This method and enclosed materials developed by Professor Lea W. Fridman, Ph.D., uses …
This method and enclosed materials developed by Professor Lea W. Fridman, Ph.D., uses Permanent Teams, a rotating Team Leader and the use of social media and group chats to facilitate student teams as support.
Our world is created through stories. In this class (Great Works 2850, …
Our world is created through stories. In this class (Great Works 2850, in case you forgot), we will read a cross section/sample of riveting works of literature from the 17th century to the present. It will be beautiful. We are going to read across genres—novels, poetry, bits of memoirs, short stories. Hopefully, we can watch some movies, look at some art, and hold class discussions digging into art, literature, and politics, and everything in between. You’ll learn how to speak and write about literature using proper literary terminology without sacrificing your own voice and personal style in the process. We will reconstruct the socio-historical and cultural contexts of the texts we read. We are going to do a lot of scaffolded bits of writing to help us build to the bigger final essays.
“Ekphrasis: An Exploration of Poetry Inspired by Art” is a multidisciplinary Open …
“Ekphrasis: An Exploration of Poetry Inspired by Art” is a multidisciplinary Open Educational Resource that showcases ekphrastic poems in the public domain alongside the artworks that inspired them. Collections of resources about each poem and the associated artwork both complement and supplement the poems. Resources include biographical information about the poet, and the artist where applicable, as well as articles, videos, audio files, presentations, and podcasts illuminating the historical significance of each work of literature and piece of art.
Introduction to Literature: A course of study that includes lectures, discussion topics, writing …
Introduction to Literature: A course of study that includes lectures, discussion topics, writing lessons, links to literature, and assignments. Although designed to be taught in sequence, each section can also be used on its own.
COURSE GOALS Develop an appreciation for literature and its analysis as part …
COURSE GOALS
Develop an appreciation for literature and its analysis as part of encountering and understanding the world and its regions in a cultural and historical context; Develop close reading skills to interpret literary texts across different genres; Develop familiarity with some conventional disciplinary language and its use to think about how texts work (for example, assessing literary works in terms of voice, tone, and structure); Understand how context works with ideas to produce the meaning of a text; Use both informal and formal writing as opportunities to discover one’s own ideas in conversation with the ideas of others; Write a thoughtful, analytical and coherent essay that is firmly grounded in the text and adheres to MLA guidelines.
Puerto Rican, Latin@, and Caribbean children in New York City. Historical examination …
Puerto Rican, Latin@, and Caribbean children in New York City. Historical examination of bilingual policies and programming. Development of identity; knowledge and appreciation of heritage. Culturally relevant pedagogy. Multicultural education. Examination and evaluation of instructional materials and school policies. Prerequisite: English 1010 or permission of the chairperson.
This assignment is inspired by the learnings that arose from the workshop, …
This assignment is inspired by the learnings that arose from the workshop, “Fostering Play in the Classroom - Pedagogies to Build Creativity, Connection and Light to Oppressive Spaces”. Based on group dialogue, feedback, and the desire to build on pedagogies of play in the workshop, this science fiction short story assignment has been created as an additional layer of liberatory, contemplative learning for students that can be used/tweaked to work in a variety of courses. Powerful conversations arose in the workshop surrounding power/oppression, positionality and how this impacts our ability to engage in play, and the importance of holding both/and (i.e. - joy/sadness, pain/pleasure, restriction/liberation). This assignment attempts to deepen these reflections through creativity, storytelling, and removal of limits for dreaming in a world with obstacles.
In this class the topic is speculative fiction, an area of English …
In this class the topic is speculative fiction, an area of English Literature that includes Science Fiction and Fantasy, among other genres. Over the course of this class we will think about different reasons why people might read or write speculative fiction, culminating in an independent research paper where you will come up with your own question to investigate. The first half of the class will focus on exploring speculative genres and building a framework for literary analysis. We will continue this work into the second half of the class with an added focus on how to conduct research, formalize research questions and arguments, and write a longer academic paper.
This course provides students with an introductory understanding of identity, focusing specifically …
This course provides students with an introductory understanding of identity, focusing specifically on the concepts of gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, and other aspects of social location and identification. The course also includes an analysis of the appearance of gender and sexuality as integrated social concepts by reading and discussing contemporary American texts across multiple genres and media. This open educational resource was created specifically for English 2180 (Studies in Identity and Orientation) at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. If you have been assigned to teach this course or one like it, feel free to use and adapt the materials posted here. I have suggested a reading schedule under “Required Readings,” but you will find additional readings under “Recommended Readings” that you may use to replace or supplement the required readings. If you find any errors or broken links or if you have any suggestions for additional readings to add to this resource, please contact me at lwestengard@citytech.cuny.edu.
The premise of this series of classes is that the work of poet …
The premise of this series of classes is that the work of poet and essayist Audre Lorde has myriad lessons to teach us not only about current social issues and problems, but also about our individual and collective processes of dealing with them. The key question becomes: how can we use our feelings to negotiate our way through these issues? How can we use our selves—our experiences, our intuitions and the insights born of our differences--as resources? Lorde was adamant that all of our most difficult emotions and experiences could be *used* for our collective progress toward creating an equal, just and healthy society.
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