The arts of reading a text, summarizing its argument, questioning its suppositions, generating balanced opinions, and expressing those opinions with clarity and effectiveness lie at the center of university life and educated human endeavor. EA Lang R1B is designed to help inculcate those skills, paying particular attention to East Asian humanistic topics. This four-unit course focuses on how to formulate questions and hone observations into well reasoned, coherent, and convincing essays. Attention will be paid to the basic rules of grammar, logical construction, compelling rhetorical approaches, research techniques, library and database skills, and forms of citation.

"Spectrum of Silence" Silence is often met with unease - a gap to be filled, a void to be voiced. Yet what if we approach silence not as absence but as presence? How can we read silence or attune ourselves to its particular resonances? This course invites students to develop critical reading and writing skills by attending to silence in its many forms: as aesthetic choices, as political resistance, as alternative modes of navigating the world. Through close engagement with literature and films in the East Asian context - with a focus on the Chinese-speaking regions - we will explore silence as an interpretive lens to understand how language, history, and power operate across the projects of nation building, historical remembrance, gender politics, and disability rights. Throughout the course, students will cultivate an attention to silence's richness rather than its presumed emptiness, while developing the vocabulary and skills of close analysis.

Requisites

• Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills