Teaching

Sample Syllabuses

Sample Assignments and Student Work

• Students conduct market research in an industry of their choice and propose a new product/service to fill a market void.

• Working in groups of three, students research and propose a re-design of an existing product complete with mock ups and technical specs.

• Students choose a Word of the Year nominee from the American Dialect Society‘s archives and write a profile analyzing its linguistic composition and cultural significance.

• Students profile a writer (or content creator) of their choice and explore their creative identity through an analysis of their published work.

• Students select a statistic of their choice to profile, analyzing the narratives constructed from the stat and debates about its calculation and interpretation.