Reading <Fall 2003>

Instructor: Yuyen Chang

If any question E-mail:

yuyenc@mail.cgu.edu.twInformation about

homework and handouts: –http://163.25.114.8/yu-yen/

index.htm–http://163.25.114.8/yu-

yen/2r2003.htm

Weekly Syllabus

10. Introduction and Orientation/ “Sonnet to Science”

11. “The Signs of Life” by Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes / “What Is a Book?”

Great Thinkers

12. “Idols of the Mind” by Francis Bacon [selection from Bacon’s essays]

13. “The Universe and Dr. Einstein” by Lincoln Barnett [popular scientific writing]

A Special Presentation14. “Reflections: Readi

ng Practice, Intellectual History, and Critical Judgment”

[presented by the instructor/ The related power-point files are available.]

Brainstorming via dialogues

15. “The Medical Lessons of History” by Thomas Lewis [magazine article]

16. “The Breakthroughs in Medicine” by James McConnell [a response to Lewis’s commentary]

Reflections: A Movie and Final Exam

17.Extreme Measures [DVD collection in Chang Gung University Library]

18. Final Exam [Vocabulary, Q &A and one short essay]

Grading Policy:

Attendance + Participation 10%

Short Oral Reports and/ or Quizzes 20%

Final Exam 20%

Be cautious!Be cautious!

Don’t cut any class. Don’t cut any class. [One AWOL= -10/ [One AWOL= -10/ one AWL= -5]one AWL= -5]

AAWL= absence with official WL= absence with official permitpermit

AWOL= absence without AWOL= absence without leave; away from position leave; away from position without permission.without permission.

Classroom mannersClassroom manners

Please turn off Please turn off your mobile your mobile phones or phones or beepers before beepers before the class starts. the class starts.

Don’t eat, Don’t eat, drink, drink, smoke, smoke, telephone, telephone, or sleep in or sleep in classclass..

Important!Important!

Don’t prepare other subjects Don’t prepare other subjects (calculus, physics, biology and so (calculus, physics, biology and so on) in English Reading class. [Study on) in English Reading class. [Study other subjects =AWOL]other subjects =AWOL]

Don’t miss any test or quiz. Under Don’t miss any test or quiz. Under no circumstance will the make-up no circumstance will the make-up tests be given.tests be given.

This is an English class!This is an English class!

Do have your Do have your handouts and handouts and an English-an English-English English dictionary dictionary every class.every class.

Do practice Do practice English in English in English English class.class.

Further Reading:

(Books Reserved in Chang Gung University Library)( 1 ) 書名：一個細胞的告白 生物醫學家湯姆斯的物種思想手記

作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Thomas Lewis 出版者：先覺 ISBN/ 年代： 957-607-422-3 / 200

0410 8566:3 89

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( 2 ) 書名： The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher

作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Thomas Lewis

出版者： New York Bantam ISBN/ 年代： 0553340662 / 1983

Q147 T454 1984

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( 3 ) 書名： The Lasker Awards: Four Decades of Scientific Medical Progress

作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Thomas Lewis 出版者： New York Raven Press

ISBN/ 年代： 0881672246 / 1986 W20.5 T454 1986

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( 4 ) 書名：The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biolog

y Watcher 作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Thomas Lewis 出版者： New York Penguin Bo

oks ISBN/ 年代： 0140047433 / 1978QH501 T454 1978

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(5 ) 書名： Francis Bacon 作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Francis Bacon 出版者： Oxford University Pre

ss ISBN/ 年代： 0192541986 / 1996

PR2205 V53 1993

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( 6 ) 書名： The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Steven Pinker 出版者： Viking ISBN/ 年代： 0670031518 / 2002BF341 P47 2002

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( 7 ) 書名： Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Mind

s 作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Harold Bloom

出版者： Warner Books ISBN/ 年代： 0446527173 / 2002

BF412 B58 2002

                         

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(8 ) 書名：How to Read and Why 作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Harold Bloom 出版者： New York Touchstone

Books ISBN/ 年代： 0684859076 / 200

1PN83 B57 2001

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(9) 書名： Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children

作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Albert Einstein 出版者： Prometheus Books ISBN/ 年代： 1591020158 / 2002

QC16.E5 A4 2002

10(10) 書名：The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of

Medical Perception 作者 ( 姓 , 名 ) ： Michel Foucault 出版者： New York Pantheon Books ISBN/ 年代： 0679753346 / 1973

WZ59 F762 197

Thank you for Thank you for your your cooperation cooperation and and participation!participation!Reading (Fall 2003)Reading (Fall 2003)