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Nature of course request C01885 :

Title change

400/500 course

Others

others:
Research Paper

From:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
LING 450/550	Grammar and Writing	4 - 0
To:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
LING 450/550	Linguistic Analysis of Style and Genre	4 - 0

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Style and Genre

Current Course Description: Approaches to grammar and grammar instruction. Topics to be covered include history of grammar as a field of study; a historical overview of grammar instruction; relationship between grammar and writing; ongoing debate on the contributions of grammar to writing; current approaches to grammar for rhetorical/stylistic effects especially as they relate to the conventions and sentence-fluency traits of the Oregon Writing Assessment. Prerequisites: LING 210 and LING 315, or consent of instructor.

New Course Description: Analysis of style and genre from a linguistic perspective. Topics to be covered include the history of style/genre in the context of language instruction and writing assessment; sentence fluency and syntactic development in the context of genre-specific texts; stylistic punctuation.

Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): The original title ¿Grammar and Writing¿ didn¿t accurately reflect the content of the class; however, there was no term in the field of linguistics to `cover¿ the content. For the past few years, linguistics has adopted and modified the terms `genre¿ and `style¿ to reflect textual analysis from a linguistic (rather than literary) perspective. We have attached syllabi from 4 years (2002-2010) to indicate that the content has remained fairly consistent (with slight changes to account for student and instructor interests) and has primarily dealt with examination of style from a historical perspective (history of grammar, for example) as well from a current perspective (sentence fluency and complexity as well as stylistic punctuation) Finally, students find the term `grammar¿ intimidating; it is only after they have taken the class that they tell us they didn¿t realize there was so much to understand about language, style and genre and that the term `grammar¿ doesn¿t do justice to the class.

Students/Program affected: English majors; Lg. Arts majors.

Approval Queue C01885

Attached Files:

slb450s10.docx

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