Steven Mayers

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Dr. Steven Mayers City College of San Francisco Department of English Tel: (415) 452-4871, E-Mail:smayers@ccsf.edu Box: Batmale Hall 186, Office: Batmale Hall 368 Read some of my 1A students' oral history projects here:Imagining Home: CCSF Oral History Project Check out the English Department's literary journal, Forum:Forum Magazine Declare an English Major:English Major Earn a Certificate in Creative Writing: CCSF Creative Writing Spring 2021 *Note: Classes will not be meting in person, and will be held onnline on Cavas. English 35A."Introduction to Fiction Writing." Section 511. CRN: TBA.T 6:10-9pm. English 35B."Intermediate Fiction Writing." Section 511. CRN: TBA.T 6:10-9pm. English 35L."Intro. to Literary Magazine." Section 551. CRN: 32170. W 6:10-9:00pm. Take part in the production of our department's literary journal, Forum! English 35M."Intermediate Literary Magazine." Section 551. CRN: TBA. W 6:10-9:00pm. English 1A + 1AS.(Sign up for the two following courses): - English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section S19, CRN: 32405 , TR 12:10-2pm.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? - English 1AS. "English 1A Support." Section S19, 32624, TR 2:10-3pm. English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section 52, CRN: 32050, MW 2:10-4pm.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? Fall 2020 *Note: Classes will not be meting in person, and will be held onnline on Cavas. English 44B."Survey of World Literature: Early Modernto the Present." Section 1, CRN 79572, TR 9:40-10:55, Art 310. English 1A + 1AS.(Sign up for the two following courses): - English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section S13, CRN: 78731 , MW 12:10-2:00pm, Art 315.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? - English 1AS. "English 1A Support." Section S13, 78754, F 12:10:2:00pm, Art 315. English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section 92, CRN: 72858, TR 11:10am-1:00pm, HC 205.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? Spring 2020 English 35A."Introduction to Fiction Writing." Section 1. CRN: 31002. MW 11:10am-12:25pm, ARTX 263. English 35B."Intermediate Fiction Writing." Section 1. CRN: 31280. MW 11:10am-12:25pm, ARTX 263. English 1A + 1AS.(Sign up for the two following courses): - English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section S19, CRN: 32405 , TR 12:10-2:00pm, Cloud 229.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? - English 1AS. "English 1A Support." Section S10, 32624, TR 2:10-3:00pm, Cloud 229. English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section 52, CRN: 32050, MW 2:10-4:00pm, Art 310.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? Fall 2019 English 35L."Intro. to Literary Magazine." Section 551. CRN: 77629. W 6:10-9:00pm, Mission Campus (MIC) 469. Take part in the production of our department's literary journal, Forum! English 35M."Intermediate Literary Magazine." Section 551. CRN: 77804. W 6:10-9:00pm, Mission Campus (MIC) 469. English 1A + 1AS.This class is part of the Metro Transfer Academiesprogram.(Sign up for the two following courses): - English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section S10, CRN: 78731 , MW 12:10-2:00pm, Art 315.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? - English 1AS. "English 1A Support." Section S10, CRN: 78754, F 12:10-2:00pm, Art 315. English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section 78, CRN: 77982, TR 10:10am-12:00pm, Art 212.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? Spring 2019 Weekly Grammar Group.English Lab. Rosenberg Library 205. Mondays from 11am-12pm. (1/15-5/13) English 35A."Introduction to Fiction Writing." Section 1. CRN: 35252. MW 12:40-1:55pm, ARTX 263. English 35B."Intermediate Fiction Writing." Section 1. CRN: 36178. MW 12:40-1:55pm, ARTX 263. English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section 58, CRN: 38317, TR 8:10am-10:00pm, ArtX262.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section 84, CRN: 38321, TR 12:10am-2:00pm, HC205.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world?This section is partnered with the Writing Success Project(WSP)and has a dedicated tutor.Optional tutor-led study groups are offered by Arnie Warshaw on Tuesdays from 9:10-10:00am and on Thursdays from 2:10-3:00pm. Fall 2018 Weekly Grammar Group.English Lab. Rosenberg Library 205. Mondays from 3-4pm. (8/27-12/17) English 1B."Writing about Literature: Literature and Sight."Section 3. CRN 75602. MWF 9:10-10:00am, Art 212.Driving Question: How does literature affect the way wesee the self and the world? This section is partnered with the Writing Success Project(WSP)and has a dedicated tutor.Optional tutor-led study groups are offered by Arnie Warshaw on Mondaysfrom 11:00a.m. to 12:00p.m, and Wednesdays from 10:00 to 11:00a.m. English 1A."University Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile." Section 18, CRN: 70791, MW 10:10am-12:00pm, BNGL 714.Driving Question: How does moving affect our perceptions of the self and the world? English 88."College Reading and Writing: Media, Truth, and Democracy." Section 38, CRN: 77603. TR 11:10am-2pm, Batmale Hall 611.Driving Question: How do we stay informed in the era of "alternative facts?" This class is linked with the Embedded Tutoring Program (ETP)and has a dedicated tutor. Daclan Robb will be available to schedule one-on-one tutoring sessions. CCSF Courses I've Taught English 44B: Survey of World Literature Past and Present: 1650-Present.City College of San Francisco. This English class introduces students to a selection of some of the most impactful pieces of modern literature, and the historical context, through periods of Enlightenment, Neo-Classicism, Travel, Encounter, Colonization, Slavery, War, Resistance, Emancipation, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism. Read