2020年度

＜概要/Course Content Summary＞

This course is offered in real time only, as an online Zoom class. The relevant Zoom details will be posted on DUET by Monday 21 September. For privacy reasons, no audio or video recording of the classes will be available. The first class will begin at 1640 on Thursday 24 September. Students are to ensure they have the relevant textbook before the start of the first class. The course will enable students to build on basic English writing skills practised in the introductory version of the course. Together, the teacher and the student will collaborate to review earlier work on paragraphs and begin to set them out in an academic essay. A polished academic essay is the final task on this course. The theme of this course remains the relationship between the state and the individual and the essay will address it based on a political science-related topic of the student's choice. The teacher will help the student to choose the topic. Examples of topics include but are not restricted to the future of compulsory state education, transnational internet trolling, the United Nations and state sovereignty, equality under the law, and so on.

＜到達目標/Goals,Aims＞

By the end of the course, students will have improved their ability to write English multi-paragraph essays to a high standard, and will have submitted an academic essay on the theme of the relationship between the state and the individual.

＜授業計画/Schedule＞

This course places a reading burden on each student in the form of homework. It also places a writing burden on each student in the form of paragraphs, essays and related homework assignments. Each student will be required to present an idea orally in class. While every effort will be made to account for any disability, hearing impaired students should note that there is a degree of group discussion and reporting in each class. Some blackboard writing and demonstration work will be presented to the class by the teacher. This should not discourage interested students with any kind of impairment. However, we will have to work together to find some strategies to use in class to achieve the desired outcomes.

＜成績評価基準/Evaluation Criteria＞

This distribution of marks covers reading (participation and quizzes), writing (essays and paper), listening (participation and contribution in class), and speaking (oral presentation and in-class discussion). Feedback will be given as soon as possible on all quizzes, and on drafts of paragraphs or essays submitted for review by the teacher.

＜成績評価結果/Results of assessment＞   成績評価の見方について/Notes for assessment

＜テキスト/Textbook＞