Alexander on London Calling

Posted on 02/07/2020 by jmcward

Danny Alexander, professor of English, has published a reflection/assessment essay of The Clash’s 1980 album, London Calling.  The opening of the essay summarizes the effect the album had upon Alexander 40 years ago.  Discovering the album in Walmart in 1980 “was better than Christmas.” Four decades later London Calling remains a classic, and Alexander goes track-by-track through the double album, demonstrating the importance of the band and its music, then and now.  Alexander’s essay is available online at https://bridge909.org/news/clash-40-london.

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Great Books Events for Spring 2020

Posted on 01/28/2020 by jmcward


Michael Carriger, Assistant Professor of English, will host three Great Books lectures in the spring:

  • Feb. 5: Patrick Lafferty, Associate Professor of Web Development and Digital Media, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • March 4: Farrell Hoy Jenab, Director of Faculty Development,  A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
  • April 1: Luz Alvarez, Professor of Spanish, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All Lectures start at noon in the CoLab.

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Future Presentations for College Scholars

Posted on 01/28/2020 by jmcward

Two professors from the English Department will present for College Scholars in the spring:

Ruth Heflin, Adjunct Professor of English: The Magic of Ancient Sex

  • 5:30-6:30 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 11 in the Hudson Auditorium
  • 12:30-1:30 pm, Thursday, Feb. 13 in the CoLab

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More information about Heflin’s presentation can be found here:

https://www.jccc.edu/events/2020/0211-ruth-heflin.html

Sayanti Ganguly Puckett, Professor of English: Through A Splintered Looking Glass: Defining the Bengali Babu

  • Monday, April 13 in the Hudson Auditorium (evening presentation)
  • Wednesday, April 15 in the CoLab (day presentation)
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New English Department Guide

Posted on 01/28/2020 by jmcward

Last semester, Andrea Broomfield took control over the much-needed revision of our English Department Guide. It had been approximately 15 years since the last major revision. The Department Guide is more than 70 pages long.  In addition to detailed overviews of our core writing classes (ENGL 102, 106, 121, and 122), the Guide also contains descriptions of our upper-level writing classes and literature classes.  Several essays by faculty provide advice for teaching at the community college, diffusing tension in the classroom, integrating peer review workshops, and critical reading.   The Guide is available in print form and online: https://sites.google.com/view/jcccenglishprogramguide/home.  In addition to Andrea Broomfield,  Diane Davis and Maureen Fitzpatrick also helped with writing and editing. Several other faculty members from the English department contributed essays to the EPG: Bob Brannan, Beth Gulley, Ted Rollins, and Jim McWard.

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English Assessment Meeting

Posted on 01/28/2020 by jmcward

On Wednesday, Jan. 15, Monica Hogan, Danny Alexander, David Davis, Diane Davis, Ted Rollins, Tom Reynolds, Mark Browning, Shaun Harris, Nathan Jones, Beth Gulley, Marilyn Senter, Dan Cryer, Steve Werkmeister, and Jim McWard got together at the Lenexa City Center Library to assess literature essays from the Fall 2019 semester.   The JCCC Student Learning Outcome assessed was “Demonstrate an understanding of the broad diversity of the human experience and the individual’s connection to society.”

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