Two TLTE Summer Graduate Classes

TEAC 930B Special Topic: Writing for Publication
Dr. Loukia K. Sarroub
May 19-June 5
MTWR
1-4:30 pm
While graduate students often learn a wide array of research methodologies and analytic tools, very little attention has been devoted to coursework and/or writing experiences focused on the writing-up of research in a sustained and systematic way. This course is an entrée into what it means to write academically and for publication and how to envision and produce the required products that are ultimately the currency for academic life in post-secondary and graduate education.
In this course students “write in” some of the academic genres necessary for their success as academics. The course will focus on the writing of an abstract (250-500 words), synopsis of multiple articles, journal length research report (10,000 words or fewer), book chapter, book prospectus, small grant proposal, and/or essay. By the end of this intensive writing course, each student will be expected to have at least two products ready for external review: an abstract and at least one of the other academic genres listed.

TEAC 952: Language and Learning
Dr. Loukia K. Sarroub
May 26-June 12, 2014
MTWR
9:00-12:30pm
This course focuses on situated language and learning across various disciplines, including literacy, education, mathematics, and science, poetry, music, multiple languages, the arts, etc. Students will read texts that imagine and examine language and learning through the lenses of activity theory, communities of practice models, identity theories, anthropological and psychological perspectives of language and mind, and creativity theory. Learning in and out of school contexts will be explored as mutually constitutive in the development of knowledge and the disciplining of language for academic purposes, and attention will be devoted to current notions of “academic literacies”, the new or not so new appellation for reading and writing in various disciplines and/or fields of inquiry. Students in the course will engage in proposing thought experiments and apply the texts they read and create to their own research interests. Thought experiment projects will be due a week after the course ends.

Questions about either course to Loukia Sarroub at lsarroub@unl.edu