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When I taught literature and writing classes at a private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, faculty members were invited to create programs for the reason for the existence of their most important. Our Vice-President of time (it was an incredible turn-over to the president and vice president of this college) seemed to be seriously * Education and directed the ability to answer specific questions about the meaning of what we did.Since the program was the coordinator of the English (a communications program is at the Department of Philosophy of media, including literature, philosophy, religion, language, film studies), provided that answers me I felt stressed the importance what we did.
However, I believe that these issues are important for a program in English, either standing separately as a single department in a large university or as part of the division of humanities at a small college.I taught writing and literature in two private universities, two community schools, and a large university in the United States. Time is not, despite the current interest in technology and fashion, eroded the importance of concentration in writing, literature, language and studies. This belief, so I let my students in a two-level Technological University, Anshan, China congratulate – and in Ningbo, China, on a three-level Technological University, which is associated with a level at a university Hangzhou – for a degree in English literature and for taking courses. The reasons why I did so, you can find answers to the questions below me. I, if necessary, generalized responses on a scale that is more global.
A. When students complete a program of language and literature, will be able to do what?
Before these students can see that all literature, as> Art is not created in a vacuum, but reflects the culture and times in which it was created. Consequently, not only to recognize them, but the importance of the ability to thought and ideas in a comprehensible form to communicate, I know that the messages of the authors' and feelings are understood and appreciated for centuries show.
According These students will be able to write in a scientific manner on important issues that exist not only today, but have existed for centuries, from before the time speakthe time of Homer to the present. You will be able to argue effectively, because you will learn how to research the opinion with which they have learned to cite and document correctly. You will learn to communicate clearly and effectively so that their ideas are not lost or ignored at will.
Third These students will be able to carry out research in many areas because they are the right methods of research, documentation, they learned, and the inclusionThe results of research work. Those who study literature creative writing will be able to own, to create them, which is courageous and important, because dig deep and includes the design into something 'art did not exist before.
B. Why study with students as a professor?
Students should first study how a professor with me if they have a thirst for knowledge and interest in expanding their horizons, which is whatEducation must be round.
According Students should not fall in the appearance of learning, only the superficial rhetoric, but rather should be aware that the hard work required to bear the costs is captured, and take responsibility for their education. You should be aware that education is about lifelong learning and life skills, that there is more than just training and that is not finished.
Third If students study writing with me, they shouldready, the possibility that the letter and the publication of a difficult, painful process is a face, and that requires creative writing in digging the suffering of pain and our memories, Because that is usually the source of the energy needed to be creative. It is a regrettable but necessary part of the creative process, and this is not only honest but also a lot of courage.
C. Because students study program in English language and literature? [O Department of Foreign AffairsLanguages]
Students must first study in a program of English language and literature, it is of paramount importance, especially in areas of the world where writing skills are Said to be the weakest, who are able to communicate clearly, correctly and effectively to level of intelligent students, and finally, the level of graduates who are able, with graduates of universities globally competitive. They recognize the importance of globallanguage or vocabulary to communicate with.
Should the second is for literature and language to literature clear That reflects the times, customs and philosophies of the authors – which may be the object of his life as varied as the multiple points of daily life, Which is not connected, like a talk-show topics between covers, but as a serious analysis of the aspirations and human weaknesses.
Third would recognize and appreciate the extent ofContributions of literary figures as William Shakespeare, who used words together or with unrecognized genius, either before or after his time, whose vocabulary was the largest of all known English writer and his first folio of his works were all English speaking, more new words than any other single source **. With this recognition and appreciation, would hopefully provide a bridge between the past and the future so that the monumental achievements of the past are not lost in the splendorGlitter and a technology that remains in service of a transient, materialistic world, but retained as the basis for a future full of aesthetic and intellectual resources.
"One of the most important developments in contemporary culture worldwide, the arrival of Western literary criticism and literary theory in China." This statement is overtures by WJT Mitchell in his preface to a textbook of Chinese criticism of literature, "forChina by foreign language teaching and Research Press – a text for seniors are now in research methodology in Ningbo. He added: "There is probably no greater force production of understanding among the peoples as the transmission of literary traditions – the great legacy of storytelling, poetry, prose and forms that give cultures their distinctive character." Therefore, I believe more than half of the literature courses are required in some universities in China, not just aEnglish literature and a half of the U.S., but two semesters of each. More importantly, in all fields of study, students should be exposed to mythology and world literature. When I taught writing in Anshan, I had two semesters of CRAM literature of information and little snippets from the primary one semester. I complained, without success. I tried to change the textbooks, but was not allowed to do so. This was when I was naiveI think that students get to visit the university education. Many students here in Ningbo I am like a teacher seriously. As I often joke in class, I thought they did not lack a sense of humor. You see, I had assumed that all teachers, education or foreign national (Chinese), were serious in school. Guys, I am naïve.
When I got a student a small college in Illinois (my home state or, asI like to call, God's Country), I heard that our teacher, a university degree should have a birth certificate. I never forgot his comment. What I like is recommended, so today is that universities on both sides of the Pacific, who are more interested in maximizing profits, with a real education – teachers who keep taking intellectual standards – intimidated by this simple Step one: Delete all course work for students seeking toDownload the student and / or their parents besieged enrollment for the equivalent of four years of teaching, and hand them a diploma. No excuses. No claim false. Then, as universities are seriously interested in training students with real rules, the best teachers and the school recruits only the students who rent real serious. . . really. . . desire to learn for the sake of knowledge. Then knowledge. . . not only the virtues. . . is his reward.
So much of the literature,and so much of life, mythology is based on the foundations of the world and the greatest geniuses of literature, the word of the powerful have produced. This is what it means to be educated in the interests of educated, trained not only for employment. Once we accept this, we return to what education and teaching of literature should really be about.
We can therefore seriously.
* These "heavy vice president admitted students who failed the latestCourses (one male had four courses in our English department and a woman not only had two of me) go to the end of the scene, because, as admitted by the Faculty of days later in a meeting, it was their parents intimidated.
** [See THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN: 3rd Edition Revised
Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil
New York: Penguin Book, 2002]