BA/MAT 3
+ 2 Program
The
BA/MAT 3+2 program is
designed to offer Bard undergraduates a path to a Master of Arts in Teaching
and New York State grades 7-12 Teacher Certification in biology, history,
literature or mathematics within five years of their entering college. By
following this path, undergraduates receive advisement, engage in work with
adolescents, and take courses that prepare them for the MAT program while they
remain focused on the studies of their major. The following courses are open to
MAT 3+2 candidates and others as space allows. If you have
questions about these courses or the MAT 3+2, contact [email protected].
92119 |
MAT ED151 PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE: SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND
EDUCATIONAL ISSUES IN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT |
Rachel Cavell Mary Leoanrd |
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6:00pm-7:15pm |
OLIN 204 |
|
Time: Seven Tuesdays between 6:00-7:15pm
(8/30; 9/6; 9/20; 10/4; 10/25; 11/15; 12/6) and three Saturdays between
9:00am-12:30pm (9/3; 10/22; 11/5). There will also be one required day in which
you will be teaching ninth graders from the Rhinebeck High School, scheduled
for Friday from 9:00-2:00 (9/30).
Credits:
2 This course is designed for Bard
undergraduates who are working in one of the college’s many educational
outreach programs and who are committed to the idea of social engagement.
Throughout this course we will delve into issues of educational theory, and we
will consider and analyze the various inter-personal, cultural, social and
ethical issues that arise in the context of our civic engagement. In particular, we will consider:
·
What
are our personal and professional aspirations as tutors, mentors and leaders in
civic engagement?
·
What
systemic or other changes might we like to see in our civic engagement and how
might we best go about making or advocating for them?
·
How
can we improve our own communication skills so that we become better and more
skillful listeners and responders?
What are the potential problems and
challenges we may face in the context of supporting someone’s learning?
Throughout this course we will emphasize
writing as a means of engaging with our content, and we will workshop and
critique problems that you may experience and encounter in your outreach
work. This course is required for all
junior-year MAT 3+2 students, and it is recommended for tutors and mentors in
all TLS education programs. It will be graded pass/fail and carries two credits
(non-distributional).
Class
Size:
22
91817 |
LIT 3522 The Empire Writes Back |
Derek Furr |
Th 6:00 pm-8:20
pm |
RKC 101 |
ELIT |
In this course, we will explore how major
works in the English literary tradition have inspired and troubled 20th
century writers outside of England, and how these writers adapted, revised or
deconstructed them. We will examine how the expatriate writer and the writer
under colonialism developed a poetics of place that was at once imaginary and
true to “home.” While we will focus on how later works relate to earlier, we
will also look for connections between a work and its socio-historical context.
Three essential questions will provide
points of departure for our explorations:
1.
How
have canonical English texts and traditions factored into the writing and
thinking of 20th century Anglophone and expatriate writers?
2.
What
is the relationship among language, power, and literary forms?
3.
How
does place—real and idealized—shape the style and aesthetic of a writer?
We will read works by such authors as Kamau Brathwaite, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, Daniel Defoe, Gayatri Spivak, Chinua Achebe,
Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney. Assignments will include three papers that
respond to the essential questions and, for MAT students, an annotated
bibliography of critical sources and a review of curriculum materials. Class
size: 18
92016 |
HIST 341 Education in
Colonial Africa: theory, memoir, fiction |
Wendy
Urban-Mead |
Th 4:40 pm-7:00 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HIST DIFF |
Cross-listed: Africana
Studies What
might provide a vivid window into the multiple layers of consciousness, types
of identities, and the fractured and unpredictable loyalties of Africans under
colonial rule? Schools anywhere are
sites bristling with these variegated exercises of power and shaping of
consciousness --all the more so for schooling in colonial Africa. This advanced
seminar engages key texts on theories of empire together with African-authored
memoirs and works of fiction that prominently feature the experience of
education. Some additional reading from
a selection of analytical monographs will help students to place and
contextualize the memoirs and novels. Class size: 15
92122 |
MATH 303 COMPUTATIONAL
GEOMETRY |
Mary Krembs |
M 4:40 pm – 7:00 pm |
HEG
308 |
MATC |
(2-credits,
first half of the semester) This course will
investigate the classic problems in computational geometry. Computational
geometry is a branch of mathematics and computer science devoted to the study
of algorithms and the appropriate data structures to solve geometric problems
on (often large) data sets. We will primarily be focused on combinatorial
computational geometry, also called algorithmic geometry. Topics may include Voronoi Diagrams, convex hull calculations, line segment
intersections and more. Prerequisites: MATH 213 (Linear Algebra and
Ordinary Differential Equations), Math 241 (Vector Calculus), some programming
knowledge, and either MATH 261 (Proofs and Fundamentals) or CMSC 201 (Data
Structures) or permission of the instructor. Class size:
16
92123 |
MATH 325 GEOMETRY |
Mary Krembs |
M 4:40 pm – 7:00 pm |
HEG
308 |
MATC |
(2
credits, second half of the semester) This
course will sample topics from the geometry of the plane, with a primary
emphasis on the synthetic approach to Euclidean geometry; other approaches (for
example, vector methods) and other types of geometry (for example, hyperbolic
or projective geometry) will be treated time permitting. Core topics in
Euclidean geometry include axioms, metrics, congruence, similarity, polygons,
triangles and circles. Prerequisites: MATH 213 (Linear Algebra and
Ordinary Differential Equations) and MATH 261 (Proofs and Fundamentals), or
permission of the instructor. Class size: 16