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Fall 2011
English 23000: Great Narrative Works.
English 10600-020: First-Year Composition. Theme: Composing Through Literature.
Spring 2011
English 10600: First-Year Composition. Theme: Documenting Realities.
Fall 2010
Latin 20100-001: Latin III (Enrollment: 19). This course is the third semester of Latin at Purdue University, which continues to use the Reading Latin series by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell (Cambridge UP). The course builds upon the skills the students learned in their first year of Latin, emphasizes an in-depth review of Latin grammar and syntax, and continues to promote their ability to read unmodified literary Latin. The texts focus on extracts from Cicero’s orations against Cataline, Virgil’s Aeneid, and other sources.
English 10600–R38: First-Year Composition (Learning Community: Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS). Enrollment: 18). The EPICS learning community is comprised solely of first-year engineering students, and it is intended to promote retention as well as to allow the students an opportunity to make in-depth connections between their major field and the liberal arts. The composition course here is the same as other 10600 composition courses at Purdue, yet I’ve focused this particular class towards a study of “Science and Society” in order to appeal to the engineering students and to help them forge wide-ranging connections between their major interests and society at large, particularly in terms of the social, political, and ethical impact of science.
Spring 2010
Latin 10200-001: Latin II (Enrollment: 18). This course is the second semester of First-Year Latin at Purdue, using the Reading Latin series by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell (Cambridge UP). The course builds upon the skills with grammar and vocabulary that the students learned in their first semester and continues to promote their ability to read unmodified literary Latin. The texts focus on extracts from Plautus’ comedies and Cicero’s orations against Verrus.
English 10600: First-Year Composition (Enrollment: 20). This composition course is required of all students at Purdue, and the syllabus approach we are using this semester is called “Documenting Realities.” The course encourages the students to write about differing cultural and social perspectives, and it examines the uses of public rhetoric, advertising, color, and multimedia along with its focus on traditional composition skills and critical reading.
Fall 2009
Latin 10100-001: Latin I (Enrollment: 24). This course is using the Reading Latin series by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell (Cambridge, 1986). The students come to the class with a broad background and the intent is to enable them to begin reading unaltered literary Latin by the end of the first year. The course focuses upon basic grammar and vocabulary as it introduces the concepts of case, Latin word order, morphology,and syntax, and I particularly try to emphasize the vast impact that Latin has had upon English in terms of linguistic borrowing and grammar.
English 10600R: First-Year Composition (Enrollment: 16). Learning Community: “Understanding People and Society.” English 10600 is the basic composition course at Purdue University and as a part of the Sociology learning community this semester, the course is based upon writing from a sociological perspective. In this learning community, the students take three of their classes together as a group, and all of the students are drawn from the liberal arts–primarily education, sociology, and pre-law. A learning community at Purdue includes out-of-class experiences, and this class incorporates diverse trips to museums, historical places, and international culture opportunities (particularly with food). In other respects, the course incorporates the basic requirements of composition at Purdue, including a focus on traditional composition skills, close reading, rhetorical analysis, audience awareness, argumentative writing, and an understanding of composition using diverse media.
Spring 2009
Purdue University, English 10600: First-Year Composition (Enrollment: 20) Syllabus Approach: “Documenting Realities.” Although the basic composition course at Purdue, the exact focus of the class is left up to the instructor and one of several “syllabus approaches” may be chosen, each with a different theme for the understanding and use of writing. The overall theme of this syllabus approach, and of this course in specific, is to document social reality through writing, and thereby to understand (and incorporate into student essays) a nuanced perspective of culture and society. This course incorporates the basic requirements of composition at Purdue, including a focus on traditional composition skills, close reading, rhetorical analysis, audience awareness, argumentative writing, and an understanding of composition using diverse media.
Fall 2008
Purdue University, English 10600: First-Year Composition (Enrollment: 18). Syllabus Approach: “Documenting Realities.”
Spring 2008
Kent State University, English 11011: College Writing I (Enrollment: 25). The first of two required composition courses. The focus is on cross-curriculum academic writing.
Fall 2007
Kent State University, English 11011: College Writing I (Enrollment: 25).
Kent State University, English 11011: College Writing I (Enrollment: 25).
Spring 2007
Kent State University, English 11011: College Writing I (Enrollment: 15).
Academic Year 2005-2006
Lycée Grand Technique Franklin Roosevelt, Reims, France
English Assistant. Instructor for twelve one-hour English conversation courses with French high school students. The course sizes varied from one to twenty students, most often in an environment separate from their regular English classes. The focus of the teaching was to promote the students’ English conversational skills and diverse tactics were used, including conversational dialogue, games, music, and some grammar and pronunciation instruction.