I have been working on creating this syllabus for days, but I have been thinking about it for years and especially during the last semester, in workshops and seminars as a Humanities Alliance graduate fellow. This was the first semester I was not teaching since I first became a teacher ten years ago. I didn’t […]
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On Designing a Research-Based Writing Course
Author’s Note: This is the first part in a three-part series on designing a research-based writing course that culminates in a research paper assignment. In a recent post for this blog, I began to reflect on my experience of teaching “Writing the Research Paper,” a general education humanities course open to students who have taken at […]
Three Ways To Begin a Student-Centered Class
Here are three links that might be useful to those preparing a syllabus, now and in the future. The first is a piece I wrote for Inside Higher Ed on a student-centered way of having everyone contribute to meaningful, inspiring learning outcomes to substitute for or supplement the ones students often feel are mechanical. It […]