ENGL 593

Fall 2012 All Classes

All Classes

Prof Seminar College Tchg

Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated by Ph.D. candidates as topics vary, but without credit, after 8 hours have been earned in this course. Students needing the proseminar for their programs will be given priority enrollment. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the Department of English or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 593 class schedule data for fall 2012
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32361	Lecture-Discussion	D	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	English Building	Schaffner, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Section Title: The Teaching of Rhetoric Section Info: Topic Section D: The Teaching of Rhetoric This is a course for students new to the teaching of college composition. Over the course of the semester, we will explore connections between theories of written composition and teaching practices. In particular, students in the course will theorize practices relating to: syllabus and assignment design, conferencing with students, responding to student work, dealing with conflict, maintaining language diversities in the classroom, and developing teaching personae. Requirements for the course include reading, participating in class discussion, blogging, drafting a statement of teaching philosophy, and creating a reflective teaching portfolio. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s).
32365	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	English Building	Erickson, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Section Title: Teaching of Bus & Tech Writing Section Info: Topic Section P: The Teaching of Business and Technical Writing. Section P will meet in room 107A English Bldg. This professional seminar is designed to ground graduate students in some of the salient genres, discourse conventions, and styles privileged by discourse communities engaged in business, as well as help those students construct a sophisticated conceptual understanding of writing well suited to the instruction/learning of writing-as-a-verb for those discourse communities. More importantly, this seminar will help its students critically engage useful pedagogical theory and theory from the field of business/technical writing, so they might improve their effectiveness as classroom instructors. This seminar is required of all graduate students teaching business/technical writing for the first time. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s).
60073	Lecture-Discussion	P2	11:00AM -12:50PM	R	English Building	Curry, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: The Teaching of Film Section Info: Topic Section P2: The Teaching of Film This seminar, a prerequisite to teaching English 104 (Introduction to Film) and a practical (and resume-building!) foundation for teaching basic cinema/media courses otherwise, has three goals: to give participants a grasp of film form (e.g., practices of lighting, camerawork, editing); to survey currently dominant analytic approaches in cinema studies, and to impart and practice strategies of teaching cinema and related media forms in the classroom. The first goal, a focus at the beginning of the semester, involves participants in small groups themselves producing short photo series and videos. The second content-oriented component, the substantial focus after the first few sessions, entails critical discussion of a number of films from a range of theoretical approaches and within diverse film historical contexts. Models of cinema analysis considered include formalist, auteurist, feminist, genre studies, cultural studies, and post-colonialist. The third goal, preparing to teach film systematically, becomes a focus in the latter part of the course, as students observe on-going film classes, design a course syllabus, learn to generate instructional materials, and give teaching presentations. Seminar ?graduates? will have opportunity to apply the newly acquired skills under faculty guidance through assignment to teaching a ?stand-alone? section of Intro to Film in Spring 2013. Interested graduate students are encouraged to see Ramona Curry with any questions or to get tips about films and readings to be covered, in case anyone wishes to get a headstart in acquiring background over the summer. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.