Being comprehensive may preclude digging in to
everyone deeply, but shouldn't have to preclude
digging into someone deeply.
Dig?
Hal
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are sane beyond recall."
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On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> Doug, it is always, as you say, a choice between trying to be
> comprehensive
> & giving students a chance to dig in deeply. In my case the decision
> was
> made based largely on the sort of students I have at Clarkson. Even
> though
> this is an upper-division (jr / sr) course, it has both majors and
> non-major
> in it. What 20th century lit they've read has been mostly prose. So my
> choice was to try to sketch in the landscape for them, establish the
> landmarks, so that they would be prepared, if they wish, to explore
> further
> & spend more time in one place. It is, consequently, a fairly
> standard, even
> conservative, syllabus.
>
> jd
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 11:40 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Intriguing posts, Joe. I was interested in your course outline, as
>> someone who over the years came to want fewer poets & more poems by
>> those I chose to present (then sent students off to read others for
>> their papers). I also had the class presentations on a particularly
>> famous volume by one of the poets being taken up in the class. That
>> often proved interesting (always, as usual, depending on how 'into
>> it'
>> the presenters got).
>>
>> It's a hard choice, either way can work. In my CanLit classes near
>> the
>> end, I only included a couple of books of poetry, along with the
>> novels, & the collection of Alice Munro's short stories.
>>
>> Let us know how that poetry ploy works with the 15 year olds, eh.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 18-Jan-08, at 9:24 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>>
>>> - Winter birds
>>>
>>>
>>> - Teaching poetry to fifteen year olds
>>>
>>>
>>> - Tillie Olsen film (via A Practical Policy)
>>>
>>>
>>> - Blogging the Bach suites for unaccompanied cello & trying to
>>> catch
>>> up with Jonathan Mayhew
>>>
>>>
>>> - Etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://sharpsand.net
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joseph Duemer
>>> Professor of Humanities
>>> Clarkson University
>>> [sharpsand.net]
>>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/
>> >
>>
>> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>
>> Nothing I'd read
>> prepared me for a body this unfair.
>>
>> John Newlove
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