works by: Moliere, Voltaire, Locke, Kant, Jefferson, Rousseau, Pu Song-ling, Basho, Ramprasad Sen, Diderot, Swift, Goethe, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Wordsworth, Ghalib, Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Marx, Maupassant, Nietzsche, Zola, Equiano, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Kipling, Twain, Dickenson, Pirandello, Woolf, Kafka, Eliot, Kobo Abe, Borges, Neruda, Camus. The course will be centered on reading, analyzing and writing about short fiction, poetry, drama, and excerpts of longer fiction written between 1650 and the present, considering the historical circumstances that these texts grew out of and often respond to. As a literary survey course, as opposed to a composition course such as 1A, the largest bulk of the work is in reading and studying the texts, in order to respond in short answers and short essays on the midterm and final. We will be reading selections from a variety of genres and eras. English 35 L and M: Introduction to and Intermediate Literary Magazine. City College of San Francisco.This class will teach you the basics of producing a literary magazine and provide invaluable job experience in fields such as writing and publishing where it is often hard to get a foot in the door.You will gain experience in fields such as writing, editing, and copyediting, publishing, marketing, public relations, fundraising, and web publishing. The class will also focus on careful reading and written evaluations of literary and artistic works. English 35 A and B: Introduction to and Intermediate Fiction Writing. City College of San Francisco. A: In this introduction to the fundamentals of short story writing, students develop story writing skills by studying elements of fiction in published works, engaging in writing exercises, and learning to participate in a workshop. B: In this intermediate fiction workshop, students expand their skills writing, reading, and critiquing short stories, as well as share their writing with peers in a workshop setting. UC/CSU English 1C: Advanced Composition. City College of San Francisco: Rethinking Public Education.City College of San Francisco. An advanced composition course that integrates critical thinking skills with the close-reading of non-fiction and the writing of expository and argumentative essays, honing a style appropriate for upper division college work. Focus on sharpening critical thinking skills, analyzing and evaluating texts, and writing text-based prose (CCSF). As English 1C prepares students for upper division writing, the course is centered on reading strategies, critical analysis, argument, and the accurate summarization and in-depth analysis of longer complex texts. In response to readings by Horace Mann, John Dewey, and others, the first essay sets out to define the term public education, and argue what the creators of U.S. public education had in mind. The second essay responds to Diane Ravitch s 2010 book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, and uses causal analysis to follow the process by which U.S. public schools have moved towards choice, testing and market-based educational reform. The third essay responds to Pasi Sahlberg s 2011 book Finnish Lessons, and proposes reform in the U.S. public education based on Finland s system. The fourth and fifth essays respond to the ongoing canon wars, and respond to Allan Bloom s The Closing of the American Mind and Lawrence Levine s The Opening of the American Mind. In the past, the course was centered on the theme Nature and Civilization. The first essay was concerned with defining the term nature, based on readings by Charles Darwin, Gary Snyder, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and excerpts from the Book of Genesis. The second essay was concerned with the causal analysis of three processes in which man has taken on nature in military fashion, based on John McPhee s The Control of Nature. The third essay was concerned with evaluation, and will be based on Joseph Stiglitz s analysis of the IMF and the WTO s roll in developing countries, Globalization and its Discontents. The final essay was concerned with proposing a solution to an issue, based on Allan Bloom s criticism of American education in The Closing of the American Mind. English 1B: Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking About Literature. City College of San Francisco. A second-semester college reading and composition centered on critical thinking and literary analysis. Through reading and analyzing short stories, poems, plays and novels, students learn critical literary terms and the ability to analyze and criticize literature from a variety of perspectives. The semester starts with an analysis of short fiction by authors including William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Carver, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, and Franz Kafka, and then move on to the analysis of poems, by poets such as W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Gwendolyn Brookes, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich and Natasha Thethewey. We then analyze works of drama, usually beginning with an ancient Greek play by Sophocles or Euripides, and moving into Shakespearen drama such as Othello, Hamlet and The Tempest. We finish off by analyzing a novel; we've read novels such as Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, and Anthony Doer's All the Light We Cannot See. English 961A: Intensive University-Level Reading and Composition: Writing From Exile.City College of San Francisco.An intensive course in the accelerated pathway offered through the English Department. This six-unit course merges English 96 and English 1A in one semester.This course consists of intensive university-level reading, writing and critical thinking based on a study of the driving question: Writing from Exile: How does moving affect our