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ED*E299*19
Exploring Teaching in Secondary School
Shelia Ingram
Prerequisites:
None
Open To:
First-years, Sophomores, Juniors
Grading System: Letter
Max. Enrollment: 15
Meeting Times:
M Tu W F 7:30am-3:15pm
Exploring Teaching is a field-based Exploration Term project that requires
observation in classrooms at the middle and secondary levels. e field
experience for this project will take place in two educational environments
in order to give students a varied view of classrooms. e field placement
time is approximately 35 hours per week. In addition, there will on-campus
seminars focusing on current issues in education. Evaluation will be based on
attendance, observational reflections, project readings, and participation in
on-campus seminar.
ED *E499*20
Service Learning in Uganda
Amelia Spencer and Kristin Harper
Prerequisites:
None
Open To:
Seniors
Grading System: Letter
Max. Enrollment: 12
Meeting Times:
On-campus meetings Jan 4-6, Travel Jan 7-29
Project participants will travel to Mukono, Uganda, to work with the
primary purpose of teaching English at the Buiga Sunrise School. Students
will experience cultural immersion through service. Participants will also
experience the culture and natural resources of Uganda, visiting Murchison
Falls National Park and the source of the Nile River. Participation in this project
is a major commitment by the student—both prior to and during Exploration
Term—requiring self-motivation and self-discipline. Requirements include fall
preparation meetings, lesson planning, active participation on site in January
and in discussions during class meetings, reading assigned literature, a
reflective journal, and a final reflective essay. Evaluation will be based on the
quality of the student’s work on each of the above requirements.
Note: Participants will be selected through an application process.
Estimated Student Fees: $5000
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EH*E299*21
Classical and Renaissance Italy: e Major Cities and the Places in Between
Michael McInturff and Amy Cottrill
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
Open To:
All Students
Grading System: S/U
Max. Enrollment: 20
Meeting Times:
On-campus dates Jan 3-4, Travel dates Jan 5-24
See description under Classics.
EH*E299*22
Composing a Video Essay
Lucas Johnson
Prerequisites:
None
Open To:
All Students
Grading System: S/U
Max. Enrollment: 14
Meeting Times:
MW F 10:00am-12:00pm
Have you ever wanted to create videos for your own YouTube channel?
Do you want to become the next Tyler Oakley, Hank & John Greene, John
Bresland, or Kid President? In this E-Term experience, you will learn how to
design, prepare, and compose your own video essay. Students will begin by
becoming acquainted with the essay as genre through reading several essays
and a short writing assignment. en we familiarize ourselves with that
emergent form known as the video essay by watching a diverse selection
of popular (and un-popular) video essays. Next students will go about the
business of imagining, researching, and designing their own video essay,
which will include photographs, music, sound effects, voice recording,
motion graphics, animations, recorded interviews, etc. Finally, students
will bring all this work together as a complete, 5-8-minute video essay of
their own. e class will conclude with a viewing party, and all essays will
become a permanent part of the Birmingham-Southern Video Essay YouTube
channel. Students will gain knowledge of video design and sound editing,
along with adding to their knowledge about the composing process and the
art of persuasion (rhetoric). Whether students are already making their own
video essays, or whether students have no prior knowledge, this E-Term
experience is for you!
EH*E299*23
A Month of Sundays: Intensive Research in Literature
David Ulrich
Prerequisites:
Serious Interest in Research, Instructor Consent
Open To:
Juniors, Seniors
Grading System: Letter
Max. Enrollment: 5
Meeting Times:
Tu 10:00am-2:00pm
In consultation with the instructor, the student will research a specific issue
in literature. e research perspectives will be a mixture of close readings
of texts and cultural studies. For example, the student will read a selection
of Kate Chopin’s fiction and her most important biographies. In conjunction
with this work, the student will find and analyze 50 or more photographs of
the interior of passenger trains and train stations from 1890-1900 in order
to analyze howmany women travelled alone during this period. e topics
will be interesting, but will be assigned by the instructor, in consultation
with the student. e class will meet as a group on assigned days as well as
individual conferences. e student will write a 15-page paper due near the
end of the term. Evaluation will be based on attendance (10%), participation
and esprit de corps (20%), quality of research completed (20%), and the
research paper itself (50%). e entire Exploration Term project—class time,
consultations, time-intensive (individualized) research, the writing and
revision of research paper, and more—will meet or exceed the 150-hour
requirement. No incompletes are allowed.
Estimated Student Fees: $100
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