I'll be a real teacher!
Dec. 5th, 2006 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerJust got official notice that my course proposal for Collins, the honors dorm here on campus, has been accepted. Next fall I'll be teaching "Fairy Tales in the Modern World," a class on contemporary retellings of folktales. It's mostly literature-based, but I'm slipping in what I can about movies, role-playing games, and the like.
I'm both very excited and a little nervous. I've got four years of teaching experience under my belt, but it's all as an assistant to a professor, so this will be my first time running my own course. The cool thing is, enrollment is limited to 20, so it will also be my first chance to really get to know my students personally, give detailed feedback on papers, etc, rather than plowing through sixty student assignments and teaching three sections. Since a lot of the students are going to be freshman and sophomores, this means I have a shot at actually influencing how they approach their college education. (Yeah, yeah, delusions of grandeur, I know. But I have hopes.)
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:17 pm (UTC)And congrats, if I am here in fall I'll try to take it.
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:29 pm (UTC)I assume the Colors of Fantasy series (Snow White, Blood Red etc.) is already under consideration.
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:57 pm (UTC)I'd totally take that class. :>
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Date: 2006-12-05 09:00 pm (UTC)How do you narrow the choices for materials?
Date: 2006-12-05 11:43 pm (UTC)The class sounds fascinating, too. There should be plenty of lit-based options. Some genre-based ones, too, like "Stardust" and "The Book of Lost Things."
That's got to be one fun reading list. ;)
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Date: 2006-12-07 05:18 am (UTC)Stardust will probably be the one novel-length text they read, unless it gets beaten out by The Darkangel, by Meredith Ann Pierce.
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