讀中生智：字裡行間的永續未來

課程概述

Reading to Connect: A Sustainable Future Between the Lines aims to align the acquisition of critical reading and thinking skills with the promotion of responsible and impactful conduct that contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This course includes theme-based lectures, discussion fora, and industry expert talks. This course also engages students in individual and collaborative tasks and assesses their performance through discussion participation, weekly quizzes, a midterm group project, and a final learning evaluation task. Upon course completion, not only will students advance their capacity to read with a critical eye, but they will also show their willingness to commit to economic, environmental, and social sustainability, hence their cultivation of global citizenship.

教學目標

Core Competences (CCs)
Students will achieve the core competences that follow:
CC 1:  Independent judgment and ability to innovate
CC 2:  Professional knowledge and skills
CC 3:  Communicative and team skills

Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs)
Students will achieve the learning outcomes that follow:
CILO 1: Identifying textual organizations and developing reading strategies for genre texts and vocabulary enlargement (CCs 1, 2 & 3)
CILO 2: Analyzing and summarizing arguments, including main ideas, supporting details, viewpoints, and biases (CCs 1, 2 & 3)
CILO 3: Demonstrating awareness of national and global issues through reading genre texts and responding critically to textual information (CCs 1, 2 & 3).
CILO 4: Applying critical reading skills and appropriate items of evidence to argument evaluation (CCs 1, 2 & 3)

每週進度及教學內容概述

其他課程要求

• Active participation in all classroom activities, including discussion forums, assignments, and other interactive activities is essential and constitutes your course attendance.
• Excessive absences may impact your grade and eligibility for course credit.
• Adherence to academic integrity in all course work, with proper citation of sources in discussions, assignments, and projects.
• This course is taught completely in English

延伸閱讀

1. Topic 1 Extensive Reading Selections:

• Piracy Gave Me A Future By Daniel Starkey (https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Achieving_the_Dream/Book%3A_Accelerated_English_(Ashley_Paul)/12%3A_Unit_6%3A_Practice_Exam_Materials/12.3%3A_%E2%80%9CPiracy_Gave_Me_A_Future%E2%80%9D_by_Daniel_Starkey)
• Period Poverty Is Forcing Young Girls To Avoid After-School Clubs And Sports
  ( https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/period-poverty-forcing-young-girls-to-avoid-after-school-clubs-and sports_uk_5d4aa48ce4b09e72973f10c9?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALBu4mzpuxQrTUC9TfXWepq_9aJ1XcBMoxgTcoPtS09stay1LsssrCuvx_STKUU7e3sP6MzWwUoq_vKQ4b5au3tK0l65WH6ymKaTVoQL7bl6FfVDX92DcwNwTGe51U_WrsEKqvOBNG7wd_jqm6oIxrA2yAN4zLEVCIZ7ZiWSdWW3)
• Joshua Inwood “MLK’s vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in poverty https://theconversation.com/mlks-vision-matters-today-for-the-43-million-americans-living-in-poverty-92380

2.Topic 2 Extensive Reading Selections:

• Gender bias in science – new data on a man’s world (https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/12/08/gender-bias-women-science-open-data/)
• Breaking Gender Stereotypes: a Young Girl Reminds Women and Girls of Their Rights https://www.unicef.org/innovation/stories/breaking-gender-stereotypes

3.Topic 3 Extension Activity: The Story of Human Rights https://youtu.be/6XXGF_V8_7M

4.Topic 4 Extension Activity: How technology redefined can be a social justice super power. https://youtu.be/EEPlzDpOIc0

5.Topic 5 Extension Activity: The link between climate change, health and poverty by Cheryl Holder, TEDMED 2020 | March https://youtu.be/jQTykJb

6.Topic 6 Extension Activity: How to bring affordable, sustainable electricity to Africa Rose M. Mutiso, TED 2019 https://youtu.be/77HUdJ7Tij0

7.Topic 7 Extension Activity: How to fix a broken education system … without any more money Seema Bansal, TED 2016 https://youtu.be/jQTykJb

成績評量方式與標準

對學生課後學習之要求

Prior completion of assigned readings and related tasks is mandatory to ensure meaningful contribution to class discussions.