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From a Guest Editorial in the Duluth News-Tribune,
A bookworm’s case for new education strategy:
Mark Twain changed my life. I was an 18-year-old clerk at a grocery store with no map for my future when my college freshman composition teacher distributed a list from which to choose a novel for the end-of-the-year term paper.
Sunday, February, 17, 2008 - Duluth News Tribune - Opinion
- A random sampling of course syllabi nationwide, including at the University of Minnesota Duluth, revealed reading assignments consisting of essays, letters, short stories, poems and book excerpts — but seldom many whole books....
And textbook companies are more than happy to accommodate such surveys, because they can re-shuffle the collections every three years into new and expensive anthologies that students must purchase, whereas they would earn nothing from students purchasing used novels.
But instead of sweeping surveys, core courses should be based on five to seven representative books. In American Literature II, for example, teaching books like Twain’s “Innocents Abroad” and Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter,” among others, would make for more meaningful experiences.
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Features of the Day
- identify the topic, or short list of topics (1-3), that you have selected (or are thinking about) along with a one- or two- sentence statement of what you expect/hope to do with your term paper and class presentation topic
- e-mail that to troufs@d.umn.edu
- or drop it in your WebDrop folder at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
- be sure to include the name of the class in the e-mail
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The Term Paper topic idea(s) due by Friday evening, 26 February 2010, 11:59 p.m. CDT, to WebDrop
(If you have already done this you do not need to repeat it, but do send in questions you may have about your topic)
- class presentations start after Exam II, Week 12 Day 23
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Notes
- Tuesday 17 February 2009: Finished Europe as an Ethnographic "Culture Area" and Other
Units of Analysis (slides) and "Anthropology in Europe, or
Anthropology of Europe?" (slides)
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