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De-stress After Finals.
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Join
Fellow MA Students on March 18th
at the Red Lion Pub
You
are invited to an "End of Quarter"
gathering for MA in English and
MA in Writing students.
Join us on Thursday, March 18th
at 6:00 pm in the upstairs lounge
at the Red Lion Pub on Lincoln!
Please let Jan
Flood know if you will be coming
by Wednesday, March 17. Thanks so
much! See you on the 18th!
Looking
to get Certified in Secondary Education?
Here is your guide:
MA in English students interested
in pursuing Certification for secondary
education must apply for admission
into the School of Education’s
Department of Teacher Education:
http://education.depaul.edu/html/academics/graduate.asp
Candidates for admission also
must:
• Submit evidence of passing
the Illinois Basic Skills Test.
• Submit evidence of having
a 3.0 grade point average in DePaul
course work
• Submit one satisfactory
evaluation of content area knowledge.
• Submit one satisfactory
recommendation related to the skills
and attitudes of Urban, Professional,
Multicultural Educators
• The Department of Teacher
Education is developing a plan for
evaluating technology skills, and
evidence of technology skills may
be added to the admissions requirements
in the near future.
For further information about these
requirements, please consult the
the School of Education’s
website and Office of Student Affairs.
Once admitted into the Department
of Teacher Education, MA in English
students must take the following
courses:
• SCG 406 ("Human Development
and Learning")
• SCG 408 ("Education
and Society")
• SCG 410 ("Introduction
to Research: Purposes, Issues, and
Methodologies")
• LSI 446 ("Psychology
and Education of the Exceptional
Learner"
• T&L 405 ("Professional
Practice in the Secondary Schools"),
• T&L 414 ("Literacy
in the Secondary Schools")
• T&L 590 (student teaching)
• T&L 591 (student teaching
seminar)
MA students seeing certification
to teach English in the secondary
schools must also take three methods
courses:
• ENG 484 “Teaching
Writing” (or T&L 428)
• ENG 474 “Teaching
Literature” (or T&L 426)
• T &L 429 “Teaching
Young Adult Literature”
More
Notes on Certification
ALUMN
IN THE NEWS
MAW graduate of 2001, Karen
Westmoreland Luce had
her article, "Questions
of Time: Publishing and Group
Identity in the StreetWise Writers
Group," Writing Groups Inside
and Outside the Classroom,
published by Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Karen
was a graduate assistant working
at StreetWise with Paula Mathieu
who co-wrote the article.
You
can find the article at:
https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=0-8058-4700-6
More
Chances to get involoved!
Professor
James Murphy has
organized a joint meeting of the
Midwest Victorian Studies
Association and the Society
for the Study of Nineteenth-Century
Ireland to take place April
16-18, 2004, at DePaul.
Faculty and students are warmly
invited.
More
Info.
If you'd like more information,
please get in touch with James.
Support
Fellow MA Students
as they present at the Eigth
Annual Conference of the Illinois
Philological Association
April 16 - 18that Lewis University
in Romeoville.
Friday:
"and pilgrims wer they alle":
The Carnivalesque in the "Cantebury
Tales" - Patricia McVary
The Interpretively Problematic Relationship
of Antonio and Bassanio - Christopher
Gilchrist
Brainstorming - Melissa Wiley
The Writer's Spiral: A source of
Creativity for A Genre of One -
Roxanne Pilat
The Lost Gospel of the Fishman -
Jon Nichols
"Transitions" and ECCB
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Butterfly
- Cheryl Hagedorn
Saturday
Waiting for Permission
- Roxanne Pilat
The 'New Conjugality' in William
Wycherley's "The Country Wife"
- Mary Costello
For more information on place and
times please contact Professor
Sirles in the English Department
or visit http://www.eiu.edu/~ipaweb/welcome.htm
Existing
Opportunities. . .
Threshold,
the student literary and arts magazine
of DePaul University, is still accepting
submissions of anything from short
stories to photographs, one-act
plays to graphics. Submit
yours now and be part of the annual
publication of the best student
work. The
deadline is April 2.
More
Info.
The
2004 Graduate Student Conference:
Organized and run by graduate students,
the conference is interdisciplinary
in scope; papers are invited in
any area of medieval or Renaissance
studies. It provides participants
the opportunity to present their
work in a collegial scholarly forum,
to meet students from other institutions
and disciplines who will be their
future colleagues, and to become
familiar with the Newberry Library
and its resources. The deadline
for abstracts has past, but you
can still join in on the confernece.
More
Info.
2004
M/MLA conference announcements and
ongoing calls for papers.
Faculty:Submit
citations,works in progress
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