Graduate Office - Literature and Criticism Course Offerings By Semester

Course schedules are subject to change.  Please see Cathy Renwick for more information.

SUMMER 2005 PRE-SESSION (May 23-May 27)

ENGL 681 Research Skills (all-day workshop)

M-F   8:00-4:30

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This is a one-week intensive, hands-on workshop in current and traditional research methods designed for high school and college teachers as well as graduate students on both the doctoral and master’s levels. The course has a dual focus—on research methods for teaching and curriculum development on both the secondary and the postsecondary levels; and on research methods for scholarship with conferencing, publishing, and master’s thesis and dissertation writing. We will review some basic issues such as the nature of primary and secondary sources and the particular literacies demanded of researchers to locate these sources, as well as to analyze, cite, quote, and use them. Class sessions will transpire in a number of venues (not limited to the classroom) including IUP computer labs and technologically equipped classrooms as well as a rare book and archival collection. (There is likely to be one field trip at the end of the session.) A course packet will be prepared and distributed; there are no texts assigned currently.  There will not be a research paper, but students will have to perform hands-on research exercises that involve writing as much as practice of the specific research skills being discussed. Because of the intensive schedule activities will vary during the day between discussion, mini-lecture, demonstration, and individual and collaborative practice. This variety of activities should keep the pace lively and make sure the multiple facets of research skills as they pertain to teaching and scholarship are adequately covered.

This course satisfies three credits of the Research Skills requirement.

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