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Led by award-winning scholar-teachers, this speaker series offers practical and inspiring one-hour sessions on today’s urgent challenges in the field, such as enrollment growth, inclusive and equitable curricula, and the relevance and value of the liberal arts.
Dave Monahan
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Join in for a lively conversation as author Dave Monahan takes us behind the scenes of the new Eighth Edition of Looking at Movies. Dave will offer his unique perspective as a professor, filmmaker, director, and the "auteur" behind the book and its accompanying media.
There will be time for audience questions and everyone who registers will receive the recording.
Photo Credit: Dave Monahan.
Emily Frankenberger
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Join Norton Philosophy specialist Emily Frankenberger for a demonstration of how InQuizitive, Norton's easy-to-use adaptive learning tool, supports busy students as they read Doing Ethics, 7th Edition by Lewis Vaughn. You can expect to see how each InQuizitive activity--one for every chapter, including the moral issues chapters--helps students retain key concepts and come to class better-prepared for discussions. Emily will provide a full overview of the features that make InQuizitive fun and effective while holding students accountable for their reading and providing insightful reports for instructors.
Mary Dwyer and Emily Frankengerger (Norton Philosophy) in conversation with Kristin Borgwald (Miami Dade College)
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Mary Dwyer and Emily Frankenberger of Norton's Philosophy team are joined by Kristin Borgwald of Miami Dade college for a presentation on how InQuizitive for Doing Ethics, 7th Edition by Lewis Vaughn can be an indispensable tool for supporting busy students. You can expect:
• An overview of InQuizitive adaptive learning tool, and how it supports every chapter of Lewis Vaughn's Doing Ethics--including the moral issues chapters.
• A presentation by Kristin Borgwald on how she implements InQuizitive into her classes, and the positive results she has seen with her population of working students.
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"Creating (or Re-Creating) Final Assignments" Hosted by Cathy Day, Ball State University Are the writing assignments in your courses feeling stale? Have you been thinking about how artificial intelligence will impact the culminating projects you assign to students? Watch this webinar with Small Teaching author James Lang to discover pathways for creating or re-creating final assignments in any humanities course. We consider strategies for developing new audiences for final assignments, asking students to re-mix previously written work, or drawing out the distinctive nature of each student’s voice in their academic research. |
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"Helping English Majors Pivot from College to Career." Hosted by Cathy Day, Ball State University This workshop emphasizes how faculty members have an important role to play in professionalizing English majors, and shares best practices for maintaining strong English enrollments and aiding in graduates' success. |
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This workshop explores the complex and sometimes incendiary ways that three contemporary poets have depicted race, racism, and their own identity formation. |
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In this online event, Martin Puchner discusses reimagining the English Department as a center of world literature—with practical steps that departments and faculty members can take to effect this transformation. |
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"Teaching Challenging Poems: Race, Appropriation and the Elegy with Paisley Rekdal |
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Mrs. Dalloway with Anne Fernald An exploration of why this work has endured and Q&A with Anne Fernald, editor of The Norton Library volume and Norton Critical Edition. |
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Crime and Punishment with Michael R. Katz An exploration of why this work has endured and Q&A with Michael R. Katz, translator of The Norton Library volume and Norton Critical Edition. |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with Simon Armitage An exploration of why this work has endured and Q&A with Simon Armitage, translator of The Norton Library volume. |
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The Great Gatsby with Andrew Newman An exploration of why this work has endured and Q&A with Andrew Newman, contributor to the Norton Critical Edition. |
"Technophilosophy Today" Hosted by Lewis Vaughn and David Chalmers
In this webinar, Lewis Vaughn and David Chalmers will explore the philosophical and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR).
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"COVID-19: What Are the Ethical Issues?" Hosted by Jonathan Wolff This talk focuses on how moral philosophy can be applied to issues such as leadership in a pandemic, medical supply scarcity, personal responsibility, and vaccination. |
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"Religious Literacy." Hosted by Stephen Prothero with Joe Laycock and Natasha Mikles This workshop covers the AAR Religious Literacy Guidelines and how Norton resources can be used in your World Religions course in small ways to align with the guidelines. |
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Image Credits: (Line and Dots) iStockPhoto.com/Ani_Ka; (Puchner photo) Johannes Marburg; (Rekdal photo) Austen Diamond; (Day photo) Gail Werner
