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HCOM 311: LS only:GWAR Pract.Reason&Comm

Section 1 - 3 Units

Section Information

Days, Times, and Locations

Friday
9:00 am - 11:50 am
6th Ave. Classrooms & Service Learning Institute - Rm. 105 - map

Class Number (Formerly CRN)

40498

Instructor(s)

Sunita Lanka

Enrollment

Seats OpenSeats TakenMax. Seats
-2 28 26
Enrollment History

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Faculty Information

Sunita Lanka

Email: sulanka@csumb.edu

Phone: 582-4233

Office: Humanities & Communication, Room 150

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Department Information

Name: Humanities and Communication ~ Division of

Email: humanities_communication@csumb.edu

Phone: 582-3889

Fax: 582- 3780

Building: Humanities & Communication

Website: http://hcom.csumb.edu

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Course Description:

Develop and apply abilities in oral and written communication and related critical thinking skills. Develops empathic and critical listening, reading, viewing, writing, and speaking skills for deliberation, problem solving, and community building. Students apply and assess reasoning and argumentative skills in oral, written, and visual communication contexts on various topics. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies ENGCOM A and ENGCOM B. For Liberal Studies students only. (Offered every semester.)

Corequisites, Prerequisites & Restrictions:

Footnotes:

  • Meets Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR).

Start & End Dates:

Start: August 24, 2009
End: December 20, 2009

Consent Requirements:

Catalog History

Course Materials

book

Mike Rose, Lives on the boundary : a moving account of the struggles and achievements of America's educational underclass (New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 2005)
ISBN: 0143035460
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Required Reading

book

edited Wendy Bishop and James Strickland, The subject is writing : essays by teachers and students (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2006)
ISBN: 0867095865
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Required Reading

book

Suzanne Bratcher, The learning-to-write process in elementary classrooms (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997)
ISBN: 0805822550
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Required Reading

book

Diana Hacker ; contributing authors, Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig ; contributing ESL specialist, Marcy Carbajal Van Horn, A writer's reference (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2007)
ISBN: 9780312450250
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Reccomended Reading