Learning and Teaching Center (Old)

Tuesday, February 17:

Multiple Intelligences: Students’ Perspectives

Alumni Guest House

LTC Student Advisory Panel, moderated by Larry Wichlinski, Associate Professor of Psychology

Drew Dara-Abrams, '05, Student Panel organizer, Special Major, Cognitive Studies

Susannah Lewis, '05, Psychology

Katie Thompson Newell, '05, History

Dustin Yager, '06, undecided

Videotape of this presentation available from the LTC, Willis 207.

MONDAY, February 16

The LTC After Ten Years: Where have we been? And where do we go from here?

Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching panel of past coordinators:

Peter Frederick, Professor of History, Wabash College

Frank Morral, Professor of English

John Ramsay, Professor of Educational Studies

Susan Singer, Professor of Biology

Introduction by Elizabeth McKinsey, Professor of English and American Studies,

Dean of the College, 1988-2002

Videotape of this presentation available from the LTC, Willis 207.

Tuesday, February 10

Conversing at the Crossroads: How Does Culture Affect Pedagogy?

A faculty panel, with introduction by Scott Bierman

Associate Dean of the College

Paula Arai, Assistant Professor of Religion

Naran Bilik, Bernstein Visiting Professor of Anthropology

Jim Fisher, Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology

Lance McCready, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies

Joel Weisberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Tuesday, February 3

Elizabeth W. Kotz

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

University of Minnesota

Carol Donelan, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, explains, “What Liz is ‘rethinking’ is the notion of ‘expanded cinema’ as articulated by Gene Youngblood in his book Expanded Cinema (1971), copies of which are available here: http://artscilab.org/expandedcinema.html This was an enormously influential book in film studies and art history.

Videotape of this presentation available from the LTC, Willis 207.

Tuesday, January 27

Faculty Scholarship Forum

The Sound of Japanese: A Sabbatical’s Report

Michael Flynn, Professor of Linguistics

Introduction by Shelby Boardman, Dean of the College

An Interdisciplinary Revolution: Remaking the Liberal Arts Curriculum,

a faculty panel co-sponsored and moderated by Dana Strand, David and Marion Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of French and the Humanities and the Mellon Faculty Lifecycles grant, coordinated by the LTC. Panelists are

Tricia Ferrett, Professor of Chemistry

Susan Jaret McKinstry, Helen F. Lewis Professor of English

Helena Kaufman, Director of Off-Campus Studies

Alfred Montero, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Diethelm Prowe, Laird Bell Professor of History

The panel was a follow-up to the December 2003 Mellon Faculty Lifecycles workshop on interdisciplinarity. Participants shared some of the suggestions that surfaced during the workshop for improving the way we handle interdisciplinary study at Carleton. Videotape available from the LTC, Willis 207.

Revisionist Thinking, a presentation by Bush Visiting Writing Scholar, Richard Lanham, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles.

Lanham's website: http://rhetoricainc.com

Co-sponsored by the English Department and the College Writing Program

Revising Prose, Richard Lanham's video with exercises, is available from the LTC library.

Revising Prose, along with the Exercies for Revising Prose. They may be borrowed from the LTC library, Willis 207.

To order Lanham's video see his website or send check to:

Rhetorica, Inc. 927 Bluegrass Lane, Los Angeles CA 90049

Enclose a check for $52.00 to cover the purchase of a copy of Revising Prose($35), postage and handling ($5), and a copy of Exercises for Revising Prose ($12 with video purchase).

A presentation by Lawrence Wichlinski, Associate Professor of Psychology with responses by Christine Lac, Lecturer in French, and Ronald Rodman, Associate Professor of Music. Readings available in the LTC. Videotaped copy of this presentation available through the LTC, Willis 207.

Faculty members and librarians from five Mellon Information Literacy grant departments discussed their disciplinary and interdisciplinary experiences with how information is organized and used.

Four articles will be posted on-line at the Center for Scholarship and Teaching website: http://www.macalester.edu/cst/projects.html. We each agreed to read at least two for discussion.

Readings:
Ong, "Introduction" to Flexible Citizenship
To be introduced at the next meeting by Sonita Sarker and Kevin Murphy

Grewal and Kaplan, "Global Identities: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality"
Introduced by Lance McCready and Scott Morgensen

Rodriguez, "A Note of Caution to the Reader" in Queer Latinidad
Introduced by Maria Elena Cepeda and Rod Ferguson

Moya and Garcia, "Introduction" to Reclaiming Identity
Introduced by Khaldoun Samman and Cindy Wu

Scientific Literacy: What it is, Why we don't have it, How we can get it

Moore is a Professor of Physics, Pomona College, and author of Six Ideas That Shaped Physics. His experiences with this work provide insight into curricular reform across the college curriculum. View the slides of his November 4, 2003, presentation at Carleton. A videotape of this presentation is available from the LTC, Willis 207