If there's broad interest in pursuing CW Pedagogy offerings, I'd suggest incorporating them into a revised version of the training "program" currently provided to CW Grads, first, then building on it to create actual CW pedagogy courses if there's sustained interest/need. I say that only because, given pending retirements and current workloads, I'm guessing the dept. can't add new courses without taking something else away from the curriculum. And we don't want to do that. On the other hand, regional faculty (myself, at least) could potentially be added to the mix to handle additions re: trainings/courses in CW pedagogy.

In general, I'm interested in pursuing any options, ideas, etc., we can create to help foster pedagogical knowledge/experience in CW among CW majors. It can only help their chances in the job market, and could generate positive PR for the CW program, as well. I have serious reservations about how such offerings would appeal to regional students, though perhaps such courses could be cross-listed with Education courses, whose students tend to overrun regional CW courses, anyway. I do like the idea of CW grads teaching CW on the regionals in order to expose them to diverse audiences/learning styles, but that would also cut into my own ability to offer CW courses. There may be work-arounds there, though. 

Eric M.


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HI all,

sorry about the barrage of emails, but i do feel that we ought to be trying to stage the discussion that Eric M raised about possible courses in CW Pedagogy. We didn't get time to discuss it yesterday and i think it's an important discussion. I wonder whether that might be a graduate prospect for "inter-regional" hosting, for example; across Miami campuses, offering diverse classroom and demographic contexts for pedagogical development.

On top of all of which i think we need more discussion about potential future directions, about emergent fields (e-books is one obvious contender, for example) and concommitant hiring opportunities.


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cris