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Course Description:
This is a three-hour-per-week course designed to train and develop in the students the skills of
effective study habits, communication in the English language, critical thinking and reasoning, and
socially desirable a itude, as keys to success in college in particular and in life in general.
Objectives:
Generally, at the end of the semester, the student must have developed effective study habits and
skills, English communication skills, critical reading, thinking and writing skills, and desirable social
a itude.
Course Contents:
Methodology:
To achieve the objectives of this course, the following techniques and methodologies shall be used:
Mediated Lectures-Discussions
Group Research and Presentations
Free and Graded Recitations
Role-Playing
Brainstorming
Quizzes
Exercises
Examinations
Grading System:
Midterm: Semi-Final:
A endance: 15% A endance: 15%
Recitation: 15% Recitation: 15%
Quizzes: 15% Quizzes: 15%
Research Output: 15% Research Output: 15%
Research Presentation 15% Research Presentation 15%
A itude: 10% A itude: 10%
Midterm Exam: 15% Final Exam: 15%
Only an absence of nine (9) cumulative hours or six (6) contact sessions are allowed for each student.
Each absence shall translate to a corresponding .25 deduction from a endance points, to wit:
• 1 absence = 1.25
• 2 absences = 1.5
• 3 absences = 2.0
• 4 absences = 2.25
• 5 absences = 2.5
• 6 absences = 2.75
• 7 or more absences = 5.0
Cumulative tardiness of ninety (90) minutes shall mean one (1) absence, unless prior consent from the
professor has been sought by the student.
References:
1. Basilio, Sylvia, et al. Study, Thinking and Writing Skills. GMK Publishing House, 2010.
2. Tiempo and Tiempo. College Reading and Writing (latest edition). Rex Book Store.
3. Moore, Brooke N. and Richard Parker. Critical Thinking (7th International Edition). Boston:
MacGraw Hill. 2005.
4. Rosenwasser, David and Jill Stephen. Writing Analytically. Thompson Wadsworth, 2006.
5. Kemper, Dave, et al. Write Source, A Book for Writing, Thinking and Learning. Massachuse s:
Great Source Education Group, 2007.
6. Vandermey, Randall, et al. The College Writer, A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching (3rd
Edition). Massachuse s: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
7. Hinman, Lawrence M. Ethics, A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory (3rd Edition). University of
San Diego: Wadsworth, 2003.
8. Other printed and online sources.
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