SUU ENGL 2030-01: Advanced Grammar

Please note that there is now a prerequisite for this course--ENGL 1120. You may take that class during the same semester that you enroll in 2030.

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First Assignment Schedule

Class Policies

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Professor: Dr. Julie Clark Simon

BC 301   TTh 11:30-12:50 p.m.

Required: Kolln, Martha, and Robert Funk. Understanding English Grammar. 8th ed. New York:

      Longman, 2009.

Required:Thomas, Lee, and Stephen Tchudi. The English Language: An Owner's Manual. Boston:

       Allyn Bacon, 1999.

 

 Articles on library electronic reserve (Go to the library link on the SUU homepage; find the "electronic reserve" link under "articles" and follow the prompts. If the article doesn't pop up on your home computer, try downloading a newer version of Adobe Acrobat.)

 

Course Objectives

The SUU course catalog describes this class as follows: "An advanced class that contrasts traditional, structural, and transformational approaches to grammar within the framework of language history and linguistic diversity." Because this is an advanced class, you are expected to enter it already knowing how to identify parts of speech and to analyze sentences as linking, transitive, or intransitive. Or will you need to sign up for 1120 before or at the same time that your are taking 2030.

You may look forward to achieving the following by working through English 2030 assignments:

  • As a citizen and future teacher:  You will demonstrate an understanding of the linguistic context that values the dialect of Academic English above all others and the beginnings of a critical awareness of the personal, pedagogical, and political effects of that judgment.
    •  How will this outcome be measured? By your growing ability to take a critical  perspective informed by descriptive linguistics on assigned exercises and readings. You will demonstrate this proficiency in response papers  by applying and questioning concepts asserted in the readings to linguistic controversies.
  • As a writer:  You will demonstrate an understanding of the  basic structures of Standard Written English and the rules that native speakers (mostly) unconsciously follow as they assemble words into communications that "make sense."
    • How will this outcome be measured? By your performance on assignments and tests that will require you to identify and define key terms, analyze the structures of the language, diagram sentences,  and answer essay questions.
  • As a student and editor of your own writing and that of others:  You will demonstrate a knowledge of the traditional usage rules most often violated by people attempting to move from regional and social dialects to academic English.
    • How will this outcome be measured? By your performance on assignments and tests that will require you to identify and define key terms, analyze the structures of the language, diagram sentences, answer essay questions, and demonstrate knowledge of the rules of standard edited written English.

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Course Requirements: (For details, click here.)