UMass Amherst

DBC Instructor Orientation - January 21, 2009,
504 Goodell

Attendance

All Dean's Book Course instructors are expected to attend the fall and spring orientation sessions.

Please arrive at 9:45 so we can begin promplty at 10:00.

The schedule is subject to change.

Agenda

  • 10:00 Special guest visit! and rubric discussion, time permitting.
    10:45 Brion reviews handout updates and copying procedure
    11:00 Sarah Spence from the Citizen Scholars Program
    11:10 Full-group discussion of book
    11:50 Supplementary materials discussion
    12:00 Break
    12:10 Emily Alling from the Library
    12:30 Haivan Hoang from the Writing Center

 

 Terror in the Name of God jacket

The Fall 2008 Selection
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Primate's Memoir jacket
The Spring 2009 Selection
Monique and the Mango Rains
by Kris Holloway