Awarded
Columbia College Outstanding Teacher
2024/2025
classes taught
English 10
Creative Writing
Instruction and practice in writing poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction prose, including autobiography, essays, and articles. Analysis of contemporary works with respect to literary techniques. The class employs a workshop format.
English 11
Film Appreciation
This course introduces students to the close analysis of film and television. It examines the broad questions of form and content, aesthetics and meaning, and history and culture. It explores the diverse possibilities presented by the cinematic art form through an examination of a wide variety of productions, national cinemas, and film movements. Topics include modes of production, narrative and non-narrative forms, visual design, editing, sound, genre, ideology, and critical analysis.
English 17
American Literature –
Colonial Period Late 19th Century
A study of American literature from its beginning to the late nineteenth century. Reading, analysis, and discussion of the major literary trends and authors of the time, including Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
English 18
American Literature –
Late 19th Century Modern Day
A study of American literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Reading, analysis, and discussion of the major literary trends and authors of the time, including Twain, James, Crane, Frost, Eliot, and Faulkner as well as a diverse group of contemporary writers.
English 46
Survey of British Literature –
Anglo Saxon Period 18th Century
A study of British literature from the Anglo-Saxons through the 18th Century. Reading, analysis, discussion, and essays on the major literary trends and authors of the time, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Behn, and Defoe.
English 47
Survey of British Literature –
19th and 20th Centuries and Beyond
An overview of the major works and writers of the British empire from the 19th and 20th centuries and beyond. The course focuses on analyzing literature through discussions and essays to identify both how the historical context influences literature and how literature influences society.
English 49
California Literature
An overview of the literary heritage of California, from its early origins to Harte, Bierce, and Twain through the realism of Norris and London, the regionalism of Steinbeck, Saroyan, Jeffers to the naturalism of Muir. Also will include writings from the Carmel cadre, the San Francisco Beat writers, to contemporary writers including Stegner, Yamamoto, Soto, Haslam, Tan, Didion, Rose, Miles, and Valdez. The approach will emphasize the rich ethnic diversity that has contributed to our literary heritage.
English C1000
Academic Reading and Writing
In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research. Students will compose a minimum of 5,000 words of formal writing across their major assignments at least 4,000 of which must be in revised final draft form.
English C1000:E
Academic Reading and Writing –
Enhanced
In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research. This course includes embedded support. Students should compose a minimum of 5000 words of formal writing across their major assignments, at least 4000 of which must be in revised final draft form.
English C1001
Critical Thinking and Writing
In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. Minimum 5,000 words of writing.
English C1002
Advanced Composition and Introduction to Literature
This transfer-level course introduces students to major literature genres: poetry, drama, short story, and long works of fiction from diverse cultural sources and perspectives. The course will analyze and appreciate works of philosophical, historical, literary, aesthetic, and cultural importance. Students write a minimum of 5,000 words in critical essays, employing methods of literary analysis and research, demonstrating further development of reading, critical reasoning, and writing skills.
