The Culture of Award Talk

Posted on by Richard Newton
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One of the things I love about the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama is our culture of student research. I have the pleasure of advising Sierra Ruden in our Religion in Culture MA program. Sierra has been using discourse analysis to examine the social function of award shows. Sierra's been experimenting … Continue reading The Culture of Award Talk

Teaching Starter: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

Posted on by Richard Newton

My penchant for backward course design impresses the need to consider method more and more. I'm asking myself what kind of work do I want students to be able to do by course's end. How will they know what they know?