EDCI 200 Z3 (CRN: 60393)

Race, Class, Gender and Achievement

What motivates students to learn? How do we help an increasingly diverse population of students to achieve at school? Research has pointed to school performance often being more greatly affected by motivational factors than intellectual ability. This course will examine how issues of race, class, gender and ethnicity impact students’ lives, learning and engagement. Also are students being shortchanged due to their race/ethnicity, class or gender? We will also examine how our own beliefs and biases might affect our teaching and expectations of our students. Violence and bullying in schools will also be explored. Through readings, exercises and discussions each participant will design a final project which will be immediately useful for their classroom or environment in which they work each day.

Instructor: Ann Sheperdson

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

Meeting time is 8:30am to 1:30pm

Class location is Esmp.
Semester Dates: July 6, 2009 to July 23, 2009

 

ENGS 057 OL1 (CRN: 60275)
D1: Race and Ethnicity in Literary Studies: Intro    THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE 

Introductory courses addressing the representation and construction of "race" in literature and/or the contributions of ethnically diverse writers to the American culture. Focus and readings vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit.

Instructor: Sarah Turner
Semester Dates: May 18, 20009 to June 12, 2009.

 

ENGS 057 OL2 (CRN: 60739)

D1:Race and Ethnicity in Literary Studies: Intro   THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE

Introductory courses addressing the representation and construction of "race" in literature and/or the contributions of ethnically diverse writers to the American culture. Focus and readings vary by instructor.

Instructor: Sean Aaron Witters

Semester Dates: June 15, 2009 to July 17, 2009

 

ENGS 057 Z1 (CRN: 60567)

D1:Race and Ethnicity in Literary Studies: Intro

Introductory courses addressing the representation and construction of "race" in literature and/or the contributions of ethnically diverse writers to the American culture. Focus and readings vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit.

Instructor: Isabella Jeso

Location and Class Time:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

9:00am to 11:30am

L/L A Room A102

Semester Dates: May 18, 2009 to June 12, 2009

 

ENGS 095 Z1 (CRN: 60685)

Native American Literature

Fiction, myth, poetry, personal narrative, even film--contemporary American Indian writing takes many forms but they all provide windows into the lives and dreams of America's forgotten minority. Among the themes explored are life on the rez, creation myths and vision quests, dealing with the white world, and reclaiming the past.

Instructor:  Arthur William Biddle

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

9:00am to 11:30am

Lafayette  Room L111

Semester Dates: May 18, 2009 to June 12, 2009

ENGS 111 Z1 (CRN: 60138)

Reading Race, Seeing Race

Reading Race, Seeing Race: How do we narrate and visualize race? How do narrative and visual depictions alter across various racial groups? This course will examine how twentieth century literature and popular culture construct certain "racial knowledges" in the formation of American identity.

Instructor: Jinny Huh

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

12:30pm to 3:30pm

Lafaye Room L200

Semester Dates: May 18, 2009 to June 12, 2009

 

ENGS 330 Z1 (CRN: 60074)

Harlem Renaissance and Negritude

The Harlem Renaissance Movement is believed to have played a great role in the emergence of the African and West Indian Negritude Movement in Paris in the early 1930s. This course explores points of connection and disconnection between these two most prominent 20th-century Black cultural movements and their relevance to contemporary pan-African literary production. Authors include Claude Mckay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Bennett, Helene Johnson, Arna Bontemps, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Leon Dam
Instructor: Lokangaka Losambe

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

5:00pm to 8:30pm

Class location is Omanex Room A304

Semester Dates: May 18, 2009 to June 12, 2009

 

MU 010 OL1 (CRN: 60812)

Blues and Related Traditions   THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE

Traces the development of blues from African origins to modern blues, its rural and urban social contexts, and relation to African-American history and culture.

Instructor: Clyde Stats

Semester Dates: June 22, 2009 to July 31, 2009

 

REL 095 OL1 (CRN: 60179)

Intro to American Indian Religions   THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE

The goal of this course will be to introduce students to the variety of cultures, spiritual systems, and experiences of American Indians throughout the United States, both in the historical and the contemporary. We will study exactly what the term "Religion" means when applied to traditional American Indian systems of belief, and use this information to study important historical events specifically related to spiritual issues, how different groups engage in ceremonial activities, the connection between spirituality and contemporary environmentalism and activism in native communities, and some important changes and challenges to native spirituality today. The goal is to give students a broad introduction to American Indian religious systems and their larger functions in communities, both past and present.

Instructor: Kenneth Mello

For meeting day(s): None specified

Semester Dates: May 18, 2009 to June 12, 2009