UofR Department of English ENGL100 Syllabus Submissions Portal




Engl 100 Syllabus Review

ENGL 100 syllabi are expected to comply with the Department Handbook stipulations for this course. Before submitting your document, please respond to the following the questions to make sure your syllabus meets the requirements.
Is this your first time teaching ENGL 100 at the University of Regina?
Does your syllabus include your uregina email address?
Do you clearly articulate your course’s mode of delivery (Face-to-Face, Hyflex, Blended, etc., which MUST match the modality listed in UR Self-Service), and how students should participate in your course and final exam?
Is 1/3 of your course’s content devoted to composition instruction and 2/3 of content devoted to the study of literary texts?
Do your course’s readings include Literature (e.g. poetry, short stories, plays, novels, or other literary texts) and Non-fiction and Academic Prose (e.g. articles from the disciplines, magazines and newspaper articles, nonfiction, or other non-literary texts)?
Does your course include one extensive reading project (of a full novel, play, or unified volume of stories, poems, etc.)?
Does your course include at least one work by an Indigenous North American author?
Do you specify word counts on all assignments?
Does your course include 3-4 writing assignments of approximately 500-1,000 words each?
Does your course include a minimum of 2 writing assignments devoted to literary topics?
Is take-home written work in your course weighted at no more than 40% of the final grade?
Does your course describe assignments without providing including specific essay questions or prompts? (Not incuding specific questions can help to prevent plagiarism)
Does your course stipulate an invigilated face-to-face final exam worth 30% of the final grade?
If your participation grades exceed 5% of the final grade, are they accompanied by assignments or tasks that can be reassessed? (Reminder: participation grades cannot exceed 10% of the final grade)
Does your course stipulate that students who fail the final exam will fail the course with a grade of NP?
Does your syllabus include a clear statement of the policies governing AI use in the course? Please clearly indicate whether generative and/or other forms of AI are prohibited or permitted, and for which elements of the course.
Does the composition portion of your course cover the following specific areas listed in 7.1.2 of the Department Handbook?
• Analyzing and solving problems; • Establishing argument-evidence relations; • Analyzing audience; • Analyzing purpose; • Analyzing rhetorical situation (occasion); • Citation, documentation, quotation, and paraphrase; • Pre-writing strategies, such as concept maps, brainstorming, & outlining • Writing strategies, such as exposition, argument, persuasion, description, & narration • Post-writing strategies, such as peer review, editing, and proof-reading • Sentence editing, with a focus on wrong word and homonym errors, comma errors, vague pronoun references, faulty sentence structure including fused sentences, fragments and mixed constructions; apostrophe errors; faulty quotation, paraphrase, and documentation.
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