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“Monsters and Monstrosity” Interview

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Myself and Andre Loiselle, who is in Film Studies, will be offering an ArtsOne cluster called “Monsters and Monstrosity” during the Fall 2012/Winter 2013 session. We were both interviewed on what we have planned for the cluster and our thoughts on monsters, horror and mass destruction.

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Academic “Integrity”

Monday, December 19, 2011

A few weeks ago, the report of the committee that oversees academic integrity investigations was submitted to the Senate. I’ve since lost the link to the report, but it doesn’t really matter. Of the 54 cases of plagiarism in the Faculty of Public Affairs, I personally reported 6 of them, which accounts for 11.1% of [...]

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Why Punish?

Thursday, December 8, 2011

The final reading of the semester for my first year students is an extract from Peter Moskos’s In Defence of Flogging. I’ve previously discussed the book here, but the basic argument is–more or less–prisons are ineffective at best and gross human rights violations at worse, thus they should not be used in the case of [...]

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Feminism

Sunday, December 4, 2011

I complain a lot about my students, but sometimes they do make me proud. Marking essays this weekend from my first year seminar (i.e., seventeen and eighteen year olds), a student–a boy–rightly complained that the course reading list did not include perspectives on power and violence from women or about women. He is absolutely correct. [...]

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“Monsters and Monstrosity”

Thursday, November 24, 2011

I routinely teach in a program called ArtsOne. The idea of ArtsOne is that first year students have a common schedule and take a number of courses on a particular topic or theme. For the past few years, I have taught in the “Criminal Matters” cluster, which, as the title suggests, is largely an introduction [...]

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Sarahgrunfelded!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Despite its exceptionally low-pay relative to qualifications, teaching isn’t that bad as far as jobs go: for the most part, I can choose the courses I want to teach, I can choose the topics I want to cover, I can choose the readings and assignments, and I can choose how to conduct the classroom. Few [...]

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My New Office!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

The offices in the Department of Law at Carleton University have been under construction all summer long. Work has ranged from removing asbestos to replacing sturdy cinder block walls with floor-to-ceiling glass walls. I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peak of the newly renovated contract instructors office. Let me tell you, it has [...]

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Draft Course Outlines (Fall 2011)

Friday, July 1, 2011

Should anyone be interested, I’ve posted my draft course outlines for Fall 2011. FYSM 1506R Topics in the Study of Societies: “Power & Violence” This seminar explores the relation between power and violence in modern and non-modern societies from a sociological perspective. The first semester is oriented towards developing theoretical and conceptual tools useful in [...]

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Teaching Evaluations (Fall 2010/Winter 2011)

Thursday, June 30, 2011

I received the written comments submitted by my students in FYSM 1506 Topics in the Study of Societies–”Power and Violence,” which is a two-semester long seminar for first year students. Carleton University uses what is perhaps the crudest of all forms of teaching evaluations: students are asked to answer thirteen questions on a scale of [...]

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Teaching 2011-2012

Monday, June 20, 2011

For those interested (such as the students who anonymously lurk in the background), I will be teaching the following courses in the 2011-2012 session: FYSM 1506Q Topics in the Study of Societies–the topic for this course will be “Power and Violence.” Enrolment is limited to first year students in the “Criminal Matters” ArtsOne cluster. LAWS [...]

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