by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 4, 2020 | College Classes, Reading Well, Teaching and Academic Design, Video
This challenge may be impossible… As a student, I discovered that some professors are great lecturers: they will tell students everything they need to know about the reading in class! In fact, for someone like Kant, a good lecture might be far more...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Apr 25, 2020 | New Ideas and Research, Teaching and Academic Design
Before COVID-19, I started reading about design thinking because Jamie Turner shared an article about design thinking in K-12 classrooms. What I discovered shocked me…it was….EXACTLY WHAT WE DO IN THE LIBERAL ARTS CLASSROOM. Seriously. “Design” as a way of...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 24, 2018 | Teaching and Academic Design
We all know that Higher Education’s dependence on adjunct labor is bad. Clearly, the labor conditions for adjuncts are a problem. Despite having PhD’s many adjuncts make between $20k-30k a year with no benefits. Adjuncts are also bad for institutions. Because...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 10, 2018 | College Classes, News, Teaching and Academic Design
Earlier this month, Joey the Spotted Turtle was adopted by EmNet! After bringing Joey into the world as a class project, my Environmental Literature class is very excited to see Joey go to a good home where he’ll be cared for and loved, and see their College project...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Aug 15, 2018 | Teaching and Academic Design
This summer I was tasked with re-imagining the Communication Major at Holy Cross College. The nature of the Communication Major has been unclear for a number of years. In the past, it focused largely on film and cultural studies, but lacked courses on the technical...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | May 21, 2018 | College Classes, Teaching and Academic Design
For my “Literature and the Environment” class (spring 2018), I tasked my students with a highly open-ended project. As a class community, they needed to develop a body of writing that would raise awareness about the St. Joesph River and encourage our local community...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Mar 5, 2018 | News, Teaching and Academic Design
On February 19th it started raining…and raining…and raining…and raining. Northern Indiana had over six inches in rain in some places. While that’s a fair bit of rain, the situation was exacerbated by about a two-foot snow pack and frozen ground. With the tremendous...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 18, 2017 | News, Teaching and Academic Design
After a few months of work on the part of myself, Tyler Gardner, Dan Murphy, and Br. George Klawaitter, the proposal for the new English major at Holy Cross College is finally complete and off to committee! The new major offers four tracks, a traditional English...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jun 1, 2017 | College Classes, Teaching and Academic Design
During the 2016-2017 academic year, I had the privilege of being a visiting assistant professor at Wheaton College. The Wheaton English department has been home to some of the finest Christian scholars of literature. Men I’ve long respected for their work, like Clyde...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Mar 26, 2014 | Teaching and Academic Design
The digital humanities, technology in the classroom, ebooks — words that strike fear in many a literary traditionalist, at times myself included! But new technologies are rapidly changing the way we read and learn about literature. As teachers, finding ways to use...
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