How much of this do you all change each time you teach a course?

I don’t know about the others, but I do a pretty deep rethinking of my materials, within pretty hard boundaries, each semester. I’ve taught Anth 101 some 30-odd times as of this semester, and will have taught WMST 113 6 times when the school year ends in May. As an adjunct, I am given the school’s selection of texts to work within for these classes — the “hard boundaries” above — but my choice of readings, presentation, and order is my own. One thing I’ve tried to do this semester is focus more in Anth 101 on the ethnographic material I can glean from my reader — in the past, I’ve focused more on contemporary issues and gender. In Women’s Studies, we’ve adopted a new edition of the work, necessitating a new approach — in the past I’ve done a couple weeks on race, a couple on gender, a couple on class, and then gone back through the cycle; this semester, I’m teaching them more together to highlight the ties between them.

On the other hand, I don’t change essay topics much — these seem to work for me and I get pretty good papers out of them.

Also, like Strong, I too was inspired by ck’s syllabus design to move beyond Times New Roman this semester — I’ve been using my syllabus to finally learn to use the copy of InDesign I’ve had sitting on my PC since I worked in publishing some 5 years ago.

And thanks to Amelia — I’m actually trying to promote being offended as a primary social scientific tool, so I’m glad that’s coming across.

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