Summer 2007

Graduate Course Schedule

Session I

ENGL 9046 American Art and Literature 1800-1860
Benjamin Railton
MW 5:30-9:15
3 Graduate Credits

This course explores the relationship between the plastic art and the literary art of the new nation.  Students learn to identify the forces that inspired imaginative production in both art forms during the period that attempted to define the �American� style.  Slides of paintings as well as literary texts are studied.

ENGL 8250 Curriculum And Technology
Nancy O'Mealey
TR 5:00pm-8:45pm
3 Graduate Credits

This course looks at the integration of educational technology in the classroom, and its relationship to learning theories. Mac and IBM computer hardware, and interfaces for classroom inquiry including video and microscope cameras, digital image capture, scanners, and computer projection panels are examined. Students learn similarities between standard software programs available for writing, computation, and data analysis. It includes a survey of software for studies, ranging from Encyclopedias on CD-ROM to programs that are specific to the study of various topics in science, art literature, math, and language. The class explores the use of the internet as a classroom resource, the hardware and software necessary to get on line, search engines, browsers, URLs, online journals, education web sites, online interest groups, and how to design a web page.

ENGL 8076 Process Writing Across the Curriculum  
Patricia Smith
3 Graduate Credits
June 25, 27, 28 & July 2, 5
8:30am-4:00pm

Provides learners with the opportunity to investigate their own thinking as they go beyond the surface level of text or subject matter to arrive at meaningful connections and insights. Students investigate various creative approaches to writing in the content areas. They review current research journals to understand the connection between theory and practice. As they work independently and in cooperative learning groups, participants immerse themselves in the reading/writing/thinking process, creating their own portfolios, designing mini-lessons, conducting research, and sharing their learning and thinking.

Summer II

ENGL 9058 Contemporary World Literature
Chola Chisunka
MW 5:00pm-8:45pm
3 Graduate Credits

Particular emphasis in this course is placed on authors who write to effect changes in our perceptions of "the other" so we may understand "the otherness" of ourselves. Authors studied include: Marquez, Achebe, Gordimer, Fugard, Coetzee, Naipaul, Xingjian, Soyinka, Mahfouz, Neiuda, Jelnek et al.

ENGL 8070 Literature in the Classroom: Readers, Texts and Teachers
Kelly Budd
July 9-12, 16-19
8:00am-12:45pm
3 Graduate Credits

This course examines the place of literature in today's middle and secondary school classroom. Using the Standards for the English Language Arts (NCTE and IRA) and the Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Framework as guides, we consider the choice of classic and contemporary literature for whole class and individual reading, strategies for creating responsive and reflective readers of literature, and means of assessing student performance. We will explore the impact of new media and electronic technology on our thinking about literature, literature instruction, and the way people read is explored. Other topics include the application of multiple intelligence theory to the study of literature, the fostering of aesthetic experience of literature, ways of weaving women's literature and multicultural literature into the curriculum, and the teaching of Shakespeare. We experiment with and evaluate a variety of teaching approaches to engage students in active and critical response to literature. Required for MAT.

ENGL 8071 Literature for Young Adults
Susan Menanson
TR 5:00pm-8:45
3 Graduate Credits

Literature for Young Adults is a survey of current books written especially for middle and secondary school students, as well as a study of strategies for teaching them. The emphasis is on the newest books available in paperback that are suitable for classroom use or recreational reading. Strategies for encouraging student engagement with literature, for pairing young adult novels with the classics, and for sharing responses are modeled by the professor and evaluated by students. Students develop skill in evaluating young adult literature in terms of literary quality, reader interest, and teaching value.