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Sep 27, 2024
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OPIE D710 - Stories in the News
Students in this four contact-hour per week course will work to improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills while they study and report on current news stories and contemporary world issues.
Requisites: Course is developmental
PERMISSION REQUIRED
Paper TOEFL: 451 minimum
IBT: 46 minimum
Composition: 36 minimum
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,NC,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students read regularly from newspapers and from Internet news reports and background material to develop comprehension of news stories. Students will read extensively to prepare oral reports and research projects.
- Students will gain experience using the internet as a research tool, in evaluating websites, and in evaluating and citing source material.
- Students will listen to and discuss an assigned weekly broadcast of international news. Students will demonstrate comprehension of each broadcast through performance on a weekly quiz.
- Students will prepare a weekly summary of the top news stories of a country or region of choice. For a news topic of choice, students will prepare either a short paper, an oral report, or a web page.
- Students will prepare and deliver short weekly oral reports on news from a country or region (not their own) of choice using English-language daily news stories from the library and from the internet.
- Students will take notes, practice paraphrasing and acknowledging sources, and will write summaries and essays about topics related to top news stories.
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