Freshman English Course Syllabus (EGC) Fall 2023

Instructor: James Harris E-Mail: harri440@gmail.com

Textbook: Breakthrough Plus 2 – Student Book (NO WORKBOOK)

Please buy a NEW book (NO WRITING IN THE BOOK)

Week 1 Introductions/Syllabus

Week 2 Unit 1

Week 3 Unit 2

Week 4 Unit 3

Week 5 Unit 4

Week 6 Unit 5

Week 7 Unit 6/Midterm Review

Week 8 MIDTERM TEST

Week 9 Unit 7

Week 10 Unit 8

Week 11 Unit 9

Week 12 Unit 10

Week 13 Unit 11

Week 14 Unit 12

Week 15 Final Exam Review

Week 16 Final Test Week

Note: This schedule may change due to festivals, holidays and other events

Class Info: Dos & Don’ts

DO:
● Come to class prepared and on time
● Participate in class
● Check the cyber campus regularly for announcements, quizzes, homework, materials, etc..
● Sit in your assigned seat every class
● Be respectful to everyone in class
● Contact me only through cyber campus messaging or email

DON’T
● Be late
● Contact me by text message, phone call or kakao talk.
● Give me a 사유서 without the proper documentation
● Miss any quizzes or homework
● Use your phone to translate everything you want to say or write down in English

Grading:
Attendance (출석) 20%
Homework(숙제) 10%
In Class Participation(참여도) 10%
Quizzes (퀴즈) 10%
Mid-Term (중간고사) 20%
Final Exam (기말고사) Writing/Speaking - 30%
15% each

Attendance
● All attendance will be done through cyber campus
● 30 minutes late = no attendance
● 3 classes late = 1 absence
● 75% of semester attendance required to get a grade
○ 30 classes(days) in semester: You can miss 7.5 classes
○ 8 classes no attendance = F (attendance fail)

Quizzes
● You will have 3-4 quizzes during the semester.

Homework/Participation
● You will have 3-4 assignments during the semester.
● All homework will be submitted on cyber campus
● Participation points will be given/lost based on classroom performance

Midterm
● Midterm will be a written test taken during week 8

Finals
● Final Speaking Test and Final Writing Test taken during the last week of the semester