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Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Seminars Offered Between 1978-1984

1978

• "Language and Writing"
  Led by James A. Winn, Associate Professor of English
• "20th Century Afro-American Culture"
  Led by Charles T. Davis, Professor of Afro-American Studies and English
• "20th Century American History and Literature"
  Led by Henry A. Turner, Professor of History and Master of Davenport College; Richard W. Fox, Assistant Professor of History; and Cynthia E. Russett, Lecturer of History
• "Colonial American History and Material Culture"
  Led by Marni Sandweiss, Teaching Assistant in History

1979

• "The Stranger and Modern Fiction: A Portrait in Black and White"
  Led by Michael G. Cooke, Professor of English
• "Themes in Twentieth Century American Culture"
  Led by Jean-Christophe Agnew, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History
• "Remarkable City: Industrial New Haven and the Nation, 1800-1900"
  Led by Howard R. Lamar, Dean of Yale College and William Robertson Coe Professor of American History
• "Language and Writing"
  Led by Thomas R. Whitaker, Professor and Chairman of English
• "Strategies for Teaching Literature"
  Led by James A. Winn, Associate Professor of English
• "Natural History and Biology"
  Led by Alvin Novick, Associate Professor of Biology

1980

• "Adolescence and Narrative: Strategies for Teaching Fiction"
  Led by Ross C. Murfin, Assistant Professor of English
• "Art, Artifacts, and Material Culture"
  Led by Jules D. Prown, Professor of History of Art
• "Drama"
  Led by Thomas R. Whitaker, Professor and Chairman of English
• "Language and Writing"
  Led by James A. Winn, Associate Professor of English
• "Man and the Environment"
  Led by Richard S. Miller, Oastler Professor of Wildlife Ecology of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology
• "The Present as History"
  Led by Jean-Christophe Agnew, Assistant Professor of History
• "Problem Solving"
  Led by Robert F. Szczarba, Professor and Chairman of Mathematics

1981

• "The `City' in American Literature and Culture"
  Led by Alan Trachtenberg, Professor and Chairman of American Studies and Professor of English
• "An Interdisciplinary Approach to British Studies"
  Led by Robin W. Winks, Master of Berkeley College and Professor of History
• "Human Sexuality and Human Society"
  Led by Helen Block Lewis, Professor (Adjunct) of Psychology and Thomas E. Brown, Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion
• "Writing Across the Curriculum"
  Led by Joseph W. Gordon, Assistant Professor of English
• "The Human Environment: Energy"
  Led by Richard S. Miller, Oastler Professor of Wildlife Ecology of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology
• "Computing"
  Led by William R. Bennett, Jr., Master of Silliman College, C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, and Professor of Physics

1982

• "Autobiography"
  Led by Richard H. Brodhead, Associate Professor of English
• "The Constitution in American History and American Life"
  Led by Robert M. Cover, Professor of Law
• "Human Fetal Development"
  Led by Maurice J. Mahoney, M.D., Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology
• "Society and the Detective Novel"
  Led by Robin W. Winks, Master of Berkeley College and Professor of History
• "The Changing American Family: Historical and Comparative Perspectives"
  Led by Harold W. Scheffler, Professor of Anthropology
• "Society and Literature in Latin America"
  Led by Nicol‡s Shumway, Assistant Professor of Spanish
• "An Unstable World: The West in Decline?"
  Led by Robin W. Winks, Master of Berkeley College and Professor of History

1983

• "Medical Imaging"
  Led by Dr. Ronald C. Ablow, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Pediatrics
• "Elements of Architecture"
  Led by Kent C. Bloomer, Professor of Architectural Design
• "Cross-Cultural Variation in Children and Families"
  Led by William Kessen Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Professor of Pediatrics
• "Reading the Twentieth Century Short Story"
  Led by James A. Snead, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
• "Greek and Roman Mythology"
  Led by William G. Thalmann, Associate Professor of Classics, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Directed Studies, Special Programs in Humanities
• "America in the Sixties:Culture and Counter-Culture"
  Led by Robert Westbrook, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History
• "Drama"
  Led by Thomas R. Whitaker, Professor and Chairman of English

1984

• "Greek Civilization"
  Led by Victor Bers, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Classics
• "Elements of Architecture, Part II"
  Led by Kent C. Bloomer, Professor of Architectural Design
• "The Oral Tradition"
  Led by Michael G. Cooke, Professor of English
• "Geology and the Industrial History of Connecticut"
  Led by Robert B. Gordon, Professor of Geophysics and Applied Mechanics
• "American Adolescents in the Public Eye"
  Led by William Kessen, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Professor of Pediatrics
• "Hispanic Minorities in the United States"
  Led by Nicolás Shumway, Assistant Professor of Spanish

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