Courses

Focus on essay construction. Emphasis is placed on coherence, unity, and writing well-developed and well-organized essays. Explores different rhetorical patterns (chronological order, logical division of ideas, cause-effect, comparison/contrast, etc.) as means to the end in fulfilling academic writing assignments. Study of different ways to organize and present ideas for different groups of readers.

Are you passionate about your writing? This New College seminar provides a supportive space for writers of all abilities to work on their own projects. The workshop provides friendly peer review and group study of the craft of writing. We’ll learn about the publishing industry from visiting authors, editors, and agents.

Introduces writers to a systematic approach to writing a journal article, including essential structures, stylistic conventions, and smart strategies for planning and completing projects under a deadline. Writers begin with their own working manuscripts (unpublished course paper, thesis, dissertation, etc.), identify a target journal, and draft short, strategic sections, based on peer review and instructor feedback, to create a final submission, per author’s guidelines.

Development of writing skills with an emphasis on vocabulary- building, grammatical accuracy, and the mastery of a variety of styles.

Principles of working with families of students with exceptionalities from diverse backgrounds. Emphasis given to evidence-based and best practices of working with families to help students be successful learners.

This class will examinethe contributing factors of wrongful convictions as outlined in the Innocence Projct and the National Registry of Exonerations, including eyewitness identification; false confessions, jailhouse informants, police and prosecutorial misconduct and junk science.

Exploration of sources of error throughout the process of wrongful convictions: police investigation, pre-trial process, adjudicatory process, and post-conviction process. Emphasis placed on the conceptions, motivations, and cognitive limitations of individual actors (witnesses, detectives, jurors, etc.), particularly on the organizational and institutional functions they serve.

Intensive writing applications with an emphasis on the writing process, action research, and the reading and discussion of reading and writing pedagogy and research.

Theory and use of x-ray diffraction systems as applied to crystallography, mineralogy, chemistry, and metallurgy.

Theory and use of x-ray diffraction systems as applied to crystallography, mineralogy, chemistry, and metallurgy.