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Lead Teachers Needed
Faculty and PhD-level graduate students are encouraged to be lead teachers for the Spring semester.  You will be paired with a first-year GTA in an ENGL 1120 course.  Contact George Crandell if you are interested. 

Potential Tech Workshops
The College of Liberal Arts would like to offer one or two workshops at the beginning of the winter break. As in previous years, such workshops would run over 2-3 half days with (probably) a small stipend. The following three options have been proposed as potential workshops, but you are encouraged to give Wiebke Kuhn input so that she can start organizing the right workshop(s) that will meet your needs.

1. PowerPoint (introduction and/or more advanced stuff like adding charts and graphs, audio and video files, animation)
2. Web Design (introduction into Frontpage, how to create a web page, a web site, hyperlinks, navigation, how to add images and other elements, and other items of interest that come up)
3. The ultimate WebCT crash course (setting up a WebCT course, adding material to it, getting to know a number of features such as Quiz, Content Module, Communication features)

Each of these workshops would assume that you have a particular course or teaching project in mind that you would like to work on. Once we have decided what workshops we will offer, we will ask for (very) short proposals from those of you who are interested in participating. 

Please send responses by Thursday, October 17, to kuhnwi1@auburn.edu.

Rod Smith Reading at Pebble Hill
The Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Southern Humanities Review are sponsoring a reading by Rod Smith, poet, short story writer, and editor of Shenandoah on October 24 , 4:00 pm, at Pebble Hill. Until 1995, Rod was a member of the Auburn English Department, where he was Alumni Writer in Residence and co-editor of the SHR.

English Hour: Teaching Early Modern Drama in GB
The English Hour kicked off its fall season with presentations by Dan Szechi, History, and Scott Phillips, Theatre, on the history, society, and theatres of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.  Interesting and thoughtful, the presentations provided a solid background for the topics of the next English Hour.

The next English Hour will be on October 21 at 4:00 p.m. in HC 3104.  Alex Dunlop, Craig Bertolet, and James Truman will discuss Teaching Early Modern Drama in specific plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.  All are encouraged to attend!


Southern Gothic Dinner
The annual Southern Gothic Dinner will be Wed, October 30th at 7:00 at Pebble Hill. Faculty are invited to join the English majors for Southern food and ghost stories. To that end, please volunteer your culinary talents. Side dishes are needed, with Southern dishes especially welcome.  

Last year some faculty children came to this event and wore their Halloween costumes. Everyone seemed to enjoy this; children are welcome at the dinner from 7:00-9:00. (Ghost stories begin at 9:00 and are genuinely creepy.)  Alicia Carroll will work on getting a sitter if there is demand and parents would like to contribute. Please let Alicia Carroll know as soon as you can if you are coming, and what you will bring in light of food or children.

Listen to the Sounds of the String Quartet 

On Wednesday 30 October the Artis String Quartet from Vienna, Austria will be performing at 7:30 in the Goodwin Recital Hall on campus.  This concert is sponsored by the Auburn Chamber Music Society as the first of its series of three concerts for the 2002-2003 season.  The program will feature Mozart's F Major String Quartet (K. 590), Schumann's A minor String Quartet (Op. 41#1), and Brahms's A minor String Quartet (Op. 51 #2).  Tickets are $20 apiece, or you can obtain a season ticket for all three concerts at $50.  Admission is free for all students.  A reception for the quartet at Greystone Manor to which all audience members are invited immediately follows the concert.  For tickets or more information, please contact Craig Bertolet, who serves as co-president of the society.

EGO Meeting
EGO will meet today at 3:00 p.m. in the Eagle's Nest North.  It's your chance to inflate your EGO!  Check your box for more details.    

Good Luck to our MAs
All the best to Jessica Abernathy, Malissa Dunn, Anna Head, Jerry Hinnen, Derek Kittle, Amy Locklear, Kristen Miller, Amy Qualls, Janice Ussery, and Annie West as they take their MA comps next week.  

Scheduling for Spring
Beginning Friday graduate students can schedule for the Spring semester.  Click here for the graduate course listings and descriptions.  

Lead Teachers Needed
PhD level graduate students are encouraged to be lead teachers for the Spring semester.  You will be paired with a first-year GTA in an ENGL 1120 course.  Contact George Crandell if you are interested. 

Scheduling for Spring
Undergraduates can click here for complete English course listings and descriptions.  See your advisor for more information.

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