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♦ Go here for TRAINING, CONSULTING & SPEAKING.
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Teaching outdoors many years ago…
For SUBJECT AREAS go to:
◊ Teaching DIVERSITY
◊ Teaching WRITING
—and Professional Writing
◊ Teaching SOCIAL CHANGE
NOTICES FOR STUDENTS
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Read “The Neighbor Project Highlighted as Rick Guzman Receives Award from NIU Law.”
CURRENT COURSES
No courses at this time.
> See COURSE MATERIALS below for details on all of Dr. Guzman’s courses.
COURSE MATERIALS for Major Courses:
—Links go live when material becomes available.—
Writing
- Style (ENG 265) / View syllabus; E.B. White: one paragraph; See student papers; Read Adrienne Rich on Emily Dickinson; From Guzman: watch a video series on Ray Charles, read “Miscegenation and Me“
- Creative Writing (ENG 275)
- Advanced Writing (ENG 315) / View syllabus; Read articles; From Guzman: watch a video series on Ray Charles
- Professional and Grant Writing (see Grad Courses below)
Literature
- Sacred Texts as Literature (ENG 390) / View syllabus; Read posts
- Multicultural Literature (ENG 330) / View syllabus; Read posts, including “Miscegenation and Me“; Watch a video series on Ray Charles
- Global Literature (ENG 380) / View syllabus/ Read posts on World Writers
- Critical Methods (ENG 201 and 350) / View 201 syllabus
- Introduction to Literature (ENG 196) / View syllabus / Analysis outlines: Intrinsic, Extrinsic
- The Long 18th Century (ENG 204) / View syllabus / Read Introduction / Read posts on World Writers.
Graduate Courses
- Leadership for Social Change (MLD 683) / Go to Social Change page; View Syllabus; Watch Syllabus Overview video; Read posts; See project examples
- Race, Ethnicity & the American Experience (MLS 632) / View syllabus; Read posts
- The “Third World” (MLS 634) / View syllabus; Read posts
- Professional and Grant Writing (ENG 455-MLS 555)
IDS 125* and Other Special Seminars
*First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminars
- Film and Social Change (IDS 125) / View syllabus; View top 5-5 film lists—Spring ’12, Spring’13, Spring’14, Winter’17 ; See working teams; Read Invisible Children “escape flyers“
- Reading the Movies: Literature into Film (ENG 125) / View syllabus; Go to movie reviews on this site
- Images of America in Music (IDS 125) /
- Jazz and Culture
- Creativity
Urban-Suburban Studies
- Introduction to Urban and Suburban Studies / View syllabus
- Leadership and Place / View syllabus
♦ ON-LINE PROJECTS AND EXERCISES
Arts and Culture:
- Understanding The Battle of Algiers
- Ray Charles and Musical Hybrids (sample project)
- Native Americans project
- Bollywood and Pop
- The Godfather project
Writing:
- Abstracts & Executive Summaries
- “Lean” and Varied Prose – Exercise 1
- “Lean” and Varied Prose – Exercise 2
- Varying Sentence Lengths and Patterns – Part 1
- Varying Sentence Lengths and Patterns – Part 2
- Editing Poetry 1
- Proposal Forms Project
Social Change and Diversity:
- Muhammad Yunus Online Project
- Frantz Fanon Introduction
- Said-Bourdain and Imperialism
- Economics, Politics, and The “Third World”
- Saul Alinsky Online Project
- Yunus-Alinsky Notes & Questions
Course Reading/Writing Supplements