Class schedule

Week 1

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 2/2		Introduction Syllabus and course policies Plagiarism
Wed. 2/4	Read: What is Multimodality? Introduction and The Social Environment of Contemporary Communication	Presentation and discussion Workshop
Fri.  2/6	Read: 9.1 Rhetorical situation and rhetorical strategies	Presentation and discussion about rhetorical situation Workshop

Week 2

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 2/9	Choose a text (documentary, news story, ad, news show) and do a multimodal analysis identifying the rhetorical situation of the text	Students presentation of their analysis Discussion Group work
Wed. 2/11	Theme: Happiness Research about Documentaries	Discussion Watch documentary
Fri. 2/13	Happiness First listening assignment due	Analysis of documentary

Week 3

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 2/16	No class	CLAUSTRO (I won't be present)
Wed. 2/18	Theme: Learning languages Research about lectures and speeches	Lecture Discussion Workshop
Fri. 2/20	Read: The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech Katie and video on Language Learning.	Discussion and analysis of speech Guest Speaker Tom Hong Do

Week 4

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 2/23	Elements of good speeches	Discussion
Wed. 2/25	Theme: Language learning	Watch lecture Discuss
Fri. 2/27	Complete a survey on language learning habits  Second listening assignment due	Watch TED talk Workshop

Week 5

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 3/2	Review of first section of assigned book (quiz and discussion)	Workshop and quiz
Wed. 2/4	Theme: Video games Read: How to structure news stories	Discussion Analysis of news stories
Fri. 2/6	Write a news story	Group work Presentation of news story

Week 6

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 3/9	Prepare Academic presentation of a scientific discovery	Presentations
Wed. 3/11	Prepare Academic presentation of a scientific discovery	Presentation
Fri. 3/13	Prepare Academic presentation of a scientific discovery	Presentation

Week 7

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 3/16	Read: Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture (Chapter TBA) Comedy variety shows	Discussion Workshop Analysis of comedy shows
Wed. 3/18	Bring analysis of rhetorical structure of political comedy show	Discussion Group work
Fri. 3/20	Third listening assignment due	Workshop

Week 8

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 3/23		No class Holiday
Wed. 3/25	Research about sitcoms	Discussion Workshop
Fri. 3/27	Review second section of assigned book	Workshop and/or quiz

Week 9 (recess for Holy Week 3/30-4/3)

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 4/6	Read: Teaching English through songs Academic presentation of a song	Presentations
Wed. 4/8	Academic presentation of a song	Presentations
Fri. 4/10	Academic presentation of a song	Presentations

Week 10

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 4/13	Technology: Robots Moving image Read: Technology and society	Discussion Workshop
Wed. 4/15		Movie
Fri. 4/17	Fifth listening assignment due	Workshop Discussion

Week 11

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 4/20	Technology: Research about Debates	Discussion Group work
Wed. 4/22		Watch political debate Analysis
Fri. 4/24	Complete workshop Review third part of assigned book	Work on debate

Week 12

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 4/27	Prepare debate in groups	Debates
Wed. 4/29	Prepare debate in groups	Debates
Fri. 5/1		Labor Day No class

Week 13

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 5/4		Introduction to final project
Wed. 5/6	Debate	Discussion Work on project
Fri. 5/8	Debate Work on final project

Week 14

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 5/11	Workshop last part of book. Literature and cinema relations	Movie
Wed. 5/13	Proficiency Test
Fri. 5/15	Summer Fest	No Class

Week 15

Date	For Class	In Class
Mon. 5/18		Holiday No Class
Wed. 5/20	Final presentation	Final presentation
Fri. 5/22 Mon.  5/25	Final presentations	Final presentation

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Boskin, J.  (1997). Rebellious laughter: People's humor in American culture. Syracuse University               Press. Link https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrz0ettff2p0229/American%20laugh%2C%20American%20dream.pdf?dl=0

Duarte, N. (2010). The secret structure of great talks. TED Talks. Retrieved from                                          http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks

Jewitt, C. (2009a). An introduction. In C. Jewitt (Ed), The Routledge handbook  of multimodal         
          analysis (pp. 1-7). Abingdon: Routledge. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/44vb0s5tl9nfa1u/Intro%20tomultimodality.pdf?dl=0

Kress, G. (2010). Multimodality a social semiotic approach to communication. London: Routledge Falmer. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wtj4d4m7m70ihdm/Pages%20from%20Multimodality%20a%20social%20semiotic%20approach.pdf?dl=0 

Rogers, T. (n.d.) How to structure news stories. Retrieved from                                            
          http://journalism.about.com/od/writing/a/storystructure.htm

Treasure, J. (2013). How to speak so that people want to listen. TED talks. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen

Waldman, M. & Newberg, A. (2012). The 8 key elements of highly effective speech. Psychology today blog. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/words-can-change-your-brain/201207/the-8-key-elements-highly-effective-speech

Winet, K., Jacobson, B., and Tucker, M. (2014) (eds.). A Student’s Guide to First-Year                    Writing, 35th ed. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil Publishing. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tghwh6lffryg35m/Reading%20%20Rhetoric%20chapter-9.1.pdf?dl=0

Slideshow presentations

Álvarez V. José A. A multimodal Social Semiotic Approach to Rhetorical Analysis. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xllhkluzns5di6m/Multimodality%20power%20point%20%281%29.pptx?dl=0