Professor Laura Harris, M.A.
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M.A. English 2015TESOL Certificate 2015Reading Certificate 2016Composition Certificate 2013
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Hello Students!
Iteach online English courses at MJC; I love teaching online because it's awonderful way of engaging in critical reading, thinking, and writing with 21stcentury learning tools. I work to make my courses interesting, engaging, andorganized with a large variety of content delivered in multi-media format, somy classes are interesting and not boring.
Hereare some of the topics we study through reading, reflecting, discussing,learning, analyzing, and writing in my classes:
ENGL100—INTENSIVE READING, WRITING, AND REASONING 5.0 unit class satisfies ENGL 101 while providing extra support for grammar, vocabulary, and critical thinking.
Thisis a great course to develop as readers, writing, and thinkers--we learn how tocritically think with our own individual process while learning and practicingthe reading and writing process. Currently, I teach this course around thetheme of SUCCESS!, which really intrigues and engages my students as they learnabout themselves, how they learn, and how to be successful not only as studentsbut in many aspects of life. It's fun; it's interesting; it's amazing asstudents transform themselves in many ways. We build a foundation for learning,reading, writing, and analyzing that connects to your other courses and yourlives!
ENGL101 Composition and Reading 3.0 units satisfies transfer English requirement for CSU, UC, and other universities
Thiscourse is awesome because we learn how to comprehend and analyze what we read,so that our essays are writing themselves while we're reading intriguingnovels, enlightening articles, and discussing social development, socialsolutions, posing problems, and finding solutions while we're developing ourreading and writing processes through practicing critical thinking aboutinteresting and relevant issues in the world that we live in. Some of thethemes for these classes include--
1.Social Influence/Social Conformity
2.Academic & Personal Success
3.The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
4.Genius!
5.Harrowing stories Immigration from the South
ENGL103 Advanced Composition and Critical Critical Thinking
Thisis a fun class spent learning fundamentals of logic, how to break downarguments, recognize and explain arguments, and writing our own arguments.
Weanalyze commercials and advertisements, urban legends, and critical socialissues of our era. We also look at pros and cons of issues of technology, takea position, and construct our own argument for or against. Content is full ofintriguing reading, compelling videos, lively discussions, and engagingwriting. We have fun breaking down the arguments of video commercials students choose, urban myths, and we tackle a current horrendous social issue with rich readings, videos, and current events. We research this issue individually, find multiple sides of the arguments, then argue for our own solution. It's amazing to hone and develop critical reading, thinking, and writing skills with compelling and intriguing content.
Ilook forward to meeting you in cyberspace to learn and have fun in onlineEnglish!
~ProfessorHarris