Reflection: Teaching resilience through Russian literature

Teaching English Through Literature

This paper aims at emphasizing the use of literature as a popular technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas (i.e. vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for using literary texts in foreign language classroom and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts in foreign language classes are stre...

Teaching Negotiation Skills through Practice and Reflection with Virtual Humans

Although representation of physical environments and behaviors will continue to play an important role in simulation-based training, an emerging challenge is representation of virtual humans with rich mental models (e.g., including emotions, trust) that interact through conversational behaviors as well as physical ones. The motivation for such simulations is training soft-skills such as leaders...

Reflective Teaching: Improving Library Instruction Through Self-Reflection

Teaching Critical Reflection

The concepts and methods of anthropology provide an ideal framework for community service learning. Consider the central elements of an anthropological approach: 1) emphasizing community engagement through participant-observation; 2) understanding social justice issues through an analysis of class structures; 3) promoting social change by understanding power distribution; and 4) using critical ...

Russian Literature in English (RULE)

RULE205 The 19th-Century Russian Novel The 19th-century novel is widely regarded as the supreme achievement of Russian literature. This course will trace its development from Pushkin's elegant, witty novel in verse, EUGENE ONEGIN, through the grotesque comedies of Gogol, to the realist masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, with their complex depiction of human psychology and the philosophical...