Écriture Féminine as Curriculum : This seminar explores how écriture féminine places experience before language, and privileges the non-linear, cyclical writing so often frowned upon by Western patriarchal societies. Autobiographical narratives of learning and teaching as well as texts from Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva constitute the basis of this seminar.

Curriculum Theory : Curriculum as a field of study is both complex and diverse with multiple perspectives and approaches. This course will examine the field by looking at curriculum not as a technical document, but as a social process. The course will introduce various theoretical discourses in the field of curriculum (including pragmatist, feminist, poststructural, political, postmodern, phenomenological) and the representative works of several influential curriculum theorists (Dewey, Tyler, Freire, Apple). Students are expected to acquire a working knowledge of contemporary curriculum thought, its historical antecedents, and be able to articulate a position, however temporary, where they find themselves within the field.

Current Trends in Education Literature: Popular Culture and Pedagogy in the 21st Century: Popular culture continues to be a presence in the classroom—influencing curriculum, questioning traditional subject matter, transforming pedagogical practices, and inspiring new educational scholarship. This class will explore the current trends in educational literature which concern the intersections of popular culture and pedagogy. Course readings will come from Joe Kincheloe, William Pinar, Greg Dimitriadis, Douglas Kellner, Henry Giroux, Margaret Mackey and William Reynolds.