Online Otrganization Leader Training needs to be completed BEFORE the Fall Student Leader Meeting on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 7 pm in the Carroll Room.
Organizations wishing to enroll other members of their organization should send their request to tbates@smith.edu.
RECURRING MEETING LINK https://smith.zoom.us/j/91621966155
EDC 311 Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Learners
Students who speak languages other than English are a growing presence in U.S. schools. These students need assistance in learning academic content in English as well as in developing proficiency in English. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the instructional needs and challenges of students who are learning English in the United States. This course explores a variety of theories, issues, procedures, methods and approaches for use in English as a second language, bilingual, and other learning environments. It also provides an overview of the historic and current trends and social issues affecting the education of English Learners. Enrollment limited to 35. Priority given to students either enrolled in or planning to enroll in the student teaching program. Through this course, participants will gain
knowledge and skills to effectively instruct multilingual learners K-12. Successful
completion of the course qualifies an educator for the SEI (Sheltered English
Instruction) endorsement required for teacher licensure or re-licensure in
Massachusetts. Credits: 4 Renata Pienkawa
Normally offered each springWelcome! This course supports the Pre-Practicum experience for students pursuing Initial Licensure.
The course meets weekly on Monday afternoons.
| Credits: 1 | Max Enrollment: 0 |
| Course Type: Laboratory | Section Enrollment: 11 |
| Grade Mode: Credit/Non Credit | Waitlist Count: 0 |
| Reserved Seats: No | |
| Coreq: EDC 345D - Elementary Curric & Methods | |
| Time/Location: Monday | 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM / Seelye 105 | Instructional Method: In-Person |
This lab accompanies the elementary student teaching internship course EDC 345D. The focus of the lab will be the examination of student teaching dilemmas for discussion and reflection. Student teachers will be introduced to key topics germane to their internship while examining the student teaching experience. The course will bring together content knowledge, professional dispositions/caring, instructional methods, assessment strategies, collaboration, diversity, classroom management, and technology. In this lab, student teachers will also reflect on teaching and their plans for future learning, and work on building the portfolio of teaching required for state licensure. Only open to students in Smith's teacher education program. Corequisite: EDC 345D. S/U only. (E) | |
This course enables students to hone skills in writing creatively within the genres of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Over the semester, you’ll acquire essential tools for telling your stories — for choosing effective “form(s)” and language for the ideas, visions and emotions you wish to communicate. Students will draft, workshop, and revise three pieces of writing over the course of the semester, one each in the genres of creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction.
Class learning includes participation in “workshop” sessions in which student work is read aloud and critiqued in a group setting. There will also be in-class writing exercises and discussions about process and revision. Students will be assigned to breakout groups for small group discussion during the week [all groups listed in the ENG 125-04 S’24 Shared Google Drive and will have particular responsibility for providing in- depth peer evaluations of the drafts of the other students in their breakout group at specified moments in the term. All students will also be expected to supply comments on shorter pieces-in-process posted on ENG 125-04 S'24 Word-Press by all the students in the course.
Assigned readings on craft will introduce, exemplify and enhance your understanding of particular aspects of craft and technique within the three genres of our focus. And because all serious writers learn the most important writerly lessons from masterful examples, we’ll also examine each genre through a variety of readings exemplifying practice within each genre.
This course offers the opportunity to experiment with forms of poetry and to read and discuss poems from a writer's point of view. The class will have a special focus on ekphrastic poetry or poetry in response to art, engaging Poetry Center events, the Smith College Museum of Art exhibitions, library archives, and special collections. You will make several trips to the museum and libraries, supported with writing prompts provided by the instructor. In addition to reading the required texts and attending or streaming Poetry Center readings, you will present the work of one poet whom you’ve studied closely and submit a portfolio of 10 poems and a brief reflection at the end of the term.
Applied Sports Medicine ESS 280 Spring 2024
Foundations of Injury Prevention and Treatment
Instructor: Dr Lori Hittner-Engel (She/Her/Hers)
Credit Hours: 4
Class Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 1:20pm—2:35 Ainsworth classroom
Office: Phone Email: lengel@smith.edu
Office Hours: by appointment available on Zoom or in person at HPL
Course Description:
In this course, students will review musculoskeletal anatomy, etiology of common sports injuries, injury prevention, concussion management and learn how to train individuals involved in sport to maintain health and performance. Students will be introduced to different assessment tools, treatment interventions, sports nutrition, sports psychology, and research methods. Students will apply new knowledge and research a common sports injury to be presented to peers at the end of the semester.
