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Hi there! Welcome to my class-related home page. The courses I am (tentatively) teaching for the Spring 2012 Semester are the following:
- Public Speaking Workshop I (영어발표연습 1): No matter what your level of spoken English, this course will help you master the skills necessary to be a powerful, interesting, and convincing public speaker. The focus is on developing skills, one by one, which each contribute to professional-quality, interesting, and effective speech-making.
- Creative Writing I: The Creative Writing I course is designed to help you develop your writing skills by giving you the freedom to work on whatever kind of creative writing you want: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or screenplay (ie. “scenario”) writing. The courses consists of weekly meetings involving discussion of student work in a “critique circle” format, along with writing exercises designed to help you develop specific writing skills. If you are interested in the Creative Writing course, be sure to sign up for this class: if too few people sign up this time, the course will be cancelled permanently.
- Understanding Anglophone Pop Culture: In this course, which will be heavily revised from past versions of the course, you will develop a broad familiarity with popular culture in the English-speaking world, using a specifically Canadian perspective to examine pop culture in the two main powerhouses of the Anglophone world: Britain and the United States of America. After examining reasons to study popular culture in these two societies, we will move on to specific “genres” of popular culture, including film, music, language, fashion, comics, sports and exercise, “genre” literature, drinking culture, and (maybe) even food and drink more generally.
- Listening & Speaking I: This course is a fundamental course in conversation, with a focus on students performing communicative acts in English in a variety of contexts. Regardless of their level of English, students will be required to constantly participate in discussions in class, will perform exercises in conversation outside of class, and will also participate in creative projects. We will be discussing challenging topics and issues in class, and sometimes readings or viewing of media will be assigned in order to help you have something to talk about (and the vocabulary to talk about it). The focus is on participation and on speaking in class, which is reflected directly in the course grading system.
For more information on any of these classes, please contact me, or see the sidebar to the right for links to previous versions of some of these courses and helpful advice for all students!