Teaching the literature survey course : new strategies for college faculty /

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Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Teaching and learning in higher education
Teaching and learning in higher education (West Virginia University Press)
Subject:Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11912162
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Other authors / contributors:Dujardin, Gwynn, editor.
Lang, James M., editor.
Staunton, John A., 1969- editor.
ISBN:9781946684110
1946684112
9781946684080
9781946684097
1946684082
1946684090
9781946684103
1946684104
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2018).
Summary:"Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining--even while re-imagining and re-inventing--the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through essays both practical and theoretical, the collection presents survey teachers with an exciting range of new strategies for energizing their teaching and engaging their students in this vital encounter with our evolving literary traditions. From mapping early English literature to a team-based approach to the American survey, and from multimedia galleries to a "blank syllabus," contributors propose alternatives to the traditional emphasis on lectures and breadth of coverage. The volume is at once a set of practical suggestions for working teachers (including sample documents like worksheets and syllabi) and a provocative engagement with the question of what introductory courses can and should be"--
Other form:Print version: Teaching the literature survey course. First edition. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018 9781946684080