The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinion, but to kindle minds. -- Frederick W. Robertson
The following course descriptions are available. Please check the Class Schedule or contact the program for course availability for each semester:
A&HE 4050 Literature and Teaching
An examination of multiple approaches to reading traditional and contemporary texts using theory, criticism, and textual practices. Special fee required.
Instructor: Pat Zumhagen
A&HE 4051 Critical Approaches to Literature
Literary selections are examined through various critical frameworks emphasizing the way texts are constructed and how readers negotiate meaning with texts. Special fee required.
Instructor: Sheridan Blau
A&HE 4052 Adolescents and literature
Discussions focus on issues of adolescent diversity, urban experience, gender and the teaching of adolescents and literature. Special fee required.
Instructor: Lorraine Cella
A&HE 4053 Cultural perspectives and literature
Contemporary literary selections are explored within a theoretical context that emphasizes historical, cultural, political, and aesthetic dimensions of these texts. Special fee required.
Instructor: Kathleen Hickey
A&HE 4056 Feminist Perspectives and Literature
An examination of women writers of the 20th century, exploring common themes: growing up female, marriage and the family, women as artists, and minority women within a critical feminist framework. Special fee required.
Instructor: Kathleen Hickey
A&HE 4057 English methods
A required course which focuses on practical aspects of teaching English, including lesson and unit plans, effective teaching strategies, evaluation and assessment, curriculum design, and integration of language arts. The overarching theme addresses literacy practices as historically situated and contextualized.Special fee required.
Instructor: Lorraine Cella
A&HE 4058 Teaching of reading
The course focuses on helping teachers examine theoretical and pedagogical principles relevant to teaching literary and non-literary texts with emphasis on the relations of texts and readers. Special fee required.
Instructor: John Browne
A&HE 4100 Teaching Drama and Theater
The role of drama in the classroom. Students will examine the role of theaters in the community, examining production, performance and the educative power of drama. Special fee required.
Instructor: Erick Gordon
A&HE 4150 Teaching literacies in secondary maths, sciences, and the humanities
Prepares secondary teachers in disciplines other than English to meet new literacy requirements for both teachers and students. The effective use of listening, speaking, reading writing and other modes of representing to promote learning will be demonstrated. This class may be appropriate for English majors who plan to teach Humanities. Special fee required.
A&HE 4151 Teaching of writing
The course integrates theory and practice for teachers. Topics include the textual character of genres, critical perspectives on writing instruction, research on writing, evaluation and assessment of writing, and classroom methods for teaching writing. This course is taught with A&HE 4156, Writing: Nonfiction, as part of a 6 point sequence. Special fee required.
Instructor: Renee Cherow-Oleary
A&HE 4152 Literacies and technologies in the secondary English classroom
Introduces students to media technology as it relates to secondary English education. English is an increasingly mediated and technologized discipline. New technologies have enabled emerging practices that have significant implications for literacy learning and teaching. Special fee required.
Instructor: Renee Cherow-Oleary
A&HE 4155 Critical issues in the secondary English classroom
An examination of critical issues that shape and reshape the teaching and learning of literacies in English classrooms. Special fee required.
Instructor: Raymond Pultinas
A&HE 4156 Writing: Nonfiction
A non-fiction writing workshop. This course is taught as part of 6 credit block with A&HE 4151: Teaching of writing. Special fee required.
Instructor: Renee Cherow-Oleary
A&HE 4157 Writing: Fiction and personal narrative
A fiction writing class combined with close readings of selected contemporary writers. Special fee required.
Instructor: Abby Schiffman
A&HE 4158 Writing: Poetry
A poetry writing class combined with close readings of selected contemporary poets. Special fee required.
A&HE 4550 Teaching of poetry
Experience in reading and writing poetry, designing curriculum, and determining effective teaching practices. Special fee required.
Instructor: Renee Cherow-Oleary
A&HE 4551 Teaching of Shakespeare
An examination of diverse theoretical perspectives and pedagogical principles for teaching Shakespeare. Special fee required
Instructor: John Browne
A&HE 4552 Curriculum and assessment in the secondary English classroom
Dominant curriculum theories of the 20th century, related assessment and evaluation methods and traditions, and current approaches to assessing student and teacher learning in the secondary English classroom. Special fee required.
A&HE 4556 Seminar for Inservice Teachers
A required course for 34 and 35 point students, this seminar is designed to support practicing teachers as they compose and expand a teaching life and persona. The seminar will provide teachers with a community of colleagues with whom they can build and explore professional growth in the areas of instructional strategies, pedagogy, and the critical issues of contemporary teaching, as well as an opportunity to reflect and discuss issues of concern. Offered fall semester only.
Instructor: John Browne
A&HE 4557 Transitional B: Seminar in the Teaching of English
This one credit course serves as a follow up to A&HE 4556 for students enrolled in the Transitional B program. Through reading, writing, videotaping, reflecting and discussing, inservice teachers will continue to develop their professional identity, confidence and resources. The class will offer a supportive community of colleagues and will focus on praxis-the reciprocity of theory and practice-in NYC's public schools. Offered spring semester only.
Instructor: Mikki Shaw
A&HE 4561 Teaching narrative and story
An introduction to narrative theory and constructing stories.
