Teaching the Literature Survey Course [electronic resource] : New Strategies for College Faculty / Gwynn Dujardin, James M. Lang, and John A. Staunton [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staunton, John A., 1969- editor.

Lang, James M., editor.

Dujardin, Gwynn, editor.

Series:

Teaching and learning in higher education (West Virginia University Press)

Teaching and learning in higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining--even while re-imagining and re-inventing--the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through essays both practical and theoretical, the collection presents survey teachers with an exciting range of new strategies for energizing their teaching and engaging their students in this vital encounter with our evolving literary traditions. From mapping early English literature to a team-based approach to the American survey, and from multimedia galleries to a "blank syllabus," contributors propose alternatives to the traditional emphasis on lectures and breadth of coverage. The volume is at once a set of practical suggestions for working teachers (including sample documents like worksheets and syllabi) and a provocative engagement with the question of what introductory courses can and should be.

Contents:

Introduction / James M. Lang

Mapping the literature survey : locating London in British literature I / Kevin Bourque

Creative imitation : the survey as an occasion for emulating style / Scott L. Newstok

Bingo pedagogy : team-based learning and the literature survey / Desire Henderson

Extended engagement : in praise of breadth / Aaron Rosenfeld

"Reacting to the past" in the survey course : teaching the stages of power : Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592 game / Joan Varnum Ferretti

The blank survey syllabus / Chris Walsh

Errant pedagogy in the early modern classroom, or prodigious misreadings in and of the Renaissance / Melissa J. Jones

Digital tools, new media survey, and the literature survey / Jennifer Page

Thematic organization and the first-year literature survey / Kristin Lucas and Sarah Fiona Winters

Fear and learning in the historical survey course / Gwynn Dujardin

The survey as pedagogical training and academic job credential / Tim Rosendale

Revisioning the American literature survey for teachers and other wide-awake humans / John A. Staunton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-946684-10-4

1-946684-11-2

OCLC:

1019665262