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Program Overview
Course Description
The Essay Writing course teaches students to produce longer and substantial essays of several paragraphs. Attention is given to the process of developing formal argumentative essays and the short research paper. Emphasis is placed on the rules of evidence and the methods of presenting it to support the points of view used. This prepares students to write a term paper of 1250 or more words, demonstrating the ability to handle the mechanics of research and synthesize findings from secondary sources. Grammar is emphasized throughout the course, with a focus on verb tenses, modifiers, rules of punctuation, relative pronouns, and prepositions.
Course Aims
- Write longer and substantial essays of several paragraphs on unseen topics.
- Apply two types of essay writing: classification and process-analysis essays.
- Apply new methods of development used in these types of essay writing.
- Use correct grammar in the following points: tenses, modifiers, rules of punctuation, relative pronouns, and prepositions.
- Produce essays free of dangling modifiers, run-on sentences, incorrect antecedents, and sentence fragments.
- Write research papers analyzing a work of their choice.
Learning Outcomes
- Introduce the classification essay.
- Introduce the process essay.
- Introduce the differences between a directional process and an informational process.
- Review correlative conjunctions and articles for classification.
- Review adverbial clauses of time reduced to participial phrases, adverbial clauses.
- Write well-organized academic essays.
- Correctly apply new elements of process analysis and classification essays.
- Use correct language and grammar in writing.
- Write well-supported points throughout the two types of essays.
- Complete writing assignments on time.
Department of English
About the Department
The Department of English offers a comprehensive study plan that includes various courses such as Essay Writing, Linguistics, and Literary Studies.
Study Plan
The study plan is divided into levels, each offering a range of courses:
- Level 4: Includes courses like Poetry, Essay Writing, Linguistics 2, Phonetics, and Introduction to the Literature of America.
- Level 5: Offers courses such as Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Romanticism, Shakespeare 1, Public Speaking, and Literary Studies.
- Level 7: Includes Advanced Writing, History of English Language, Morphology & Syntactics, Linguistics 3, Discourse and Spoken Discourse, and Victorian Poetry.
- Level 8: Features courses like Sociolinguistics, Transformational Grammar, Contemporary Poetry, Contemporary Play, Contemporary Novel in Britain, and History of Literary Criticism 2.
Quality and Scientific Research
The department emphasizes quality and scientific research, with a focus on academic staff, research activities, and publications.
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Department of Law
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Academic Programs
The university offers various academic programs through its colleges, including:
- Business Administration Program
- English Language Program
- Law Program Each program has its own set of annual reports, developmental and operational plans, learning outcomes reports, performance indicators, and self-study reports, ensuring a high standard of education and research.