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"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 excitin...

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Weitere Verfasser: Dujardin, Gwynn (HerausgeberIn), Lang, James M. (HerausgeberIn), Staunton, John A., 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018.
Ausgabe:First edition.
Schriftenreihe:Teaching and learning in higher education (West Virginia University Press)
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781946684110
1946684112
9781946684103
1946684104