Listen to Toronto Prof, Jordan Peterson. What he says is absolutely true (including the criticisms of current liberal arts/humanities teaching). And watch as many of his videos on YouTube as you can.
Category Archives: Education
Peter Pan and the Mother Lode, a 3-minute lecture.
Three Men in a Boat – latest 3-minute lecture on YouTube.
Here is my 3-minute lecture on Jerome K Jerome’s classic, Three Men in a Boat.
Professor John Drakakis (Stirling University) will be giving a talk on “Shakespeare, Reciprocation and Exchange” at the School of English and Journalism Research Seminar Wednesday 8th March 2017 (4.15 – 5.45) MB1010. All welcome.
Freedom Week 2017: a free week of tuition at Cambridge.
Freedom Week is an annual, one-week seminar which teaches students about classical liberal, free market, neoliberal and liberal perspectives on economics, politics, history and society. It is open to over-18s who are currently attending or about to start university. The week is entirely free to attend: there is no charge whatsoever for accommodation, food, tuition or materials. Freedom Week 2017 will be held from Monday the 3rd to Friday the 8th July.
More details here.
Freedom week is organised by The Adam Smith Institute.
A 3-minute lecture – An Air That Kills: A E Housman
Free online poetry course at Iowa.
The Course
How Writers Write Poetry, a six-week course beginning on June 28, 2014, is an interactive study of the practice of writing poetry. The course presents a curated collection of short, intimate talks on craft by two dozen acclaimed poets writing in English. Craft topics include sketching techniques, appropriation, meter, constraints, sound, mindfulness, and pleasure. The talks are designed for beginning poets just starting to put words on a page as well as for advanced poets looking for new entry points, thoughts about process, or teaching tips. The course will be taught by University of Iowa International Writing Program Director and poet/translator Christopher Merrill as well as Black Rainbow Editions Editor and poet Mary Hickman. Contributing poets’ video talks will be contextualized through online discussion and writing assignments. The Poetry Teaching Assistants (all Iowa Writers’ Workshop students or graduates with university level experience teaching creative writing) will join Mary Hickman in offering online poetry workshops to participants. (Please note: we can’t workshop everyone, but we will workshop a representative selection of participants’ work every week.) Poets who have contributed video craft talks for the course include former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, Kwame Dawes, Marvin Bell, Kiki Petrosino, Kate Greenstreet, and many others. How Writers Write Poetry will offer a diversity of answers to the question of how a writer develops and refines the lifelong practice of his or her craft. Enrollment in How Writers Write Poetry is free and unlimited.
Source/go to: How Writers Write Poetry.
Microlecture/podcast on Dracula as The Jew.
Excellent advice on managing your first year at university.
The change from school to university can be quite a shock as you move from a highly structured and directed environment to one in which you are expected to organise your own studies and rely on your own thinking to succeed.
Here is an excellent two-part video by Dr Owen Clayton on what to expect in your first year at university and how to manage:
Managing your expectations: some differences between further and higher education.
This, and other useful information, can be found at The English Faculty site.
Poetry reading by Andrew Mitchell, Wednesday 12, 12.15.
There will be a poetry reading taking place on Wednesday 12 February, 12.15-1pm in MB3202, by Andrew Mitchell.
Andrew will be reading from his recent work ‘Darwin: A Voyage of Ideas’ which explores the life of Charles Darwin. This may be of particular interest to those studying Edwardian Literature, Creative Writing, and MA in English Studies (Life Writing).
For more details on Andrew’s work, please see http://www.wordworthy.com/
All welcome.