ENGL 495A
Supervised Teaching Preparation
Description: Seminar, three hours. Required of all applicants for teaching assistantships in English. Introduction to teaching of literature intended to prepare teaching assistants for their first assignments in leading discussion sections. Practical concerns of creating assignments, grading papers, and holding conferences. S/U grading.
Units: 0.0
Units: 0.0
1 of 1
Most Helpful Review
I took Violence in Cultural Theory and Literature. It was a tough course with some serious reading. We started with Aristotle's Poetics, did excerpts from Nietzsche, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kierkegaard, and many other challenging and lengthy works. You don't realize how much you've learned until the second week of your next English class. I sat in Professor Maniquis' class for 10 weeks and filled an entire composition book, attempting to capture just the bullet points of what he said. He just stands at the front of the room and talks... for two hours straight. If you need presentations or chalkboard notes, this is not the professor for you. Sometimes his lectures seem tangential, and it's tempting to put down the pen, but he always brings it back around, and you will regret not having written down what he was saying, regardless of how tangential it seemed at the time. He can also come off as conceited and pedantic, but I gladly excuse minor coarseness of personality in light of the incredible amount of information he is capable of imparting. I would highly recommend him to anyone, but with the warning that you must be prepared to dedicate yourself to the class.
I took Violence in Cultural Theory and Literature. It was a tough course with some serious reading. We started with Aristotle's Poetics, did excerpts from Nietzsche, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kierkegaard, and many other challenging and lengthy works. You don't realize how much you've learned until the second week of your next English class. I sat in Professor Maniquis' class for 10 weeks and filled an entire composition book, attempting to capture just the bullet points of what he said. He just stands at the front of the room and talks... for two hours straight. If you need presentations or chalkboard notes, this is not the professor for you. Sometimes his lectures seem tangential, and it's tempting to put down the pen, but he always brings it back around, and you will regret not having written down what he was saying, regardless of how tangential it seemed at the time. He can also come off as conceited and pedantic, but I gladly excuse minor coarseness of personality in light of the incredible amount of information he is capable of imparting. I would highly recommend him to anyone, but with the warning that you must be prepared to dedicate yourself to the class.
AD
Most Helpful Review
(I DID NOT TAKE ENGLISH 495E! THE COURSE I TOOK WITH HIM IS: GE CLUSTER 30 (Never ending stories)) Selling all of these books (individually or as a package) - these are pretty much all the books required for this class (there might be a couple more, I'm not sure) but yeah. They are all in new condition (paperbacks), barely touched, except for Sacred Narrative. That's a bit more used and has some highlights in it but it's in good condition. If you're thinking about taking the class and want to buy these or get pictures of the books for verification, contact me at *************. If you're living on the hill, I can also personally deliver any of these books to you before school starts (sometime between sept 25th-oct 2nd). BOOKS: Beowulf and Other Old English Poems ($6) The Aeneid (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) ($9) The Mabinogion (A new translation by Sioned Davies) ($10) The Epic of Gilgamesh ($7-$9) The Iliad of Homer ($7-$9) Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel ($20-$25) The Odyssey ($7-$10) The Heroic Ideal by M. Gregory Kendrick ($22-$25) The Sacred Narrative by Alan Dundes ($20-$25) A Writer's Reference (7th edition) by Diana ($60-$65) Hacker/Nancy Sommers On a side note: Nagy was a very informative professor, really knew his stuff. He's kind and open to helping students in office hours which is always a plus. Sometimes his lecture did get a bit boring but overall, he's pretty good!
(I DID NOT TAKE ENGLISH 495E! THE COURSE I TOOK WITH HIM IS: GE CLUSTER 30 (Never ending stories)) Selling all of these books (individually or as a package) - these are pretty much all the books required for this class (there might be a couple more, I'm not sure) but yeah. They are all in new condition (paperbacks), barely touched, except for Sacred Narrative. That's a bit more used and has some highlights in it but it's in good condition. If you're thinking about taking the class and want to buy these or get pictures of the books for verification, contact me at *************. If you're living on the hill, I can also personally deliver any of these books to you before school starts (sometime between sept 25th-oct 2nd). BOOKS: Beowulf and Other Old English Poems ($6) The Aeneid (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) ($9) The Mabinogion (A new translation by Sioned Davies) ($10) The Epic of Gilgamesh ($7-$9) The Iliad of Homer ($7-$9) Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel ($20-$25) The Odyssey ($7-$10) The Heroic Ideal by M. Gregory Kendrick ($22-$25) The Sacred Narrative by Alan Dundes ($20-$25) A Writer's Reference (7th edition) by Diana ($60-$65) Hacker/Nancy Sommers On a side note: Nagy was a very informative professor, really knew his stuff. He's kind and open to helping students in office hours which is always a plus. Sometimes his lecture did get a bit boring but overall, he's pretty good!
AD
1 of 1
