Week    Content  

1   Course Overview        

2   Writing 1    Transitions    

3   Oral training 1                

4   Oral training 2     

5   Oral training 3    

6   Oral training 4 

7   Oral training 5   

8   Midterm Week          

9   Writing 2           

9   Oral training 6         

10 Oral training 7

11 Oral training 8       

12 Oral training 9            

13 Writing 3

14 Writing 4

15 Self evaluation, course evaluation and instructor evaluation        

16 Final Week

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1. Attendance and participation (20%) – Each student is expected to prepare for and attend all classes. Small group discussions and reflective exercises will occur at every class meeting and students are expected to participate in a focused and professional manner. Students are also encouraged to ask questions. I recognize that absences due to illness and emergency are inevitable. However, only one excused absence is permitted.

2. Cultural Promotion Project (30%) – Your team (3-4 students) is in charge of a company’s marketing department. You know that currently every local authority is specifically targeting its local culture as well as delicacies. Now each one of them is looking to expand its presence & influence within the culture. Come up with a proposal on how you would plan on expanding tourism within the cultural perspective – be as creative and as specific as possible. The final product should entail 2-3 pages of writing along with maybe 12-15 slides of ppt to present your proposal (roughly).

3. Leading Debate (20%) – Each student is required to lead debates (20 minutes) based on one’s selected reading material (less than one page preferred). This reading material should be submitted to the instructor a week before the presentation and distributed in class. Debate Questions should also be prepared in advance.

4. In-Class Papers & Individual Essays (20%) – Usually, the whole class would finish one essay together, yet students would have to do it individually at times based on assigned topics.

5. Final Portfolio (10%) – Students are required to collect all their papers during the whole semester. Put them as a portfolio and submit it to the instructor at the end the last class.

Selected teaching materials will be assigned as related to class content.