Contact Info:
- Email: karl.sherlock@gcccd.edu. If you are currently enrolled in this instructor's courses, please use Canvas messaging instead of e-mail for all contact.
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Courses:
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FALL 2023
- ENGLISH 120: COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND READING
- 16-week (08/21/23 to 12/16/23): sections 1139, 1150, 2241, and 3018
GENERAL INFO
3.0 Units
Meets 100% online
Asynchronous (self-paced; class meetings do not follow a weekly schedule of days/times; attendance optional for periodically scheduled online meetings)
PREREQUISITE
C” grade or higher or “Pass” in English 99, 109, or 110 or ESL 119 or 120 or equivalent or completion of the assessment process with appropriate score for entrance to English 120.
REQUIRED TEXTS FOR PURCHASE (PRINT OR E-BOOK)
The following are pertinent to these sections of English 120 and may be purchased online as e-book/Kindle editions or as print editions. Audiobook versions available for some text. ISBNs indicate paperback editions only.
Brotherton, Rob. Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories. Reprint edition. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017. ISBN: 9781472915634
Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things. Revised ed. Holt Paperbacks, 2002. ISBN: 9780805070897
Hacker, Diane and Nancy Sommers. Pocket Style Manual. 9th ed. Macmillan, 2021. ISBN: 9781319169541
SUPPORT RESOURCES ON-LINE
These online resources are free of charge and used for editing and revising course assignments.
Purdue University, College of Liberal Arts. Purdue OWL. owl.purdue.edu/
- B.A.., University Of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- M.A., University Of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Independent Study, School Of Irish Studies, Dublin
- Fulbright, Uniwersytet Warszawski
- M.F.A., University Of California, Irvine
- Doctoral Study, SUNY Binghamton
Courses Taught:
- English 098: English Fundamentals
- English 110: College Composition
- English 020: Support for Freshman Composition
- English 120: Composition and Reading
- English 124: Advanced Composition
- English 126: Introduction to Creative Writing
- English 140-143: Poetry Writing I-IV
- English 160-163: Drama Writing I-IV
- English 219: Views of Death and Dying In Literature
- English 231: American Literature I