In this course student will:
1. Develop an understanding of the anatomy and etiology of common sports injuries.
2. Understand strategies for injury prevention and treatment
3. Gain understanding of role of nutrition on sports performance
4. Understand Concussion management
5. Develop an understanding of commonly used assessment tools
6. Utilize appropriate treatment and training interventions
7. Identify primary source literature to develop a research paper
8. Interpret and translate research findings and design a sports injury presentation
Required Materials:
Introduction to Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, by Robert C. France (3rd edition) ,Cengage, USA. IBSN:978-0-357-37916-5. e-copy will be provided on Moodle.
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Russian Culture
Ruth Averbach
Pierce Hall, Room 104
Course Description
In June 2013, President Vladimir Putin signed into law a ban on ‘propaganda’ that advocates for non-traditional sexual relationships, homosexuality, and transgenderism. Despite this, Russia has at times in its history been a bastion of gender and sexual diversity. Nevertheless, Russia’s queer and trans heritage is often neglected in scholarly and popular conceptions of the country. Students in this course examine Russia’s queer and trans history through literature, visual arts, and music. Topics include the history of “homosexuality” and “heterosexuality,” the medical history of transsexuality, gay and lesbian subjectivities, trans autobiography and fiction, and the ethics of queer scholarship.
Course Objectives
This seminar is designed to achieve several goals. First, this course develops students’ critical thinking and writing skills. Students will learn how to outline, draft, and revise papers, effectively summarize literary texts, analyze specific themes in a work, contextualize artistic works in a proper cultural and historical context, understand and respond to critical works, and construct a short research paper with a coherent thesis and clear line of argumentation. Second, students will gain a broad overview of Queer and Trans Russian history and culture and engage with understudied source materials, perspectives and experiences concerning gender, sex, and sexuality.
Course Requirements
Assignments
Weekly reading responses (appx. 250 words)
First Paper: Summary of a Literary Text (3 pages)
Second Paper: Thematic Analysis (5 pages)
Third Paper: Research and Argumentation (7 pages)
Draft paper due one week before final version
Students will read and respond to a classmate’s paper within a week of turning in final drafts
Revisions will be turned in a week after receiving their peer review and instructor feedback
Due dates for all assignments are listed in the reading schedule
Grading Rubric
Attendance and Participation – 20%
Reading Responses – 20%
First Paper – 15%
Second Paper – 15%
Third Paper Presentation – 10%
Third Paper – 20%
Course Expectations
It is essential for students to complete assigned readings, attend course meetings, and contribute to class discussions. Feel welcome to use electronic devices, but do not let them distract others or yourself from the lesson. Please let Ruth know as soon as possible if you are ill or must miss class for any reason.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to uphold all Smith College policies on academic integrity. AI is only acceptable for proofreading for grammar, punctuation, and spelling. All outside sources used in written assignments must be cited properly.
Accommodations
If you need any accommodations to participate in and complete the course, please contact the Accessibility Resource Center (College Hall 104; arc@smith.edu; 413-585-2071) and let Ruth know how she can best serve your needs.
COURSE READING SCHEDULE
Week II: Sexuality and Russian Civilization
M: (De)legalize Gay
Igor Kon, The Sexual Revolution in Russia (11-38)
Foucault, “The Birth of Homosexuality” from The History of Sexuality, vol. II
Olearius, The Travels of Olearius in 17th Century Russia
W: Is Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Universal?
Xenia the Servant of God, or Andrei Fyodorovich the Holy Fool
Benjamin, excerpts from The Transsexual Phenomenon
Mayhew, “Holy Foolishness and Gender Transgression in Russian Hagiography” (optional)
Week III: Is Homosexuality a Psychological Complex?
