Graduate Office - Literature and Criticism Course Offerings By Semester

SUMMER 2008 PRESESSION (May 19-May 23)

ENGL 781/881 Research Skills: Research and the Hyperlinking of Knowledge

Dr. Chris Orchard

M-F 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

This course satisfies three credits of the Research Skills requirement.

 This is a one-week intensive workshop designed for current high school and college teachers as well as other graduate students. Using the concepts of connectivity and the hyper-linking of knowledge found in the works of the popular creative innovator and intellect James Burke, students will learn and apply methods of research that will create pathways of information across different literary periods. Such will require students to encounter, record and analyze a multiplicity of different sources—both primary and secondary—in databases and archival material. Once students have understood and applied these pathways in different cultural periods and in different kinds of documents, they will conclude with a focus on a particular literary period, author or cultural concept of their choice, constructing a bibliography that reflects their findings and using methods of the course. There will be a variety of activities every day and the class will take advantage of hands-on research using archival sources at the library as well as a variety of extensive academic databases that include articles, pamphlets, and newspapers.

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