• oral presentations
• assignment design
• in-class writing
• responses to student writing
• group work
• ESL issues
• syllabus design
• technology in Great Works

The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute has supported Great Works of Literature (ENG/LTT 2800 & 2850) with tremendous success since it was first designated a four-hour, communication-intensive course (CIC) in 2000. Last Spring, we offered a semester-long seminar designed specifically for Great Works faculty to meet and share their ideas on and experience with teaching Great Works. This semester, we would like to continue the program by bringing together Great Works faculty members again to explore and share strategies for using written, oral, and technology-facilitated communication activities in their classrooms as tools for learning.

The program will again function as a semester-long seminar, facilitated by the Institute's Great Works team. Participants will meet three times during the semester. Between sessions, we will maintain contact via a blog, and participants will be asked to do some reading and preparation for each session. Each of the meetings will be three and a half hours long, including two 90-minute working sessions and a half-hour working lunch. We will conduct each meeting as a roundtable discussion and will rely upon the faculty to lead by sharing their experiences and expertise with others in order to generate ideas for teaching with communication-intensive methods.