uwi course
COURSE TITLE: Critical Reading and Writing in the Humanities
COURSE CODE: FOUN 1012
SEMESTER: ONE (2013-2014)
LEVEL: Year One (Foundation Course)
NUMBER OF CREDITS: 3
PREREQUISITE: A pass in the English Language Proficiency Test or its equivalent
DURATION: 13 weeks
Critical Reading and Writing in the Humanities will allow students to explore a variety of materials in the humanities and develop their skills in writing expository discourse appropriate to their disciplines by using a process approach to reading and writing. Students will focus on issues of question design, interpretation, evidence, methodology, analysis, objectivity, and clarity in writing in the humanities.
AIMS
FOUN 1012 aims to: provide students with the techniques and skills to read and comprehend materials in specific disciplines in the humanities. develop students’ ability to write exposition as appropriate for specific disciplines in the humanities.
OBJECTIVES:
Students who complete the course successfully should be able to: read, understand, summarise, and evaluate scholarly materials in the humanities design an effective question or choose an appropriate topic and a method for a humanities project evaluate, use, and document sources appropriately, including electronic databases bibliographies and other information sources use a process approach to produce humanities research essays independently and in collaboration with peers participate in oral, written, and online exchanges with peers (and tutors)
Prescribed Materials:
Bazerman, Charles. The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines. Fort Collins: CO, 2010. Available at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/informedwriter/
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. The Brief Wadsworth Handbook, 6th ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2010. ( or an equivalent handbook)
Lowe, C., and Zemliansky, P., eds. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Vol. 2. Anderson, SC: Parolor Press, 2011. Available at
COURSE CODE: FOUN 1012
SEMESTER: ONE (2013-2014)
LEVEL: Year One (Foundation Course)
NUMBER OF CREDITS: 3
PREREQUISITE: A pass in the English Language Proficiency Test or its equivalent
DURATION: 13 weeks
Critical Reading and Writing in the Humanities will allow students to explore a variety of materials in the humanities and develop their skills in writing expository discourse appropriate to their disciplines by using a process approach to reading and writing. Students will focus on issues of question design, interpretation, evidence, methodology, analysis, objectivity, and clarity in writing in the humanities.
AIMS
FOUN 1012 aims to: provide students with the techniques and skills to read and comprehend materials in specific disciplines in the humanities. develop students’ ability to write exposition as appropriate for specific disciplines in the humanities.
OBJECTIVES:
Students who complete the course successfully should be able to: read, understand, summarise, and evaluate scholarly materials in the humanities design an effective question or choose an appropriate topic and a method for a humanities project evaluate, use, and document sources appropriately, including electronic databases bibliographies and other information sources use a process approach to produce humanities research essays independently and in collaboration with peers participate in oral, written, and online exchanges with peers (and tutors)
Prescribed Materials:
Bazerman, Charles. The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines. Fort Collins: CO, 2010. Available at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/informedwriter/
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. The Brief Wadsworth Handbook, 6th ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2010. ( or an equivalent handbook)
Lowe, C., and Zemliansky, P., eds. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Vol. 2. Anderson, SC: Parolor Press, 2011. Available at