Strategies

American and British Literature

 

Webpage of Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University

American
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

British – Romantic
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html

British – Victorian
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html

British, Irish, and Commonwealth – 20th c.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html

Syllabi and other material for literature courses

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Teaching Strategies: Service Learning

Service Learning is a pedagogy that combines classroom instruction, meaningful service in the community, and personal reflection. The resources here provide examples of existing service learning courses at U-M and other institutions, as well as strategies for creating new service learning opportunities.

Service Learning at UM (Ginsberg Center)
Overview of service learning opportunities at the University of Michigan, including both undergraduate and graduate-level courses.

Service Learning in Undergraduate Education: Where is it Going? (Erlich, 2005, The Carnegie Foundation)
Commentary on the evolution of service learning in higher education, and its future directions regarding education for liberal and professional learning, leadership development, and democratic participation.

Learn and Serve (National Service-Learning Clearinghouse)
This is the higher education section of the National Service Learning Clearinghouse. Includes many resources for college instructors, including SLICE: Service Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples (lesson plans, projects, syllabi, etc.). Read more »

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Asian American and Asian Pacific American Studies

These links are designed to assist instructors in their teaching and learning by providing AA/APA teaching resources, population statistics, online directories, and news and current events.

ASIAN AMERICANS

Teaching Guides

Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu, eds. Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Hirabayahi, Lane Ryo. Teaching Asian America: Diversity & the Problem of Community. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993.

Deborah Wei and Rachel Kamel, eds. Resistance in Paradise: Rethinking 100 Years of U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee in cooperation with Office of Curriculum Support, School District of Philadelphia, 1998.

Population Statistics

The Asian Population: 2000. Census 2000 Brief.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf

The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population: 2000. Census 2000 Brief.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-14.pdf

Online Directories

Asian American Studies” Subject Guide., University of California Irvine Libraries.
http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/asian_american Read more »

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Anthropology

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

NOTE: Click on Social Sciences to find Anthropology. Some of the special features in this site require an id and password. Passwords and ids are always included on the lead page. You might need to scroll down to find them.

Lectures, simulations, tutorials, and other multimedia resources

Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC), University of Kent at Canterbury
http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/

Teaching material based on existing field data

Anthropology & Education Quarterly
http://aaanet.org/sections/cae/AEQ.html

Teaching Anthropology: Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges Notes
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1941-4161/issues

 

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American Culture

American Studies Web at Georgetown University: Dynamic Syllabi
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/teaching-and-learning/syllabi/

Links to online courses arranged by topics

Making of America (University of Michigan)
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu

A digital library of primary documents about American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

This site contains a collection of sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the early 20th century. The site contains links to first-person narratives of the American South, North American slave narratives, a library of Southern literature, and historical material about North Carolina and about the church in the Southern black community.

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