M: The Endless Anxieties of Nikolai Gogol
Gogol, “The Nose”
Gogol, “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt”
Freud, excerpts of “Certain Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality”
Freud, letter to father of a homosexual boy
W: H-o-t t-o Gogol: Gay Iconography
Gogol, The Overcoat
Gogol, “Nevsky Prospect”
Gogol, “Woman”
First Paper Draft Due Sunday
Week IV: Aleksandr Aleksandrov: Russia’s First Transsexual Writer
M: Conceptualizing Transsexual Autobiography
Aleksandrov, The Cavalry Maiden, Chapters I-VI
Zirin, “Introduction” to English translation of The Cavalry Maiden
W: The Unmaking of a Man
Aleksandrov, The Cavalry Maiden, Chapters VII-XIII
First Paper Due Sunday
Week V: Aleksandrov’s Fiction
M: Trans Men and Misogyny
Aleksandrov, Nurmeka
Zazanis, “On Hating Men (and Becoming One Anyway)”
W: Colonialism and the Transsexual Empire
Aleksandrov, Nurmeka
Puar, excerpts from Terrorist Assemblages (optional, Ruth will summarize)
First Paper Peer Review Notes Due
Week VI: Between Sex and Sexuality
M: Compulsory Heterosexuality
Gan, “The Ideal”
Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”
W: Compulsory Homosexuality
Pomialovsky, Seminary Sketches
First Paper Revisions Due Sunday
Week VII: Becoming ‘Gay’
M: Homosexual or Gay?
Kuzmin, selected poems
Kuzmin, Wings
Somov, selected paintings
W: Is Sexuality an Identity or a Behavior?
Kuzmin, Wings (finish)
Rozanov, excerpts from “People of the Moonlight”
Week VIII: Becoming ‘Gay’ (Cont’d); Lesbianism and Gender Expression
M: Lesbian Gender and Sexuality
Zinovieva-Annibal, The Tragic Menagerie
W: Lesbian Gender and Sexuality (cont’d)
Zinovieva-Annibal, The Tragic Menagerie (continue)
Second Paper Draft Due
Week IX: Lesbianism and Gender Expression (Cont’d)
M: What is the Difference Between Lesbians and (Trans) Men?
Zinovieva-Annibal, The Tragic Menagerie (finish)
Shrier, excerpts from Irreversible Damage
Wittig, excerpts from The Straight Mind (optional, Ruth will summarize)
W: Sapphic Verse
Gippius, selected poems
Parnok, selected poems
Tsvetaeva, selected poems
Sappho, selected poems
Second Paper Due
Week X: Pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary Sexuality
M: Is Male Heterosexuality Gay?
Gorky, “26 Men and a Girl”
Mulvey, excerpts from Visual Pleasure
W: Is Homosexuality Communist?
Trifonov, selected poems
Kharitonov, “One Boy’s Story” and “Alyosha-Serezha”
Harry Whyte, letter to Stalin
Second Paper Peer Review Notes Due
Week XI: Transsexuality, Soviet Style
M: Transsexuality and Medicine
Gill-Peterson, excerpts from Histories of the Transgender Child
Benjamin, The Transsexual Phenomenon
Blanchard, excerpts from articles on transsexual etiology
Kalnberz, excerpts from My Time
W: Is Gender a Social Duty?
Hammer & Sickle (1994)
Bogdan Popa, Decentering Queer Theory
Second Paper Revisions Due
Week XII: Late and Post-Soviet Sexuality
M: Late Soviet Sexuality
Past, “No Offense in Love”
Rybikov, “The Lay of the Gay Slavs”
Fiks, selected poems and photographs
W: Post-Soviet Tolerance and Intolerance in Popular Culture
t.A.t.U, 200km/h in the Wrong Lane
Strykalo, “vse resheno”
2013 Anti-Gay Propaganda bill
Selections of recent American anti-gay and trans bills
Third Paper Outlines Due
Week XIII: Trans Art in an Age of Reaction
M: Between Homosexuality and Transsexuality
Outlaw (2019)
W: Being Trans When Being Trans is Illegal
Letter, A City Flower
Selections, What Is a Woman?
Dugin, selections from The Fourth Political Theory and interview with Tucker Carlson
Third Paper Drafts Due Sunday
Week XIV: Conclusion and Presentations
M: Student Presentations
Students will present their final projects in progress in a conference format
W: Conclusion
Student presentations will continue
Concluding lecture
Third Papers Due (one week after final date)
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