This real-world problem puts students in the position of making their own judgments about film and connecting those judgments to a visible purpose….Continue Reading National Film Preservation Problem
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Harry Potter and the Walkabout
This staged-assignment problem is designed make students familiar with some of the academic, cultural, and extracurricular activities and events on their campus….Continue Reading Harry Potter and the Walkabout
Choosing a Teaching Text: James Joyce’s Ulysses
A major challenge for an instructor involves choosing the best available critical edition of a text for a class….Continue Reading Choosing a Teaching Text: James Joyce’s Ulysses
A Case for Classics
The problem evokes an exploration of texts, which requires students to explore and discuss the texts within a collaborative framework in an effort to uncover how they are a product of setting and society at a certain point in history yet represent elements which make them valuable in contemporary times….Continue Reading A Case for Classics
“A Poem has a Life before it Gets into my Anthology?”
Where does the poem you read in an anthology originate? Is the copy in your anthology a good copy of that original?…Continue Reading “A Poem has a Life before it Gets into my Anthology?”