Teaching the Literature Survey Course

James Lang shares about teaching the Literature Survey course on episode 210 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

What do we expect, in terms of breadth of knowledge within a discipline, and how do you get students to learn that?
—James Lang

Deep learning is when students create connections between the course material and their own lives.
—James Lang

Where are the opportunities in my syllabus for students to make their voices heard?
—James Lang

• ‘Teaching the Literature Survey Course’ – Editors discuss the way a key teaching role has evolved — and should evolve, by Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Ed
• Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty — Edited by Gwynn Dujardin, James M. Lang, and John A. Staunton
• Team-based Learning with Jim Sibley on episode 73
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) (Vol. 1) Ninth Edition by M. H. Abrams*
• The Blank Syllabus by Chris Walsh
• Carnegie Melon Eberly Center