Literacy and Literature
Rm. 329, Senate House, London
22nd March 2002
10:30am-4pm
Literacy is the basic requirement for students of English language,
literature and creative writing and yet lecturers identify literacy as one
of their key concerns. This event will introduce delegates to strategies
for
fostering students' basic and academic literacy. Delegates will be
addressed
by Dr Colleen McKenna who is a lecturer in Academic Literacies in the
Department of Education and Professional Development at University College,
London. Dr McKenna, whose doctorate was concerned with Seamus Heaney's
poetry has experience of teaching in English departments, and she will
explore the issues involved in developing academic literacy. The symposium
will also include presentations from some of the literacy-based, projects,
funded by the English Subject Centre, which are currently running in
English
departments. We will discuss embedded and remedial approaches to the
teaching of literacy, dyslexia and IT resources among other issues.
For information, please contact Dr Siobhán Holland:
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4432218. Further information will be posted to delegates in the weeks
before the symposium.
Assessment:
Tradition, Innovation, Explanation
University of Exeter
20th April 2002
This symposium will focus on issues which might reasonably be taken into
account when a department undertakes a review of its overall assessment
strategy. It will give delegates the opportunity to reflect on what
constitutes a balanced diet of assessment in an undergraduate degree
programme in English and we will reflect on the following questions work in
order to identify trends in assessment practice in undergraduate English
Studies: to what extent are the traditional forms of the essay and the exam
still dominant in English Studies? What pressures operate to encourage
tradition and innovation in terms of assessment, within and from outside
the
subject community and how diverse is the assessment diet for the
undergraduate who studies English? In what terms do we justify our
assessment choices and how does the need to explain our choices, and verify
marks, affect innovation? How does the assessment diet relate to the
criteria for 'graduateness' developed in the benchmarking statement and
debates about key skills?
If you need further information about this event, or if you would like to
suggest further topics for discussion, or submit materials for discussion
at
the symposium, please contact Dr Siobhán Holland at the English Subject
Centre, Royal Holloway, Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX, (01784) 443218,
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Dr Siobhán Holland [log in to unmask]
English Subject Centre tel. 01784 443218
Royal Holloway fax 01784 470684
University of London mobile 07951 430873
Egham http://www.rhul.ac.uk/ltsn/english
Egham Hill
TW20 OEX
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