UMass Boston | Continuing Education | Summer 08 Graduate Credit Courses

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ENGL611 Teaching of Literature Description: This course develops a theory and practice for the teaching of literature, applicable to both secondary and post-secondary education. The class reads, discusses, and analyzes sample presentations on literary texts in a variety of genres. The course serves teachers, prospective teachers, and non-teachers who seek an introduction to literature from pedagogical points of view. Academic Information: Prerequisite: Graduate student in ENGL only. Permission of Department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700). Distribution I Area: None. Distribution II Area: None. Diversity Area: None.	C Nixon	May 27-Jul 8	W-6-047 Wheatley Bldg, 6th Floor, Room 047	TuTh	6-9p	3	2152	$1230	The course has reached its maximum enrollment. For more infomation, contact 617 287 6200.
ENGL613 Teaching English with Technology Description: This course explores the potential uses of technology in the teaching of classes in English Studies. It situates this work within disciplinary pedagogical theory as it relates to the traditional areas of English Studies, composition, literature, and language. Academic Information: Prerequisite: Graduate student in Education and English. Others by permission only. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700). Distribution I Area: None. Distribution II Area: None. Diversity Area: None. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information.	E Kutz	May 27-Jul 9	Online	-	-	3	2963	$1390	Registration for this session has been closed. For more infomation, contact 617 287 6200.
ENGL613 Teaching English with Technology Description: This course explores the potential uses of technology in the teaching of classes in English Studies. It situates this work within disciplinary pedagogical theory as it relates to the traditional areas of English Studies, composition, literature, and language. Academic Information: Prerequisite: Graduate student in Education and English. Others by permission only. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700). Distribution I Area: None. Distribution II Area: None. Diversity Area: None. Click here for video introduction, instructor, books and other information.	E Kutz	May 27-Aug 21	Online	-	-	3	2779	$1390	Course has been cancelled. For more infomation, contact 617 287 6200 or read more about our Cancellation Policy.
ENGL646 Literature and Society Description: A study of literature with special reference to its social and historical circumstances, and of the theoretical questions raisedby such a perspective. Academic Information: Prerequisite: Graduate student in ENGL only. Permission of Department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700). Distribution I Area: None. Distribution II Area: None. Diversity Area: None.	P Barron	Jul 15-Aug 21	W-6-047 Wheatley Bldg, 6th Floor, Room 047	TuTh	6-9p	3	2534	$1230	Registration for this session has been closed. For more infomation, contact 617 287 6200.
ENGL671 The History of Children’s Literature Description: This course provides an overview of the field of children’s literature and its development. The subject matter is approached with both critical and scholarly attitudes, and works are examined in historical and cultural contexts. Topics and texts include myth, folk, and fairy tale; range includes children’s books from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, through materials of colonial America, the nineteenth-century moralists and fantasists, to modern classics; consideration of critical theories and questions of pedagogy is included. Academic Information: Prerequisite: Graduate student in ENGL only. Permission of Department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700). Distribution I Area: None. Distribution II Area: None. Diversity Area: None.	M Shaner	Jul 14-Aug 20	W-6-047 Wheatley Bldg, 6th Floor, Room 047	MW	2-5p	3	2782	$1230	Course has been cancelled. For more infomation, contact 617 287 6200 or read more about our Cancellation Policy.
ENGL677 Reading, Writing, and Translating Poetry Description: This course should be of particular interest both to creative writers and to students with foreign language skills. Students read poetry written in English, poetry translated into English, and selected prose on the nature, practice, and theory of translation. Reading and writing exercises include comparative studies of different translations of the same poem, translations of poems into English, sometimes with accompanying critical commentary; and original poems, some of them "imitations" of poems in other languages. Academic Information: Prerequisite: Graduate student in ENGL only. Permission of Department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700). Distribution I Area: None. Distribution II Area: None. Diversity Area: None.	K Bowen	May 28-Jul 9	W-6-047 Wheatley Bldg, 6th Floor, Room 047	MW	6-9p	3	2532	$1230	Course has been cancelled. For more infomation, contact 617 287 6200 or read more about our Cancellation Policy.

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