...or at least what I think is inevitable: the six-week summer term, which starts 6/16. At the moment, the two courses I'm slated for have alarmingly low enrollments, so I'm trying to prep some but with the possibility of plan B.
Every semester I resolve to scrap my current schedule/layout and revamp, and every time I never budget enough time to re-think my way through it. American Lit. II, which I've done many times before, would benefit from a genre- or theme-based approach, but if it makes, chances are I'll substitute a few readings and keep the chronological format largely the same. If I don't revamp it, I should at least reduce the number of readings and concentrate more fully on certain authors and/or trends/movements. I already do a bit of that with the Harlem Renasissance, and I think it's the best time of the semester. Maybe a unit on realism/naturalism, one on feminist/protest writing...
My dream course forever has been titled "The American Dream," and I could definitely restructure Am. Lit. around that motif. But with only four students enrolled at this writing, I'm not gonna push it.
Comp. I has eight enrolled at this writing, which is a bit surprising--but maybe we overestimated how many summer students we'd have. I theorize that one reason is our fucked-up summer term structure, different yet again from the summer before. We have one eight-week term and one six-week term, and that's it. There's no longer a "first half" and "second half," and I believe students can't take as many classes now.
Anyway, I'm cautiously optimistic Comp will make, and not at all that Am. Lit. will. The word from on high is not to worry comma yet.
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