A&HE 4750 Supervised teaching of English
Majors only. Students may satisfy state certification requirements by participating in the supervised teaching program in the Fall and Spring semesters. Students should plan to reserve part of each day Monday through Friday for classroom experience. Special fee required.
Instructor: Noah Golden
A&HE 4751 Field work and observation in secondary English
Majors only. A series of guided observations of schools, teachers, and students. Student teachers will synthesize theoretical knowledge with intense practical experience to integrate educational philosophy with the reality of day-to-day life teaching in a secondary English language arts classroom. Special fee required.
Instructor: Uzma Akhand
A&HE 4904 Independent study in teaching English
Permission of instructor required. Research and independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Students work individually or with others.
Instructor: Renee Cherow-Oleary
A&HE 5149 Writing research: Methods and assumptions
Examines assumptions that undergird the range of philosophies, intellectual traditions, and points of view that influence research writing. Special fee required.
Instructor: Ruth Vinz
A&HE 5150 Research in practice
Examines the role of practitioner qualitative research in knowledge production, in teaching and learning. Special fee required.
A&HE 5151 Perspectives on "popular" texts in English classrooms
This course unites post-structuralist literacy theory with cultural studies. Through a range of class activities and readings, the course will explore intersections between feminism, post-modern aesthetics, and "popular" texts. Special fee required.
A&HE 5154 Rhetoric and teaching
The course examines the applicability of the rhetorical tradition for students and teachers, emphasizing the culture and knowledge exhibited in texts, writers and readers. Special fee required.
A&HE 5204 Fieldwork in teaching English
Permission of instructor required. Opportunity for qualified students, individually or in small groups, to develop and pursue projects, in consultation with an advisor, in schools, communities, and other field settings.
A&HE 5504 Research paper: teaching of English
Required of all Ed.M., Ed.D. and Ph.D. students. This course seeks to facilitate the writing of the paper representing a refined presentation of a student’s research question and area of inquiry. Special fee required.
Instructor: Valerie Kinloch
A&HE 5514 Readers' responses: Research, theory and practice
This course is an advanced seminar for students exploring research issues related to an examination of reading processes. Various models of critical literacy will be studied including the influence of psychological, transactional, feminist, and social accounts of reading on current theory and practice. Special fee required.
Instructor: Sheridan Blau
A&HE 5518 Teaching English in diverse social/cultural contexts
A seminar examining how gender, class, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation issues inform instructional goals, curriculum planning/implementation, and practices in the teaching of literature, language, and composition in English language arts classrooms. Special fee required.
Instructor: Uzma Akhand
A&HE 5590 Master's seminar: Teaching of English
Designed to prepare students for completing integrative project for the M.A. degree, students participate in seminars which are oriented towards creating an academic, professional, and social network. Students research an area of special interest and share their findings. Special fee required.
Instructor: John Browne
A&HE 6011 The politics of teaching English
An examination of political and socio-cultural theories of language, literature, and composition that inform diverse ideological constructions of knowledge, curriculum, and pedagogy in English language arts education. Special fee required.
A&HE 6015 College teaching of English
An examination of programs and methods of instruction in English courses on the college level. Special fee required.
Instructor: Kathleen Hickey
A&HE 6151 Narrative Research in English Education
Permission of instructor required. A survey of approaches to and examples of narrative research, including oral history, life history, biography, autobiography, and autoethnography. Special fee required.
Instructor: Janet Miller
A&HE 6152 Advanced narrative research in English education
This advanced course will provide context for students to build on their prior knowledge of various genres of narrative re-search (biography, autobio-graphy, testimonial, oral history, or life history, for example), to engage in sustained study of a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that might frame their research, and to further develop their own narrative research projects.
Instructor: Janet Miller
A&HE 6204 Advanced fieldwork in teaching English
Permission of instructor required. See description for A&HE 5204.
Instructor: Janet Miller
A&HE 6404 Internship in college teaching of English
Permission of instructor required. Opportunities to work in various field-based sites. Students must inquire to see if opportunities are available during any given semester.
Instructor: Valerie Kinloch
A&HE 6450 Internship in teaching English
Permission of instructor required. A forum designed to offer students an opportunity to explore key issues in the field through their involvement with students, teachers, and classroom settings throughout the city. Special fee required.
Instructor: Janet Miller
A&HE 6504 Doctoral seminar: Teaching of English
(Must be taken at least once during course of doctoral study.) Doctoral seminar acquaints students with the uses and history of the field of English Education, and helps students focus on issues that will shape their own research. Special fee required.
Instructor: Ruth Vinz
A&HE 6514 Postmodern textual theories
Teachers will examine literary and theoretical texts central to postmodern theory. Students will explore, through a diverse range of means and media, texts deemed pivotal to postmodern approaches and principles. Special fee required.
Instructor: Ruth Vinz
A&HE 6904 Research and independent study
Permission of instructor required. Advanced research and independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Students work individually or with others.
Instructor: Valerie Kinloch
A&HE 7504 Dissertation: teaching of English
Permission of instructor required. Designed to help students shape the writing of the review of literature, research methodology, data analysis and implications of the research. Special fee required.
Instructor: Janet Miller
A&HE 8904 Dissertation advisement in teaching English
Permission of instructor required. All Ed.D. and Ph.D. students must be continuously registered for Dissertation Advisement until completion of the program. Fee to equal 3 points, current tuition rate for each term.
Instructor: Valerie Kinloch