL 101 or equivalent. Continuing to practice the rhetorical skills introduced in ENGL 101, students will analyze, interpret, and synthesize diverse texts in order to construct a well-supported, researched, academic argument. Graded A,B,C/NC. Course Description English 102 focuses on the conventions of academic writing, and the purpose of this course is to help students write convincing, well developed, and well organized essays that synthesize, document, and respond to various sources on a given topic. Class Theme: Our theme for this quarter is Myth America. Within this unifying theme, we will be exploring identity formation, examining in particular the role played by myth and fairy tales. We will look at some of the ways in which myths and fairy tales, both traditional ones and their modern counter-parts in popular culture, shape, reflect, and sustain our ideas about who we are, and we will also consider how our obedience to various kinds of authority helps us construct a sense of self. In addition to the readings in our text, we will analyze depictions in film, advertising, and various other media to see how myth and fairy tales can be used to reveal social and psychological phenomena, and we will also explore how and why we are often obedient to these media images. Learning Objectives Students will develop an ability to write about problems from historical, philosophical, rhetorical and/or cross-cultural and inter