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University of Toronto

Graduate Department of English

ENG9900H: Professing Literature

Office: Rm. 2103, 7 King's College Circle, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3K1

Tel.: 978-3191 (St. George Campus); 265-4660 (home)

Email: m.cuddy.keane@utoronto.ca

Course Time: Wednesday 4-6 (approximately every second week, September-April, 2000-2001)

Location: Room 2000, 7 King's College Circle

Course Description

This course, required of and limited to Year II doctoral students in English at the University of Toronto, will address topics in the teaching of English literature at the university level. The course is designed to provide the foundations for an informed, self-reflexive pedagogy and to help students develop effective methods for teaching literatures written in English to undergraduates. Guest faculty will discuss critical problems and issues specific to the teaching of literature over a range of historical periods and geographical areas. Curricular-related topics may include: the development of English as a discipline; linkages with the teaching of English at the secondary school and community college levels; potential directions for the future. Topics in applied pedagogy will balance theoretical discussion. Readings will include current pedagogical literature relating to English studies. Credit/non-credit.

"A classroom becomes a community around a text; you draw on everyone's experiences and readings--their whole humanity--as you focus on the work you've agreed to have in common." (Jenifer Sutherland, "Professing Literature," 1999-2000)

Course Materials: (2000-2001)

Course Schedule
Assignments and Goals
Course Bibliography
Course Bibliography--Annotated Version (in progress)

Course Materials: (Archives, 1999-2000)

Course Schedule
Assignments and Goals

Internet Resources:

Resources for Teaching, at the University of Toronto:

The T.A. Training Programme at the University of Toronto (a resource center with seminars, email help, and links to on-line teaching advice)

THE500H Teaching in Higher Education (graduate seminar offered by Woodsworth College, University of Toronto)

Writing Resources at the University of Toronto (guides, tips, advise on academic writing)

General Resources for Teaching:

Links to Web Sites on Teaching Dossiers/Portfolios
Links to University Home Pages (World-wide) ( a good resource for researching curricular development or for checking the programme and course offerings of a university to which you are submitting a job application)

Resources for Teaching English Literature:

The Voice of the Shuttle (English Literature Home Page)
The Voice of the Shuttle (Courses, Syllabi, and Teaching)
LitLinks (resources for teachers and students)
History of English Studies Page (page created by Rita Raley, U. California Santa Barbara, while a graduate student at UCSB)

Links to Interesting Web Sites by Individual Instructors
Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation--Teaching the Humanities in a Restructured World ("Palinurus will in the future grow into a general-purpose platform for making both academics and the public aware of what is at stake in the adaptation of higher education to the global 'new economy.'")

Pedagogy Sites for Teachers of English/Language Arts. An annotated bibliography, primarily directed towards K-12 teachers, but with some pertinent information for the university level. Links include the NCTE, collaboration in the classroom, and help for teachers with ESL students. [RN, Oct. 2000]

Relevant Organizations:

ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)
National Council of Teachers of English ("dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education; note that one of its journals, College English, is available on-line through the U of T Library)

Preparing Future Faculty ("a national network of academic leaders reshaping graduate education to include preparation for the full range of faculty roles subsumed by the terms teaching, research, and service"; PFF runs a Listserv)

Tomorrow's Professor and its (Listserv Archives) (a Listserv sponsored by the Stanford University Learning Laboratory)