Hello Scholars, Today we will meet with the librarian on Zoom at 9:30 a.m. using our usual Zoom address. I have passed along to the librarian the topics you shared in the Op-Ed Discussion Board. I will continue to grade your Interview Papers this week. If you are behind with any assignments,  please contact me as soon as possible. To confidently get a good grade for this class, you need to submit your assignments on time, and follow the instructions for each assignment. You are all capable of getting excellent grades in this class. I know that we all have …

Hello Scholars, Thank you for an excellent class today.  I am going to push all the feeder assignments for the Op-Ed Assignment forward a week to give you time to digest our library session scheduled for Monday October 5th. You will see this reflected in the Assignment later today. By Thursday October 1st at 5 p.m., please create a thread in the Op-Ed Discussion Board. Please post a response to at least one peer by Monday October 5th at 9 a.m. If you are behind with any other assignments, or have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me. The …

Hello Scholars, Due to today’s celebration of Yom Kippur, we will be meeting tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. on Zoom. The link is in Blackboard. Here’s what is due by tomorrow: Find two sources for the Op-Ed: one from the library, and one from another source of your choice. Please take a screen shot showing your research. We will go over using the library next week, so if you are having issues with this, don’t worry. Please write a short three paragraph reflection about your experiences so far with the Resume/Cover Letter and Interview Assignments. Please submit it to me in the space for Self-Reflection …

Hello Scholars, Thank you for your great participation in today’s class. Before Wednesday, please do the following: 1. Continue working on your Interview Assignment. Please make sure you have shared it with your interviewee and please give each other feedback before you submit your final draft. The final draft will be due on Blackboard on September 30th. 2. Please upload a photograph of yourself onto your zoom account. 3. Have another look at the Op-Ed Assignment, and please think about a possible topic you may want to write about. Please be ready to share this in Wednesday’s class. The recording …

Hello Scholars, Today we will have our first Portfolio Workshop in which you will build your online portfolio using WordPress within the Cuny Academic Commons website. The link for our Zoom class is in Blackboard. We will meet at 9:30 a.m. today, Wednesday September 16th. See you in class! Yolande

Hello All, Thank you for a great class. We spoke about the Course Learning Outcomes and how they will relate to your Final Self Reflection. I would recommend that you start by writing a mini reflection for each one of our assignments shortly after you finish them.  Here is the slide show including the Course Learning Outcomes Your first draft of the Interview Assignment is due on September 16th and the final draft is due on September 23rd. Next we will start working on the Op-Ed, which we’ll talk about next Monday September 23rd.  This Wednesday, we will do our Portfolio Workshop. For those of you who were …

Hello All, We will meet tomorrow in our Zoom classroom at 9:30 a.m. The link is in Blackboard. I plan to move our Portfolio Workshop to tomorrow so that you can start adding content to your portfolios as we work on our other assignments. Before we begin building our Portfolios, we’ll go over the Interview Assignment to see whether there are remaining questions before your rough draft is submitted. I also want to see how you did with your Accountability Groups. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. See you in class, Yolande

Hello All, For tomorrow’s class you will be working independently, and you will begin preliminary work for the Interview Assignment. I will be available on Zoom during our regular class session. I recommend you establish contact with your Interview Group Partner during the class hour, and if you have any issues, please pop into the Zoom session or email me to let me know how it’s going. Please read the following: Interview Tips (Good sample questions and good tips for organizing your information) Topics/Interview Types (In particular the first section which deals with types of interview and types of questions) Interview Presentation (Optional, this includes …

Hello All, Thank you to those of you who have completed your entries on the Introductions Discussion Board. Please remember that to get full marks for this you need to post your introduction and respond to at least one classmate before our class tomorrow at 9:30 a.m.  Please also remember to post a draft of your Resume/Cover Letter Assignment in the relevant Discussion Board before tomorrow’s class to get full marks for this part of the Assignment. Tomorrow, we’ll have a look at some of your comments and favorite reads from the Introduction Board, we’ll take any questions about the …

Hello Scholars! Welcome to Writing for the Humanities and Arts Fall 2020! In this course you will have the opportunity to explore writing genres including opinion pieces, interviews, creative nonfiction, and grant writing; and to create multimedia presentations of your ideas. All of the materials you need will be available here and on Blackboard.  In our first class on Wednesday August 26th at 9:30 a.m., we will meet on Zoom for an informal introduction to the class. You will meet some of your peers in small breakout rooms and we’ll talk about your expectations and hopes for this class. I’ll send an …