Summer Classes for Westwood's Denver South Campus

For the May term at Westwood's Denver South campus, I'll be teaching two sections of HUM 300, which is an overview of the humanities. One section is a blended class, and the other is completely on campus. It will be interesting to compare the two.

5Cs Conference

Friday I went to the 5Cs Conference at Aims Community College in Greeley. The weather forecast promised 10 or more inches of snow, but we didn't get any. The speaker and sessions at the conference were interesting, but the best part was talking to other writing instructors.

Technical Writing Textbook

I've selected the textbook for my hybrid technical writing class this fall at Red Rocks. It's a new book published by Pearson-Prentice Hall. The title is Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century, and it was written by Sidney I. Dobrin, Christopher J. Keller, and Christian R. Weisser.

Humanities Class for Fall

As of Thursday, I'm scheduled to teach a humanities class at Red Rocks this fall:

HUM 121, Survey of Humanities I--Introduces students to the history of ideas that have defined cultures through a study of the visual arts, literature, drama, music, and philosophy. It emphasizes connections among the arts, values, and diverse cultures, including European and non-European, from the Ancient world to 1000 C.E.

The textbook for the course is Vol. I of The Humanistic Tradition (fth ed.) by Gloria K. Fiero. It's published by McGraw Hill.

Textbook for Developmental Classes

I've decided to use the newest edition of Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond for my developmental classes this summer and fall. I have to have my book order for the summer semester in tomorrow, and I'm waiting to hear back what the ISBN would be to include the access code for Houghton Mifflin's WriteSpace with the textbook. I hope I get it in time. If not, it's my own fault for waiting so long to contact the publisher.