Calls for Proposals for MLA 2012 in Seattle

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CFPs for Seattle 2012

The Webs We Weave: Online Pedagogy in Community Colleges

Online instruction in literature, language and writing. Teacher-student and student-student communication; retention; course design; faculty workload issues; advantages and disadvantages for students. Proposals to Linda Weinhouse (lweinhouse@ccbcmd.edu) by 30 January 2011.

Sticker Shock: Responses to the Rising Cost of Textbooks

Consequences of changes in textbook publishing, delivery of textbook materials and the associated cost increases for undergraduate course design, teaching and learning. Proposals to Falk Cammin (camminfalk@foothill.edu) by 1 March 2011.

Assessment with Integrity

Learning outcomes, mandated rubrics, funding by completion – we feel the threats. How can community college teachers create constructive assessment processes while upholding the integrity of curricula and instruction? Proposals to Eric Devlin (eric.devlin@tccd.edu) by 1 March 2011.

The following panel is sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association:

What Works? Integrating Literature and Culture

Innovative strategies for integrating literary and cultural studies in lower division and continuing education courses in English and Foreign Languages. Roundtable. 250 word abstracts 15 March 2011. Stacey Donohue sdonohue@cocc.edu

Related Panels

Irony in Africa. Analysis of Irony in visual, fictional, curatorial, cinematic, heritage sites, musical, or other realms of African life invited. Period, region, country are open. Abstracts by 1 March 2011; Margaret Hanzimanolis (hanzimanolis@gmail.com) and Lucy V. Graham (lucyg@sun.ac.za).