In the second year, the inaugural cohort of the CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellows will be teaching the courses listed below at LaGuardia Community College.
ELA201: Latin American Literature II
This course deals with an introduction to Latin American literature and its relationship to the dynamics of social change. The course also traces the influence of European, North American, African and pre-Columbian elements on Latin American literacy movements. Topics include pre-Columbian literatures, colonization and exploration, the wars of independence and abolition. This class is entirely taught in Spanish.
Nuestra Tierra
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Professor Luis Henao Uribe
Textualidades
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Professor Rojo Robles Mejías
ENG102 Composition II: Writing Through Literature
This course extends and intensifies the work of Composition I, requiring students to write critically and analytically about culturally-diverse works of literature. Students are introduced to poetry, drama, and fiction, employing close-reading techniques and other methods of literary criticism. Writing assignments follow a variety of academic formats, including the critical research essay, using research methods and documentation procedures.
Write Now
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Professor Jenn Polish
HUP102: Critical Thinking
The goal of this course is to help students become thoughtful and effective critical thinkers, applying the intellectual abilities and specialized reasoning skills to themselves and their society. Students will also learn to identify, evaluate, and solve problems on an individual and societal scale. They will gain self-awareness and a deeper knowledge of the ways in which they interact, change, and are changed by society in order to analyze their role as responsible citizens in a globalized world.
Professor Anton Kociolek
SSH151: Women and Gender in US History
This course is a survey of women’s history in the United States. It also examines the changing meanings of gender in American history. In other words, the course will explore women’s experiences at the same time that it will examine how ideas about femininity, masculinity, families, sexuality, sex, and other pertinent categories of identification have changed over time.
Women and Gender in U.S. History
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Professor Emily Brooks
SSN280: Black Urban Psychology
This course introduces students to psychological theories and issues relating to blacks in America. Emphasizing the shift from rural to urban environments, it examines the impact of slavery and racism on blacks. With special reference to New York City, the course investigates the relationship between black personality and family, education, work, culture and mental health. There will be field trips to Harlem and to a community mental health center.
Professor Deshonay Dozier
The CUNY Humanities Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow is also teaching a course at LaGuardia Community College in the Fall 2017.
Writing the Research Paper
Students write coherent essays in varied academic formats, by using appropriate library research and writing a staged, formal essay. Students learn how to choose an appropriate academic research topic, pose research questions, outline, organize and integrate source material into essays without plagiarizing. Students find and evaluate both print and online sources and practice note-taking, summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting using in text citations and learn to create a Works Cited page.
Writing the Research Paper
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Professor Kitana Ananda
Meanwhile, the second cohort of Graduate Teaching Fellows will be training with master faculty at LaGuardia Community College in the following courses.
ELL101 Introduction to Language
Professor Leigh Garrison-Fletcher
An introduction to the nature, structure and history of language, this course surveys the scientific study of language and answers the question of what it means to “know” a language. Areas covered include phonology, word structure, sentence structure, how language is acquired, how languages change through time, language in society and writing systems.
ENG102 Composition II: Writing Through Literature
Professor Jacqueline Jones
This course extends and intensifies the work of Composition I, requiring students to write critically and analytically about culturally-diverse works of literature. Students are introduced to poetry, drama, and fiction, employing close-reading techniques and other methods of literary criticism. Writing assignments follow a variety of academic formats, including the critical research essay, using research methods and documentation procedures.
HUA101 Introduction to Art
Professor Jessica Boehman
This course is designed to develop the students’ ability “to see,” while it examines the fundamental nature, meaning, and human- istic value of art. Attention will be given to an examination of the creative process and to the role of the spectator as an active participant in the understanding of art. Relevant readings will be discussed in relation to specific works of art. The function of basic compositional elements will be examined. Museum visits are required.
HUC101 Fundamentals of Speech Communication
Professor Joni Schwartz
This is a survey course that covers a broad understanding of the field of Communication Studies. Students will learn basic principles of communication: listening, verbal/nonverbal and group dynamics in interpersonal, group, public, and intercultural contexts. The First Year Seminar component of this course will help students transition to campus culture, develop a better understanding of learning processes and acquire the skills essential to the study and practice in a professional capacity.
HUP102: Critical Thinking
Professor Cheri Carr
The goal of this course is to help students become thoughtful and effective critical thinkers, applying the intellectual abilities and specialized reasoning skills to themselves and their society. Students will also learn to identify, evaluate, and solve problems on an individual and societal scale. They will gain self-awareness and a deeper knowledge of the ways in which they interact, change, and are changed by society in order to analyze their role as responsible citizens in a globalized world.
