cainteoir ([info]cainteoir) wrote,
@ 2008-05-27 20:35:00
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Need your thinking caps. . .
Feedback Please!
I proposed an international course to my department head, who loved my idea, but wants me to think of ways to offer the course as an internship rather than an elective -- apparently it would be too much of a pain to write up a new elective course description, but the internship is already written.

So, how can I spin two weeks of intensive Irish literature as an internship?

Ideas?
--K

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[info]cliosfolly
2008-05-28 01:07 am UTC (link)
Usually, in my experience, internships involve some sort of professional development work, in which one learns about a career by performing some of its work.

Would you want to have the class intersect with academic study as a career? This would perhaps entail figuring out a couple "professional development" experiences that students could legitimately participate in at whatever stage you're targeting. Are there any performances that might tie in, which your students could attend and then write (and perhaps explore what it takes to publish) reviews? What about compiling state-of-the-field annotated bibliographies? Is there some sort of project you could develop for which it would be useful to have student labor, and by providing such (plus maybe some discussion meetings hosted by you) they could learn more about what it is like to be a professor, through the lens of the class topic?

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[info]cainteoir
2008-05-28 12:11 pm UTC (link)
Good idea -- I could work something up where the students have to do an annotated bibliography, or some sort of project where they examine the impact of literature on a community -- I would be taking them to Sligo, Ireland, which has a whole little cottage industry centered around W.B. Yeats (well, at least it does two weeks out of the year.)

Thank you!
Much Karmic goodness heading your way!

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[info]lizzy2150
2008-05-28 02:53 am UTC (link)
DUDE!! This is FREE LABOR!!! Get them to act as research assistants for you!! Self-publish a collection of their work (Kinko's!) as a "journal" when it's done. Have them do the design work for it. Write the course up as an internship in literary studies with a publication component as the end result desired.

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[info]cainteoir
2008-05-28 12:14 pm UTC (link)
Love it! And I could get the LaCainteoir print shop to publish it -- they can do some professional work when pushed.

I like the idea of the Internship in Literary studies: They could interview professors, write short papers in response to the lectures/Seminars, and maybe even generate their own assignments. Then gather the entire thing as a collection so not only do they have something to take home, and take away from the experience, but they also provide me with something to put in the ever-necessary-expanding personelle file.

Thank you -- Much MUCH Karmic goodness heading your way!

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[info]cliosfolly
2008-05-28 12:17 pm UTC (link)
Also! This would be the subject matter for a fabulous article on pedagogy written by you afterwards!

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[info]cainteoir
2008-05-28 12:21 pm UTC (link)
Whooooo. . . . .
I think you just got me tenure.

What flavor of karma should I ask the universe to send your way?
(Note to self: Clio kicks ass. Am much afraid of getting on her bad side. Will work hard to make Clio like me.)

THANK YOU!

in a word. Squeeeeee!
--K

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[info]cliosfolly
2008-05-28 12:32 pm UTC (link)
I need dissertation-writing karma, if you have any to spare. And it would be great if the idea's helpful in any way. Yay for having tenure prospects!

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[info]lizzy2150
2008-05-29 05:32 am UTC (link)
OMG!! And with the whole taking-them-to-Ireland thing, you could do a "culture and literature" spin on the whole course, so that they'll be writing about not just the lit, but also how the lit and the culture influence each other.

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[info]imahobbit2
2008-05-28 04:38 pm UTC (link)
theres too much brilliance already in this posting... I have nothing to add but "damn you have smart friends" :)

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