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FALL 2010
"This world is not governed by fiends or saints
but rather by ten thousand dim souls in between."
- Chang-Rae Lee, novelist
"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings.
It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing
through one's head."   -Mark Twain
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20TH & 21ST CENTURIES
Way Back
20TH & 21ST CENTURIES
Discussion Snippets
COHABITATION
REVEALING IDs
MARS/VENUS
STRAYS
LORD WINSTON'S PIGS
The Alien/Gender Debate
The Happy Rainbows
IDEAL MATES
MBTI and Values Clarification
UFOs topic (no pics;;)
SPRING 2006
FALL 2006
Syllabus for the winter pre-freshmen writing course
FALL 2008
SPRING 2009
FALL 2009
SPRING 2010
I taught three sections of Practical English for incoming Freshmen, one Advanced English Discussion course, and one Advanced Academic English Writing course.
                                
Freshmen Practical English:
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Presentations

FLS 156-03 Advanced English Discussion:
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Discussion topic syllabus for spring:  
t o p i c s

FLS 157 Advanced Academic English Writing:
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S y l l a b u s
I taught  three sections of Freshmen Academic English, one section of Screen English and one section of Advanced English Discussion.

Freshmen Academic English/Public Health majors (D3, D9, E4):
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Presentation help---------->
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Screen English (159-05):
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Advanced English Discussion (156-05):
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S y l l a b u s
                                potential topics
Freshmen Academic English/Public Health majors (D4, D5, E1):
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S y l l a b u s
Presentation help---------->
Presentations

Screen English (159-04):
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Recent news:


Any  questions?
Please feel free to send me an email:  email@mikeblackwood.net
I taught  three sections of Freshmen Academic English and two sections of Reading II (reading for English Literature Majors), what I have come to call RELM (Reading for English Lit. Majors).

Freshmen Academic English/Public Health majors (D3, C2, C9):
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Reading for English Lit Majors (Reading II) (FLS134, sections 01 and 08):
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special RELM page--->
RELM
Freshmen Academic English/Public Health majors (D1, D4, C4):
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S y l l a b u s

Advanced Academic English Writing (157-00?!;;):
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S y l l a b u s

Advanced English Discussion (156-05):
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S y l l a b u s
                                       potential topics
I taught  three sections of Freshmen Academic English, two sections of Screen English and one Business English course.

                                
Freshmen Practical English:
fall syllabus---------------->
S y l l a b u s
Presentation help---------->
Presentations

Screen English (FLS 159-02, 159-04):
fall syllabus---------------->
S y l l a b u s

Business English
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S y l l a b u s
I taught three sections of Practical English for Freshmen, one Advanced English Discussion course, and one Writing/Discussion course.  The classes focused on social and public health issues/world events, and were group-oriented.
                                
Freshmen Practical English:
fall syllabus---------------->
S y l l a b u s
Presentation help---------->
Presentations

FLS 156-03 Advanced English Discussion:
fall syllabus---------------->
S y l l a b u s
fall topics are ready! ^^ ---------->
Topics

FLS 152-02 Writing & Discussion:
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S y l l a b u s
Each semester, English department students created short stories that were later bound into a novel.  Each semester got better and better. ~^^

Themes examined were truth, justice and liberty (the motto of Korea University).
Titles, by semester, are given below.

spring 2004
Title: Story Garden.
Themes meditated on were truth, justice and liberty
Freshmen compiled
We Will Bring Stories using the same themes.

fall 2003
Title:
Maiden Flight.
Total number of pages?  About 580!
Themes examined were truth, justice and liberty


spring 2003
Title:
64 Trees in BW.
Themes considered were truth, justice and liberty.
Freshmen made
Inside the Kaleidoscope.

fall 2002
Title:
Anam Blossoms.
Themes explored were truth, justice, friendship and confidence.

spring 2002
Title:
Spring's Harvest
Themes addressed were:
life/death, good/evil, truth/reality,
friend/foe, justice, and confidence.


fall 2001
Our first experiment with this short story project~^^
These were later bound into our first bound work,
Bedtime Stories
Themes ranged from love and friendship to truth and justice.

spring 2001 
Article Reactions

fall 2000
Journal Quotes of the week
(Wanna see what your upper-classmen were writing
and thinking years ago? Click on Journal Quotes; cool stuff^^)


spring 2000
Students work focused on information gathering strategies;
types of essays included persuasion, definition, description,
cause/effect, storytelling and illustration.  Much learning
was had via the bathroom mime recording of '99.

fall 1999
spring 1999         
for these three semesters, see below~^^
fall 1998

Again, (for those with no life/friends/family/this-is-your-only-class,
you hate movies/reading/games, etc) for information about last
century's semesters, just send me an email.

And where was I before that?
Taught Spanish and English for a few years at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia : )
All material copyrighted by Mike Blackwood, M.A.
I will teach 3 sections of Freshmen Academic English and one section of Screen English.

Freshmen Academic English/Public Health majors (B9, C1, and C6):
syllabus---------------->
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Screen English (159-07):
syllabus---------------->
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I taught 3 sections of Freshmen Academic English
and one section of Screen English.


Freshmen Academic English/Public Health majors (D5, D4, and C6):
syllabus---------------->
Click Here

Screen English (159-07):
syllabus---------------->
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SPRING 2011
FALL 2011
Announcements:
Have a safe holiday season, everyone!
I look forward to seeing your fresh faces in the spring!