The College Lecture Today

Lee Trepanier is professor of political science at Saginaw Valley State University, and editor of the Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film and the academic website VoegelinView.

Preface
Lee Trepanier
Introduction: The College Lecture Today
Lee Trepanier

Chapter 1: Observed Trends in Lecturing and the Relationship to Student Retention
Brendon Westler and Eric Michael French
Chapter 2: A Voice in the Dark: The Art History Lecture
Emily Kelley
Chapter 3: Teaching Writing in Literature Lecture Courses
Taryn Okuma
Chapter 4: Decentering the Lecture as Responding to Material and Historical Changes
Elizabeth Rich
Chapter 5: Discourse on Lecture Comprehension in the 21st Century Classroom: Teaching with an Awareness of the Cultural Construction of Language
Monika Dix
Chapter 6: The Continuing Value of Lecture in History Education
Hyrum Lewis
Chapter 7: What Lectures Do Well: History Lectures as an Intermediate Pedagogy
Caroline R. Sherman
Chapter 8: Lecturing and Media Studies in the 21st-Century
Karen P. Burke
Chapter 9: Campfire, Curator, Deejay: Lectures & ‘Lectronic Enhancement
Mike Mosher
Chapter 10: The Lecture in Political Science Education: Unpacking a Paradox
John Craig
Chapter 11: The Lecture in Political Philosophy and Political Science
Lee Trepanier
Chapter 12: The Music Lecture as Gestalt
Jamie Fiste
Chapter 13: The Religious Lecture: Synthesizing Persona and Narrative Immersion
Paul Krause
Chapter 14: Creating a Socratic Lecture Space in Religious Studies
Paul Corey
Chapter 15: Curious Lectures and Engaged Students: Teaching in a Context of Bureaucracy and
Consumerism
Warren Fincher

Index
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