Here are links to the new courses we're offering this semester:
Modern Drama
Literary Trials
Politics and World Film
Utopian Visions
Small Books -- Big Histories
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Saturday, September 15, 2007
REDESIGNING OUR PROGRAM
A CLEA site-visit in Fall '04 has led to a sweep of changes in Peabody's Humanities program. This year these changes are all falling into place.
Postings here should allow you to explore our Humanities Seminar and to understand something of our new Digital Portfolio project. We hope that our experiments prod some reactions--that can help us improve on what we're doing, and can help others to venture in new directions.
THE HUMANITIES SEMINAR
This Fall we are offering a second run of our team-taught, one-semester Humanities Seminar. The course is designed for all new Peabody undergraduates. About 65 students are enrolled.
This is how it was recently portrayed to the Johns Hopkins community. This year's seminar is entitled "Portrait of the Artist."
Its design is highly innovative- unique in some ways. The class meets in two 2.5 hour blocks (Tuesday and Thursday mornings). Five teachers, those of us who designed the course, are available during these times, and we have the flexibility to meet with all 65 students in one large lecture hall for presentations (or films, etc.), or to meet with our individual Seminar sections of around 14 students. Many days we spend part of the 2.5 hours in full session, and part in our seminars.
Postings below address some of the particulars. But this link allows you to explore . . . peeking in on links we've prepared for our students.
If you are interested in the course schedule, here it is, posted as a google document (for collaborative revision prior to the semester). The formatting here isn't all that clear--it's set up in three columns to help students see when we meet and where we meet, what we're doing on each day, and what assignments are due (and when). The hard-copy handout actually IS clear!!
The seminar is designed hand-in-hand with our new Digital Portfolio requirement. Explanation of this is forthcoming . . .
This is how it was recently portrayed to the Johns Hopkins community. This year's seminar is entitled "Portrait of the Artist."
Its design is highly innovative- unique in some ways. The class meets in two 2.5 hour blocks (Tuesday and Thursday mornings). Five teachers, those of us who designed the course, are available during these times, and we have the flexibility to meet with all 65 students in one large lecture hall for presentations (or films, etc.), or to meet with our individual Seminar sections of around 14 students. Many days we spend part of the 2.5 hours in full session, and part in our seminars.
Postings below address some of the particulars. But this link allows you to explore . . . peeking in on links we've prepared for our students.
If you are interested in the course schedule, here it is, posted as a google document (for collaborative revision prior to the semester). The formatting here isn't all that clear--it's set up in three columns to help students see when we meet and where we meet, what we're doing on each day, and what assignments are due (and when). The hard-copy handout actually IS clear!!
The seminar is designed hand-in-hand with our new Digital Portfolio requirement. Explanation of this is forthcoming . . .
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