IRW 115 Syllabus
Portland Community College
CRN 21335
Spring 2024
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Class Schedule
Class Schedule
Class meets twice:
Tuesday and Thursday
from 11 - 1:50pm
in SE Campus Library, room 207.
Before class, I will have office hours, when you can pop in to discuss homework with me or get help on an assignment. I will also be available by appointment - just email to ask for a time to meet up.
Time Commitment
Time Commitment
Success in college takes a considerable commitment of time and energy.
This class will require at least 10-12 hours a week of work.
If you are having difficulty with this, come talk to me, or talk with classmates about how they manage their busy schedules. You might be surprised at the creative ways people juggle their lives.
What will I learn?
What will I learn?
Upon completion of the course you should be able to:
Read to understand the use of rhetorical concepts (situation, audience, purpose, argument, inquiry, voice, tone, formality, & design)
Use composing and reading strategies for inquiry, comprehension, and critical thinking.
Practice locating, evaluating and using information effectively and ethically to construct a line of inquiry and encourage intellectual curiosity.
Use reading strategies to compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with appropriate sources in support of a central idea.
Use writing conventions (content, form, format, citation) to meet the expectations of diverse audiences.
Use flexible strategies for pre-reading, reading, reviewing, rereading, correcting comprehension, drafting, revising, and editing.
Prerequisites: (RD 90 and WR 90 or equivalent placement) or IRW 90 or (ESOL 260 and ESOL 262).
Learn more about you're going to learn here.
Office Hours
Office Hours
You will hear professors in college talk about office hours, and you may wonder exactly what that means. Office hours is time that we set aside to answer your questions. We sit in our offices and wait for our students. Maybe you want help with some writing, or have extra questions about a reading we did. Maybe you are having trouble keeping up with the work and want some encouragement or strategies. Come to office hours! They are like an extension of class time, except you get a one-on-one with me to talk through anything going on in class.
My office hours are after class 2-3 on Tuesday, 10-11 Thursday and by appointment. Just ask to meet with me! You can find me in my office in Mt. Tabor Hall, room 123.
Classroom Atmosphere
Classroom Atmosphere
I expect that you will:
take responsibility for your work
show up ready to learn, even if something is hard
collaborate with peers and support your classmates
trust that the learning process, though long and frustrating, will get you there
not expect yourself to be perfect
use respectful language toward yourself, your teacher, and your peers
engage in academic debate and honest, civil discussion, even on topics that frustrate you
In return, I promise to:
give you thorough, kind, and critical feedback on your work
expect you to do your best, but not expect perfection
be clear about my expectations listen to your concerns and respond to them as best I can
be available to meet with you outside class on request & within reason
accommodate a variety of learning styles
offer access to outside resources
help you prepare you for writing in the rest of your college career
Book
Book
About the Book
About the Book
Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found—love, identity, family—and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations.
Author Emilly Prado
Also available in audiobook!
Also available in audiobook!
You can get the Overdrive audiobook from the PCC library...free!
Also check out audiobook options from the Multnomah County Library and/or the Audible app.
In this book, Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth. Emilly spends the late 90’s and early aughts looking for acceptance as a young Chicana growing up in the mostly-white suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Portland, Oregon in 2008. Ni de aquí, ni de allá, she tries to find her place in the in between.
The book is available in the PCC bookstore. During the first week of school, you can use financial aid to purchase your books. It is possible to use audiobooks to accompany written text; if you would like to use an audiobook, go for it - the Multnomah County and PCC Libraries have several copies of this book available for free checkout.
This book is required and you can't pass the class without reading it.
Class Policies
Class Policies
Learn more about the class policies and atmosphere by clicking here, and visit the individual pages below for more specific information.
Statement of Acknowledgment of Indigenous Land
We acknowledge that the campuses and centers of Portland Community College rest on the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, and Clackamas bands of the Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River. Multnomah is a band of Chinooks that lived in this area. We thank the descendants of these tribes for being the original stewards and protectors of these lands since time immemorial. We also acknowledge that Portland, OR has the 9th largest Urban Native American population in the U.S. with over 380 federally recognized tribes represented in the Urban Portland Metropolitan area. We also acknowledge the systemic policies of genocide, relocation, and assimilation that still impact many Indigenous/Native American families today. We are honored by the collective work of many Native Nations, leaders and families who are demonstrating resilience, resistance, revitalization, healing and creativity. We are honored to be guests upon these lands. Thank you, and thanks also to our colleagues at the Portland State University Indigenous Nations Studies Program for crafting this acknowledgement.
Sanctuary College
Sanctuary College
PCC is a sanctuary college. Find out more on our resources for undocumented students page.
QRC
QRC
The Queer Resource Center is an amazing space for LGBTQ+ students. Please check it out!
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