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Hi there! Welcome to my class-related home page. The courses I am teaching for the Spring 2010 Semester are the following:
- Understanding American Popular Culture: This course is designed to familiarize you with aspects of American popular culture, including history, current trends, important cultural differences, and the development of a critical vocabulary for the discussion of American popular culture.
- Creative Writing Workshop: This course will focus on writing skills pertinent to creative writing — students writing original work in a creative vein such as poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and so on. Regular short writing exercises, readings, and weekly critique sessions will supplement personal feedback and discussion of techniques for creative writing. The idea is to develop your English writing skills while exercising your creativity.
- Journalistic Writing 1: This course will involve participating in project meetings, writing magazine-styled articles for actual publication, peer editing, and the mastery of various research techniques, including interviewing. A crash course in magazine layout may be offered, though students will not be responsible for layout of print editions of the magazine. The best student work will be published both in a print magazine (The Catholic University Forum, aka The CUF) and online, and a cash prize will be offered the best article in each issue of the Catholic University Forum. (”Best” as in, the article voted best by other professors at CUK.) Yes, that’s right, a cash prize. How often is that offered in your courses? Enrollment will be limited, so if you’re interested, sign up as soon as possible!
- Debate/Discussion: This course will focus on the discussion and debate of current-events issues in English. Students will learn about logic, argumentation, develop argumentative tactics and debating skills, and get practice at public speaking.
For more information on any of these classes, please contact me, or see the sidebar to the right for links to previous versions of some of these courses and helpful advice for all students!