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The Graduate Program in English: A "Tastings" Menu 11/14/17 (For PDS Schools Only)

Target Audience: Teachers and Administrators Description:

1)    Teaching a Culturally Diverse Text: Asian American Literature

This workshop will examine the challenges the rewards of teaching multi-cultural texts in general, and outline strategies and tips for teaching Asian American literary texts in particular through an interactive reading exercises. It will deconstruct some popular terms, provide a brief overview of social and historical contexts, and emphasize some key points about contemporary Asian American literature, popular visual culture, and new reading and teaching.Students will be given a tool kit of resources-annotated bibliography, online resources, blogs and websites for future reference.

2)     Multi-genre Workshop (poetry, fiction, memoir) on the use of the second person point of view In

creative writing

Stories such as Lorrie Moore's "How to Be an Other Woman" and Junot Diaz's "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl or Halfie" popularized the use of the second person ("you') in literary fiction. In this workshop, through brief readings and practical exercises, we will explore creative ways to employ the 2nd person point of view in fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction.

3)     Responding to Digital Composing

In this workshop, we'll think and talk about how digital composing and publishing complicates and challenges existing ideas about composing processes, classroom constraints, writing assessment, and multi-modal rhetorics. Prof. Molloy will share two draft movie essays that were composed by first-year students in our joint first-year-writing and graduate-writing-pedagogy  (ENGL 1100/5990) course. We'll brainstorm possible feedback choices that will help students to revise/compose their final movies.

Presenters:Dr. Raje Kaur, Or. John Parras and Dr.Sean Molloy

For information or questions regarding PDS, contact Maryellen Tanis at 973-720-3529 or tanism@wpunj.edu

Instructor : Dr. Raje Kaur, Or. John Parras and Dr.Sean Molloy
Dates : 11/14/17
Days : Tues
From : 4:00pm - 7:00 PM
Fee : $ 50.00
Course Number : E113B

Class is unavailable at this time please call 973-720-2354 for more information or other course options

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