faculty
Julie Bowman
Associate Teaching Professor
English & Communication
Contact
508-999-8274
julie.bowman@umassd.edu
Liberal Arts 216
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Provides students additional support for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I work. Students develop college-level reading and writing skills and work closely with the instructor as well as independently, in small groups, and as a class.Developmental writing workshop co-requisite for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I.
Provides students additional support for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I work. Students develop college-level reading and writing skills and work closely with the instructor as well as independently, in small groups, and as a class.Developmental writing workshop co-requisite for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I.
Provides students additional support for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I work. Students develop college-level reading and writing skills and work closely with the instructor as well as independently, in small groups, and as a class.Developmental writing workshop co-requisite for ENL 101 Critical Writing and Reading I.
Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.
Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.
Argument-focused course that introduces students to scholarly reading and writing strategies. Students practice widely-applicable methods of reading, writing, and revising arguments. Students read college-level arguments from diverse popular, public, and academic genres in order to develop their academic skills of analyzing single arguments, synthesizing multiple perspectives, and composing informed responses to an ongoing conversation.
Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.
A course emphasizing the development of skill in organizing materials, the formation of a lively and concrete style and an authentic personal voice, and the growth of useful techniques in the arts of exposition, persuasion, and argumentation.
An exploration of literary works, themes, and genres of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course situates early modern poetry, prose, and drama within a specific topical and/or theoretical focus such as "Imagining the Body in Early Modern England" and "Saints and Sinners on the Early English Stage." Writers may include Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, Marlowe, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, and Behn.
Students will learn how to be an informed consumer of information and make more informed decisions. Topics include distinguishing good arguments from bad ones, interpreting the likelihood of outcomes, understanding the psychology underlying cognitive bias and error, recognizing our own biases and blind spots, and understanding how statistics and illustrations are used to sway opinion.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children's Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music, and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as BLS 200; LST 200.
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A course emphasizing the development of skill in organizing materials, the formation of a lively and concrete style and an authentic personal voice, and the growth of useful techniques in the arts of exposition, persuasion, and argumentation.
Register for this course.