Debate and Discussion 1

214 Eng

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Course Outline: Debate & Discussion 1

 

Course Title: Debate & discussion 1

Course Code: Eng 214

Number of Credit Hours: 2 hours

Instructor:   Mr. Omar Jabak   E-mail: [e-mail]

Website:         faculty.ksu.edu.sa/76235

 

Course Description:

            This course helps students develop debate and discussion skills for classroom as well as for real life encounters. Debate and Discussion 1 presents students with the basic skills needed to engage in a debate. Realizing the elements that make up a debate, students are expected to ensure that their performance should not be vulnerable to lack of knowledge, manner, and debating techniques. The textbook as well as the supplementary material used in classroom all provide an integrative view of a health debate.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course students will be able to:

-state an opinion

-agree to an opinion

-disagree with an opinion

-refute an opinion

-give reasons

-give support

-refute a source

-respond to attacks

-criticize an opinion

-differentiate between debatable and lame issues

-interrupt a speaker politely

Calendar, Course Contents and Assignment Specifications:

 

Time	Topic	Assignment
First Week:	Introduction to the course	No Assignment
Second Week:	Definitions: Debate, Opinion, Fact, Mediator, Debating Teams, Debatable Issues, Lame Issues	Each student must write 5 statements on debatable issues and 5 statements on lame issues.
Third Week:	Have an opinion: Opinions of Value, Policy, & Fact	Each student must give 5 statements on each of the following: opinions of value, policy, and facts.
Fourth Week:	Explaining your opinion: supporting your opinion & types of support	Each student must give his opinion about an issue and explain how to support it.
Fifth Week:	Organizing opinions, Signposts; macro and micro-organization for the affirmative team, Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Sixth Week:	Refuting explanations: refuting opinions, Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Seventh Week:	Challenging supports & testing Supports, Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Eighth Week:	Organizing refutation; macro and micro organization for the negative team & Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Ninth Week:	Mid Term Test	Mini debates: students are grouped and given issues to argue about. They should apply what the have learned
Tenth Week:	Debating an opinion; debate Formats & Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Eleventh Week:	Discover debate; flowing a full Debate & Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Twelfth Week:	Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Thirteenth Week:	Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.
Fourteenth Week:	Practice	Students must collect data about a topic to be discussed in classroom.

 

Evaluation:

 

 

Activity	Mark
Mid term test	40 Points
Mini debates	40 points
Teacher’s  Evaluation	20 Points

 

Required Texts:

Lubetsky, M., LeBeau, C., & Harrington, D. (2000). Discover Debate: Basic Skills for

Supporting and refuting Opinions. California: Language Solutions Incorporated.

Attendance:

            The number of hours students are allowed to be absent is seven hours only, including medical excuses and emergencies. If a student is out of attendance for three weeks successively, he will be automatically withdrawn and will not be eligible to submit the end-of-term project and thus will not be graded for any work he submits. Students who show up after the lesson starts will be marked absent.

Participation:

            Participation is different from Attendance. Participation for this course means that you are expected to contribute to the class discussion in a substantive way. Learning Team

Participation does NOT count toward participation. Participation includes the quality of your comments and questions.

Internet Sites for Debate & Discussion:

http://flynn.debating.net/old/genguide.htm

http://flynn.debating.net/colmmain.htm

http://eagle.northwestu.edu/academic/artsci/faculty/ggillespie/quick_tips_for_debating.htm