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Instructor: Jaimie Crawford *Background picture from NCTE |
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TRIMESTER ONE: CURRENT ISSUES IN ADOLESCENCE Course Objective : Improve reading and writing skills by discussing, contemplating, and expressing personal thoughts on *current issues. Current Issues: In correlation with the psychology/literature section of this course during 2nd trimeseter, the current issues will be of psychological and sociological nature. These issues should be high interest level and of particular relevance to your generation and age group. The issues (divorce, the media, substance abuse, prejudice, etc..) will be voted on in class and presented by a panel of two to three students. Course Objective : Improve reading and writing skills by discussing, contemplating, and expressing personal thoughts on the lives and works of great authors (Pulitzer, Nobel Prize winners, etc...) Groups of four students will choose one author per group--first come, first serve. Groups will present a 45 minute discussion of one author/novel/film and present an autobiographical report comparing the author's life to the main character(s)' life in the novel. A typed, double-spaced, (minimum 5, maximum 8 page) MLA style documented paper analyzing rhetorical strategies of the novel is required. TRIMESTER THREE: PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE Course Objective: 1) To give students an overview of abnormal psychology, lifespan development, and family dynamics using the theories of Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Adler, and other cognitive and psychosocial theorists; 2) To teach students to utilize these theories in order to gain insight into literary characters in childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and later years. Two case studies (2-5 typed pages) and a journal which will be collected twice during the trimester will be required from each student. Approximately three oral presentations of pyschological content will also be assigned to each student during the trimester. |
