Welcome!
This website contains lots of useful information and many links which you will find helpful throughout the trimester. It is my hope as your instructor that you have a meaningful and engaging trimester in my class. Looking forward to our next meeting!
Introduction
Ideally this class will foster student learning both with each other, and independently through writing and through class discussion. Students should be treated as intellectuals, and identify themselves as such. As students you should be readers who can research, learn, understand and create.
My main objective for this course is to create an environment where students are interested, engaged, intellectual and aware of global and cultural issues. Taking this course should enable students to become people who do relevant work both in the class and after they leave it, who feel that they can make a difference in today’s world. My curriculum revolves around reader response and connecting our novel studies to real-life, present-day situations, and the current state of society.
Students will also create a class blog which they will each contribute to, both as authors and as commentators. These blog posts and responses will serve as a jumping off point for our class discussions.
Through this course students will also be able to examine the role a government can play in society, and the impact of social customs and norms. Through Utopian and dystopian literature students will become both culturally and globally aware. Students will complete a major assignment in which they will look at various topics of social/political injustice or other issue of cultural social/political conflict. Students will then create a website about that issue, creating awareness or fulfilling some other specific purpose towards those means.
This website contains lots of useful information and many links which you will find helpful throughout the trimester. It is my hope as your instructor that you have a meaningful and engaging trimester in my class. Looking forward to our next meeting!
Introduction
Ideally this class will foster student learning both with each other, and independently through writing and through class discussion. Students should be treated as intellectuals, and identify themselves as such. As students you should be readers who can research, learn, understand and create.
My main objective for this course is to create an environment where students are interested, engaged, intellectual and aware of global and cultural issues. Taking this course should enable students to become people who do relevant work both in the class and after they leave it, who feel that they can make a difference in today’s world. My curriculum revolves around reader response and connecting our novel studies to real-life, present-day situations, and the current state of society.
Students will also create a class blog which they will each contribute to, both as authors and as commentators. These blog posts and responses will serve as a jumping off point for our class discussions.
Through this course students will also be able to examine the role a government can play in society, and the impact of social customs and norms. Through Utopian and dystopian literature students will become both culturally and globally aware. Students will complete a major assignment in which they will look at various topics of social/political injustice or other issue of cultural social/political conflict. Students will then create a website about that issue, creating awareness or fulfilling some other specific purpose towards those means.