perceptions of the world and of ourselves? We read and respond to three books on forced immigration Helen Thorpe s Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, Aviva Chomsky s They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths About Immigration, and a collection of narratives by undocumented immigrants in the United States published by San Francisco s Voice of Witness entitled Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives. English 1A: University-Parallel-Reading and Composition: Writing from Exile. City College of San Francisco. A university-level freshman composition course centered on reading and writing nonfiction and mastering essay types. We focus on writing essays that utilize multiple illustrative types as well as complex arguments, using the argumentative models of Aristotle, Stephen Toulmin and Carl Rogers. The class is focused on critical analysis of complex texts, and I have chosen exile and identity as a theme that runs throughout the readings, as the writers we read often discuss their critical perspectives on their homelands and concept of home. We have read texts such as Jose Antonio Vargas' Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Lauren Markham's Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, Isabel Allende s My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile, Octavio Paz s The Labyrinth of Solitude, James Alan McPherson s A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile, Nuha Al-Radi s Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile, Edward Said s Out of Place: A Memoir, Amin Maalouf's In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong, Helen Thorpe's Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, Lauren Markham's The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Dream,Aviva Chomsky's "They Take Our Jobs": and 20 Other Myths About Immigration, and Peter Orner s Underground America, published by San Francisco publisher Voice of Witness. The final research paper is an oral history in which each student interviews an immigrant in the United States, using oral history training by San Francisco s Voice of Witness, an organization and publisher dedicated to oral history. English 96: Academic Writing and Reading: Writing in the New World Era. City College of San Francisco: Emphasis is placed on critical reading of expository prose and imaginative literature as well as on writing essays, with attention to developing a variety of techniques in paragraph and sentence construction for the creation of a college writing style. In the readings we focus on central issues in the contemporary world. Students choose their own topics for research essays based on various themes. One essay focuses on politics and language, another focuses on globalization and free trade, another on women's issues, and another on the environment. The readings for the course draw on writers such as Annie Dillard, Malcolm X, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia M rquez, Octavio Paz, M rio Vargas Llosa, Amy Tan, Edward Said, and Jamaica Kincaid, Amayarta Sen, Kofi Anan, Henry Louise Gates Jr., Anthony Giddens, Benjamin Barber, and Ellen Goodman. English 93: Introduction to Academic Writing and Reading: Images, Public Space, and Writing. City College of San Francisco: The first semester of Academic Writing and Reading focusing on expository and argumentative writing. The course is centered on the themes: media, youth, schooling, public space, work, history and postcolonialism. One essay is a comparative rhetorical analysis of four newspaper articles on the same topic; another is a process-analysis essay analyzing how TV news is created and delivered; another describes and analyzes advertisements. We read Diana George and John Trimbur s Reading Culture, and Steve Powers and Neil Postman s How to Read T.V. News, as well as pieces by James Baldwin, Gloria Naylor, Juan Williams, Roland Barthes, and Mike Davis; class reading is predominantly non-fiction. I ve also taught English 93 through the African American Achievement Program, with a focus on African American themes. I give the course the subtitle African American Arts and Identity. The main textbook for the course is Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West s The African American Century, which is a celebration of the contributions African Americans have made to the nation throughout the 20th century. The first essay is focused on visionaries, the second on visual artists, the third on music and the fourth on literature. English 92: Basic Reading and Writing II. City College of San Francisco: In the second semester of Basic Reading and Writing, we focus on reading skills, and learn how to write an academic essay. From sentences to paragraphs to arguments, we build essays step by step, responding to readings in Integrations: Reading, Thinking, and Writing for College Success, on engaging issues such as the First Amendment as it relates to prayer at school events, and the motives of Abraham Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation. Students learn to construct sentences according to the sentence types, along with clauses and phrases that serve to bring in extra information. Furthermore, students learn to build well-constructed paragraphs, and formulate clear arguments. English 26: The Study and Use of English Grammar. City College of San Francisco. This one-semester course is an intensive study of English Grammar. The major text, English Fundamentals, covers all major aspects of English grammar, from syntactical structures to restrictive and non-restrictive modifying clauses and phrases, to verb tenses, to punctuation. Though the course is designed to prepare students to serve as grammar tutors, most students take the course in order to improve their grammar and writing. The students are tested with a series of quizzes, tests, and exams.

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